UNAMIR: A Mission Betrayed by Political IndifferenceMajor General Romeo Dallaire Commander of the United Nations Assistance Mission for Rwanda (UNAMIR), meets with some peacekeepers in 1994. Internet.

Opinions How RPA's Kinihira attack led to a demilitarised zone wished by UNAMIR Rwanda Patriotic Army fighters during the Liberation War in Rwanda in 1990s. Courtesy ...

In 1994, ten Belgian peacekeepers were sacrificed on the altar of a new-age idea, that the military — originally designed to break things and kill people — was something else altogether. The soldiers ...

Kofi Annan’s death in August reignited a long-running debate about the Rwandan genocide and intervention. Annan’s time as the head of the Department of Peacekeeping Operations during the Rwandan ...

Kigali — It was Uganda against Rwanda or on a broader level the United States against France, played out like Fashoda 100 years earlier in one of the poorest nations on earth. Throughout November and ...

Kofi Annan, the first U.N. secretary general from sub-Saharan Africa, died Saturday after a short illness. Annan, a career U.N. diplomat, served as secretary general from 1997 to 2006 and received the ...

Like children’s fairy tales, foreign policy myths are created, told and retold for a purpose. The Boy Who Cried Wolf imparts a life lesson while entertaining your five year-old niece. Unfortunately ...

Walter Dorn receives a salary and funding from the Department of National Defence. In one hundred days an estimated 600,000 to 800,000 Rwandans were killed. The Tutsi were targeted primarily due to ...

It is hard to grow up without a father, but it is even more difficult when you do not know who your father is, and the chances of finding him or even his family are not just slim, but also ...

In this episode, we realised in the last piece how, in 1993, proper negotiations started immediately after the Prime Minister Dismad Nsengiyaremye accepted the essential demands of RPF/RPA. President ...