This is a summary of what was said by UNHCR spokesperson – to whom quoted text may be attributed – at today's press briefing at the Palais des Nations in Geneva. 20 September 2002 UNHCR is gravely ...

Residents living along the shores of Lake Kivu in central Africa have always appreciated – and feared – its power. In Swahili, the word mazuku, or “evil wind,” refers to pockets of deadly, odorless ...

Skulls of people who died during the 1994 Rwandan genocide are arranged and locked outside the St. Pierre Catholic Church, in Kibuye, Karongo city center, Karongi distric COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Norway ...

STORY: A former Rwandan police officer accused of ordering the killing of some 2,000 Tutsis during the 1994 genocide appeared briefly in a South African court on Friday (March 26). Fulgence Kayishema ...

A special tribunal established by the UN, known as the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals (IRMCT), announced Thursday that fugitive Fulgence Kayishema has been arrested in Paarl, ...

GasMeth Energy Ltd has invested an additional $170 million into its flagship methane extraction and processing project on ...

Family photographs of some of those who died hang on display in an exhibition at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Kigali, Rwanda. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File) PARIS (CN) — The month-long trial of a ...

Kisumu City Manager Abala Wanga and his deputy Charles Omollo declaring closure of Kibuye market due to public health concerns. [Michael Mute, Standard] Governor Anyang Nyong'o's administration has ...

LAKE KIVU, Rwanda (Reuters) - Rwandans blame the "demons" of Lake Kivu for the deaths of fisherman and others who have occasionally disappeared on one of Africa's great expanses of water in the heart ...

A total of 277 Rwandans returning from eastern DR Congo, a region ravaged by conflicts for decades, crossed Grande Barrière Border Post in Rubavu District on Tuesday, October 21, hopeful to find ...