A soldier from the armed forces of the DRC on foot patrol in the village of Manzalaho near Beni. Alexis Huguet / AFP via Getty Images For this reason, I set out to rethink the ongoing conflict in ...
Most of us might be accustomed to the 1994 Rwandan genocide popularized by the Hollywood movie Hotel Rwanda in which the shooting down of President Juvenal Habyarimana’s plane was used as a signal to ...
At the height of the Vietnam War in the fall of 1969, President Richard Nixon deployed the "madman theory," a political strategy built on projecting irrationality to force adversaries into negotiation ...
Since 1996, conflict in eastern DRC has led to approximately six million deaths. The First Congo War (1996–1997) began in the wake of the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, during which ethnic Hutu extremists ...
Trigger warning: this article contains accounts of sexual violence. The 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi led to the murder of more than 800,000 people, an estimated 70% of the country's Tutsi ...
The simmering tension as result of the conflict between Borana and Gabra communities is gradually mutating into a deadly affair. The conflict is no longer the regular pastoralist fight over natural ...
A Burundian diplomat has acknowledged that discrimination against Tutsi communities still exists in Burundi. Fred Gateretse Ngoga, a senior adviser on international partnerships and regional security ...
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How RPF stopped the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi

The Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) stopped the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi by launching a strategic military campaign against the genocidal regime on April 7, 1994. RPF troops advanced from the east ...