He fled Rwanda during the spring and summer's deadly civil war, and now yearns to return home to be near her.

The total of refugees who have fled Rwanda is now estimated to be 2.1 million.

Of those who fled Rwanda during the crisis, about 1.5 million settled in eastern Zaire.

According to the United Nations, 17,600 people have fled Rwanda since fighting began.

Governments and aid agencies worked to organize help for the refugees, who are still fleeing Rwanda at the rate of 2,000 an hour.

It was revealed that the siblings had not seen their parents in 12 years after fleeing Rwanda during the 1994 genocide.

She fled Rwanda in 1994 to escape the same thugs, who killed her husband and her eldest son.

They fled Rwanda after losing a civil war there in 1994.

Many of them were soldiers and militiamen who fled Rwanda after having carried about the massacres there.

The refugees are the remnants of some 1.1 million Hutu who fled Rwanda in 1994.