BOSTON (AP) — Hundreds of people with ties to the small central African nation of Rwanda have gathered in Boston to celebrate progress made since the end of the 1994 genocide that killed some 800,000 people from the minority Tutsi community in 100 days.
Participants travelled from Canada and the United States to hear President Paul Kagame address the second annual Rwanda Day on Saturday afternoon.
Rwanda has seen economic growth averaging 8 percent in the last decade. Officials say that helped lift one million people out of poverty in the last five years.
But tensions are rising with its much larger neighbor in the Congo after officials there accused Rwanda of supporting rebels operating in eastern provinces.
Rwanda, which has been singled out as providing support for the rebels in a U.N. report, denies any involvement in the Congo rebellion.
