A French military team pushes bodies towards a mass grave at the Kimbumba refugee camp near Goma, Zaire, Aug. 1, 1994. Cholera and other diseases were killing thousands of Rwandan refugees who fled to ...

KIGEME Camp (Nyamagabe District): In 2012-2013, Rwanda received a sudden influx of over 35,000 refugees from the eastern DRC. As a result, UNHCR and the Rwandan Government opened Kigeme camp in ...

(CNN)-- A former Rwandan official was sentenced to 30 years in jail for his role in the death of "thousands of Tutsi refugees" in country's 1994 genocide, a court announced Monday. Callixte ...

[File, VOA] Rwandan President Paul Kagame threatened to evict thousands of Congolese refugees living in Rwanda if the international community continues to blame his country for the conflict in the ...

For ten long years, there was little to do; no land to farm meant no way to earn a living. But in 2022, everything changed: Gatsibo District set aside marshland for agriculture to benefit refugees ...

Citing the case of Rwandan Jean-Paul Akayesu, International Criminal Court (ICC) assistant to counsel Kristina Conti said a ...

In the early 1980s, a group of Rwandan refugees from various refugee camps and other local setups in Uganda joined St Edwards College Bukumi, a Christian brothers' secondary school located in the ...

but many were refugees and non-combatant Congolese in North and South Kivu, in eastern DRC. Methods of warfare were brutal, especially those employed by Rwandan soldiers and Tutsi groups.

I have worked with a lot of refugee communities in East and Central Africa: Somali and Sudanese refugees in Kenya, Burundi and Rwandan refugees in Tanzania; as well as Sudanese in Chad.

It's a sea of makeshift bamboo shelters, home to more than one million Rohingya refugees - a mainly Muslim minority from Rakhine state in Myanmar. Some 700,000 fled their homeland back in 2017 ...