In the last article in this serialised narrative, we saw how, at the beginning of the liberation struggle, President Habyarimana requested France to help a French-speaking country that had been ...

Somehow, Habyarimana’s body ended up in Congo, where then-President Mobutu Sese Seko, a longtime friend, kept it on the grounds of his jungle palace. In 1997, a day before his overthrow by RPF ...

The 225-page report leaked to Le Monde places the entire blame for the missile attack on President Habyarimana’s plane on current Rwandan President Paul Kagame. That attack was surely one of the ...

The report details at length how openly the Habyarimana assassination plot was spoken about in the months before his death; at one point, it notes that President Mobutu Sese Seko of neighboring ...

The question of the assassination of President Habyarimana is politically explosive. If it was established that Mr Kagame was responsible, the moral, if not legal, implications would be devastating.

The President of Zambia served for about 1,131 days before dying in 2014 in a London hospital, with his deteriorating health concealed by officials, and the exact cause of death never fully clarified.

For 100 days in 1994, Rwanda experienced one of the worst genocides of the 20th century. More than 800,000 Tutsis were killed, primarily by their neighbors. NPR's Jason Beaubien.

Habyarimana was the second president of the Republic of Rwanda, formerly a German and then a Belgian colony, serving from 1973 to 1994. The nation had long been torn by strife between its two ...

Following the Iranian president's death in a helicopter crash, the whole world is shocked. But throughout history, the death of presidents, prime ministers, and monarchs in aviation related ...

More recently, the killing of President Juvénal Habyarimana seems to have unleashed the Rwandan genocide, and historians including David Halberstam have argued that the assassination of John F ...

Former Rwandan President Pasteur Bizimungu, who has just been sentenced to 15 years in prison, ... In the 1980s he was believed to be close to Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana - whose death ...