SIX YEARS AGO, Rwanda had a blood delivery problem. More than 12 million people live in the small East African country, and like those in other nations, sometimes they get into car accidents. New mothers hemorrhage. Anemic children need urgent transfusions. You can’t predict these emergencies. They just happen. And when they do, the red stuff stored in Place A has to find its way to a patient in Place B—fast.

Following the arrest of genocide suspect Felicien Kabuga, survivors reflect on the role of the radio station he funded.

Commercial operations in Rwanda prove the company can deliver emergency blood packs in minutes, rather than hours


The remains of up to 1,700 victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi have been exhumed from 21 mass graves in the Kigali suburbs of Gahoromani in Kabuga, and Masaka, in the past month. The existence of the graves was revealed by a genocide suspect through an outburst while on a drinking spree in April.

The violence that shocked the world in 1994 did not come from nowhere. For years, violent Tutsi rebels, backed by Uganda in full knowledge of the CIA, had been preparing for war. By Helen C. Epstein.

It’s fun genocide quiz time! By Alex Ruthrauff.