1. 1  a prefix meaning ânot,â freely used as an English formative, giving negative or opposite force in adjectives and their derivative adverbs and nouns (unfair; unfairly; unfairness; unfelt; unseen; unfitting; unformed; unheard-of; un-get-at-able), and less freely used in certain other nouns (unrest; unemployment). 1  Compare un-2 .
On August 7, 1998, at approximately 10:30 a.m. local time, two Embassies of the United States of America, located in the East African cities of Nairobi, Kenya and Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, were attacked in coordinated truck bombings, later determined to have occurred approximately four minutes apart.
1994: RWANDA'S GENOCIDE. 1  6 April: President Habyarimana killed in plane explosion. 2  April-July: Some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus killed. 3  July: Tutsi-led rebel movement RPF captures the capital Kigali. 4  July: Two million Hutus flee to Zaire, now DR Congo.ore than 20,000 Tutsis were killed, and many more fled to the neighbouring countries of Burundi, Tanzania and Uganda. When Belgium relinquished power and granted Rwanda independence in 1962, the Hutus took their place.