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BUGESERA, Rwanda (AP) — Anastasie Nyirabashyitsi and Jeanette Mukabyagaju think of each other as dear friends. The women’s friendship was cemented one day in 2007, when Mukabyagaju, going ...
The group was started in 2004 to bring Hutu and Tutsi women together in a safe space after the 1994 genocide. Christine Musabyemariya (center) enjoys herself during a rehearsal.
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The racial purity delusion: From bedfellows to butchers - MSNThey weren’t praising Hutu women for their humanity, intelligence, or individuality. No, they were reducing them to reproductive machines and loyalty tokens.
How women are stepping up to remake Rwanda. Tragedy and necessity lead to leadership opportunities that once seemed unimaginable. The challenge now: to make them last.
Fourteen years after Hutu extremists killed between 800,000 and 1 million people -- mostly Tutsis -- in a devastating slaughter, Rwandan women are weaving peace baskets for sale at Macy's in the ...
Remembering Rwandans Who Followed Their Conscience : Parallels "I would do it again and again and again," says one Hutu woman who defied orders and sheltered Tutsis during the 1994 genocide ...
30 years ago, this Rwandan woman saved a dozen neighbors from the genocide Josephine Dusabimana's story of being a helper, though those she helped worried for her safety. A Hutu, she was nearby ...
June 25, 2004 -- In her gaily printed dresses and steel-rimmed glasses, a gold crucifix often dangling prominently from her neck, she looked more a stately African schoolmarm than a woman charged ...
It has been 25 years since the Rwandan genocide, when Hutu extremists murdered at least 800,000 Tutsis over the course of 100 days. Women, men, infants, and children were assaulted with grenades ...
Nkurunziza is a former Hutu rebel who became president 2005 after Burundi’s last civil war and has ruled ever since. Last year, there was a failed coup d’etat, which has driven the President ...
A federal judge has sentenced a New Hampshire woman to the maximum sentence of 10 years in prison for lying about her role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide to obtain U.S. citizenship.
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