Rwanda

Sex workers in capital Kigali terrified after serial killer goes on murder spree, gouging out eyes of many victims.

Cathal Gilbert finds out that South Africa is far from the promised land for refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Oxfam calls for protection of civilians on top of agenda for the regional summit to be held in Uganda.

Rebel assaults on Democratic Republic of Congo towns of Lubiriha and Kasindi drive refugees over Ugandan border.

European metals dealer hits back at the hacking collective and denies trading in materials from wartorn DR Congo.

Anonymous claims metals trader Traxys ignoring its own guidelines not to buy from war zones as business in precious minerals goes on.

While much has been said about the Syrian conflict growing increasingly sectarian, little is known about the Alawites sect, that controls Syria through the Assad family and which remains shrouded in mystery.

Draft law softens legal stance against abortion but civil society organisations say it does not go far enough and want full decriminalisation.

Former Rwandan youth minister sentenced to life in prison by UN tribunal for his role in 1994 genocide of Tutsis.

Thirteen officers involved in mutiny sentenced for uprising in east of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Pair believed to be part of human trafficking ring that sends women to Asia to be forced into prostitution.

Polaroid chairman under fire after hacking collective reveals fawning comments to Syrian dictator and promises support.

At least 26 people have been killed in renewed attacks by a Rwandan militia group operating in Eastern DR Congo, the Congolese army said.

France's bid to criminalise denial of the 1915 Armenian genocide has passed through its first legal hurdle when a large majority in the National Assembly - the lower house of parliament - voted in favour of the bill.

UN-backed war crimes tribunal for Rwanda sentences two former ruling party bosses seen as key organisers of 1994 genocide to life terms.

A leading Rwandan journalist and editor was gunned down in Kampala, where he was living as a political refuge.

A new research from the Migration Watch reveals that more than 90 percent of immigrants to the UK live in England making it the most crowded nation after Bangladesh, Taiwan, South Korea, Lebanon and Rwanda.

Delegates will meet Sunday and Monday to discuss the impacts of climate change on vulnerable countries.

France and Rwanda have been in a diplomatic row surrounding the Rwandan Genocide of 1994 for years as Paris refused to apologise for its role in the genocide, denying any involvement.

Somalia is close to famine, causing over a 1,000 people a day to travel over the border into Kenya and Ethiopia, according to the United Nations.

A former Rwandan minister became the first woman to be convicted of genocide when she and her son were given life sentences for war crimes in the 1994 genocide.

"Can a criminal tribunal for Yugoslavia which ignores pervasive violence by the U.S. and diverts public awareness from United States conduct and legitimatizes by silent acceptance aerial and missile assaults on civilians and illegal weapons use against one country after another, making its repetition expected before it occurs, contribute to the hope for the rule of law, justice or peace?"

Over 100 days in 1994, after the assassination of President Juvenal Habyarimana the 6th April 1994, Rwanda's Hutu majority led by the government carried out the organized slaughter of the country's Tutsi minority and any Hutus who sympathized with them, killing an estimated 800 000 people in the space of three months. In July of the same year, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) finally managed to gain hold of the country and the killings started to decrease.

The imposition of a no-fly zone in Libya has succeeded in one thing at least: it has enforced a stalemate onto what was seemingly the opening moves of the Libyan civil war.