The East African nation has been unearthing such graves from a past that includes massacres along ethnic lines.

While Rwanda is remembered for the 1994 genocide, John Hearne looks at how the country has made strides under Paul Kagame, a president not without his share of controversy

IN THE rocky backstreets of Goma lies a small compound where some of the most dangerous but wretched children in the Congo play and sleep.

A group of junior army officers who attempted a coup to oppose Burundi President Pierre Buyoya’s negotiations with Hutu rebels surrendered today, the defence ministry said.