Agathe Habyarimana, the 82-year-old widow of former Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana, avoided trial in France after investigating magistrates found insufficient evidence to charge her with ...

Former DR Congo Prime Minister Sentenced to Hard Labour for CorruptionFormer Democratic Republic of Congo Prime Minister Augustin Matata Ponyo was sentenced to ten years of forced labour for ...

Agathe Habyarimana, the 82-year-old widow of former ... who fled Rwanda with French assistance after her husband's assassination triggered the mass killings, was under investigation after a ...

The war reached a tentative peace with the Arusha Accords in 1993. However, the assassination of President Juvénal Habyarimana on 6 April 1994 ignited the genocide, as Hutu extremists used the ...

It was triggered by the assassination of Hutu President Juvenal Habyarimana on the night of 6 April, 1994, when his plane was shot down over Kigali by Hutu extremists and the Interahamwe militia.

The assassination of Habyarimana on 6 April 1994 triggered the Genocide against the Tutsi. The UN mission’s commander sent a platoon to guard the home of prime minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana.

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.

Mr Museveni invited Juvenal Habyarimana as the chief ... President Kagame waded into the murky subject of the assassination of his predecessor, Habyarimana, on April 6, 1994, when returning ...

The assassination of Habyarimana and Ntaryamira sparked a chain of events that would ultimately lead to the Rwandan genocide. The RPF, led by Paul Kagame, who is now the President of Rwanda ...

but Kagame maintains that the killing was ordered by Hutu leaders to aggravate the militias who carried out the genocide of the Tutsi minority group following Habyarimana's assassination.