Basirice Uwamariya, founder of the Kakira Imigongo Cooperative in eastern Kirehe district, told AFP she started making art when she was 15. But the 1994 genocide targeting the Tutsi minority nearly ...

But in the sense, these discarded fragments have been reborn as something far greater and that is a towering silverback gorilla sculpture titled “Renaissance.” The gorilla standing with clenched fists ...

KIGALI - On sketch pads or computer tablets, a group of young Rwandan artists painstakingly recreate portraits of victims of the 1994 genocide for their loved ones. The illustrators -- like the ...

His three photography-based installations are entitled “The Silence: the Rwanda Project 1994-2000.” They stem from Jaar’s experiences in Rwanda during the genocide of 1994 and on subsequent ...

A New Mainer Rediscovers a Traditional Rwandan Art Form. And she hopes it will change lives in her home country. ... pyramidal lid. A symbol of a plentiful harvest, peace baskets got their modern ...

KIGALI, Rwanda — Rwanda is preparing to mark the 30th anniversary of the East African nation's most horrific period in history — the genocide against its minority Tutsi.

LONDON -- The UN’s International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) has officially concluded after 29 years, the Office of the Prosecutor has announced. It comes as the last two fugitives ...

Rwanda report said France bears responsibility for ‘enabling’ the 1994 genocide. The 600-page report says that France “did nothing to stop” the massacres, in April and May 1994, and in the ...

Art student Manzi Yvan Bryan, 19, said the experience was invaluable in finding out more about the events of 1994. "When I was a child we learned about the genocide at school, and sometimes at ...

A 200-year-old Tutsi art form made with cow dung, Rwanda's imigongo painting tradition has experienced a revival in the Great Lakes nation three decades after the 1994 genocide, becoming a symbol ...