Hundreds of Rwandans who fled to Congo after the 1994 genocide return home

The U.N. refugee agency said it helped repatriate 360 Rwandan refugees, mostly women and children, as part of a broader plan to return about 2,000 people home.

May 18, 2025 - 09:58
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Hundreds of Rwandans who fled to Congo after the 1994 genocide return home
Hundreds of Rwandan refugees who were living in eastern Congo since the 1994 Rwanda genocide are repatriated by bus from Goma, Democratic Republic of the Congo, on Saturday, May 17, 2025.

The U.N. refugee agency said it helped repatriate 360 Rwandan refugees, mostly women and children, as part of a broader plan to return about 2,000 people home.

(Image credit: Moses Sawasawa)