Rather than two separate tribes, Hutu and Tutsi are different ethnic groups of the same society. The Tutsi migrated from the Horn of Africa in the area of Ethiopia to the Lake Victoria region of ...

The nation’s Tutsi president handed power to a leader from the Hutu tribe in a power-sharing arrangement designed to end bloodshed. President Pierre Buyoya stepped down for Vice President ...

A witness in the "Media Trial" today told judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) that the Hutu and the Tutsi should not be considered only as tribes but as social classes.

So asking if I am Hutu or Tutsi is irrelevant because it doesn’t explain my “origin” that you want to understand. Rwandans—regardless of being historically labeled Hutu, Tutsi, or Twa ...

The ritual pays respects and condolences not only to the Tutsi people lost, but to the Hutu as well. The last time Gato saw the ritual was in 2005, before he left to come to the United States.

BURUNDI'S president has warned his country is on the brink of collapse, blaming Hutu ``fanatics'', the Tutsi minority and the army for widespread… ...

It was laced with a bitterness I had not yet encountered during my time in Rwanda. “Naturally, Tutsi and Hutu are not the same in their hearts,” he continued. “You will see. We are not the same.

Rwanda’s Tutsi kings ruled over Hutu peasant farmers for three centuries. But in 1959, the Hutu finally overthrew the Tutsi monarchy. From then until President Juvenal Habyarimana’s dea… ...