Wearing a stern face and speaking with a deep patronising voice, a casual onlooker might easily take a villainous perception of Damas Gisimba, as opposed to his real stature of a real philanthropist ...

Orphanage run by Damas Gisimba and his brother became refuge from militias during genocide that killed 800,000 Rwandans Damas Gisimba, who sheltered and saved the lives of hundreds of people during ...

WINONA -- One of the most horrific periods in the history of the African country of Rwanda lasted three months. For Damas Gisimba, it felt like three years. It began April 6, 1994, the day the ...

Rwanda holds Damas Gisimba in high honor for saving over 400 people in the 1994 genocide. The man who displayed such unusual resilience and bravery at a time of the mass slaughter of Tutsis spoke to ...

Emmanuel Nshimimana was intent as he focused on cutting out a shape to make a Christmas card. He was trying to make as many cards as he could to sell so that he could get money to take him through ...

Damas Mutenzintare Gisimba is the second winner of the prize, set up in memory of a Swiss police chief who rescued Jews during the Second World War. The prize, which is to be presented at a ceremony ...

Rwandans are continuing to pay tribute to Damas Gisimba Mutezintare, a hero who saved over 400 people in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi, who died on Sunday, June 4, aged 62. He is acclaimed for ...

Damas Gisimba Mutezintare, who was pronounced dead on Sunday, June 4, will be laid to rest on Saturday, June 10. He was regarded as a hero for having saved lives during the 1994 genocide against the ...

Peter and Dancilla Gisimba, here in a drawing by one of the orphans, died before the genocide Miles from the Rwandan capital Kigali's centre, tucked between bustling Senegalese and Ghanaian eateries, ...

In a park in London, two men greet each other as old friends. One is grey-haired and American, the other a tall Rwandan in a smart suit. They embrace. The American wipes tears from his eyes. The last ...

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Miles from the Rwandan capital Kigali's centre, tucked between bustling Senegalese and Ghanaian eateries, street butchers, pavement markets and the odd informal cinema, the Gisimba orphanage is not ...