 News - Central Africa - Rwanda
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Rwanda Prepares to Rebury Genocide Victims |
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Rwanda | 8/1/2012 12:33:21 AM
As a generation approaches adulthood unburdened by memories of the conflict between ethnic Hutus and Tutsis, Rwanda plans to rebury hundreds of bodies on public display at the Murambi genocide memorial. But the plan is provoking debate about how future generations will commemorate the atrocities of 1994.
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Rwanda to press for genocide charges against FDLR leader |
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Rwanda | 12/27/2011 10:50:03 AM
After closely monitoring the trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Rwandan prosecutors remain undeterred as they seek to bring to book Callixte Mbarushimana, leader of the FDLR (Forces Democratiques pour la Liberation du Rwanda) militia, for his alleged involvement in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi minority in Rwanda.
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Prison waste cuts costs in Rwanda |
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Rwanda | 11/22/2011 12:53:12 AM
Nsinda Prison - A prisoner ignites a faint blue flame under one of 10 massive stoves in a prison kitchen in eastern Rwanda to start preparing a maize and bean lunch for the inmates.
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Documentarians Learn Ways to Best Preserve History of Rwanda's Painful Past |
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Rwanda | 11/10/2011 10:34:52 PM
Four staff members from the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center in Rwanda recently traveled to Los Angeles to learn techniques on how to best preserve the oral history of what happened in Rwanda 17 years ago. As many as one million people lost their lives in the Rwandan Tutsi genocide of 1994. Many people did survive the horror, and their stories are waiting to be heard.
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One killed as grenade explodes near Kigali |
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Rwanda | 7/28/2011 7:18:29 AM
At least one people was killed while two others were seriously injured Wednesday evening in Rwanda, after a grenade they mistook for treasure exploded in a garbage can at Jabana village, a suburb of Kigali city, police sources said here.
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Over 100 delegates attend Rwanda insurance investment summit |
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Rwanda | 6/10/2009 9:09:07 AM
Over 100 managers of insurance companies and financial institutions from around the world are attending a three-day insurance investment summit in the Rwandan capital Kigali since Tuesday to discuss investment opportunities in a sector that has been dominated by the government for the past three decades, APA learns here Wednesday.
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EAC common market hopes derailed further to November summit |
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Rwanda | 4/29/2009 10:37:23 PM
Heads of state from the East African Community (EAC), Wednesday failed to sign the proposed Common Market Protocol because of Tanzania’s stance on land, right of residence and use of identity cards, further dashing people’s much waited hopes of the future, APA reliably learns here.
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Rwanda Prepares to Rebury Genocide Victims |
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Rwanda | 8/1/2012 12:33:21 AM
As a generation approaches adulthood unburdened by memories of the conflict between ethnic Hutus and Tutsis, Rwanda plans to rebury hundreds of bodies on public display at the Murambi genocide memorial. But the plan is provoking debate about how future generations will commemorate the atrocities of 1994.
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Rwanda to press for genocide charges against FDLR leader |
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Rwanda | 12/27/2011 10:50:03 AM
After closely monitoring the trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Rwandan prosecutors remain undeterred as they seek to bring to book Callixte Mbarushimana, leader of the FDLR (Forces Democratiques pour la Liberation du Rwanda) militia, for his alleged involvement in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi minority in Rwanda.
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Prison waste cuts costs in Rwanda |
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Rwanda | 11/22/2011 12:53:12 AM
Nsinda Prison - A prisoner ignites a faint blue flame under one of 10 massive stoves in a prison kitchen in eastern Rwanda to start preparing a maize and bean lunch for the inmates.
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Documentarians Learn Ways to Best Preserve History of Rwanda's Painful Past |
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Rwanda | 11/10/2011 10:34:52 PM
Four staff members from the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center in Rwanda recently traveled to Los Angeles to learn techniques on how to best preserve the oral history of what happened in Rwanda 17 years ago. As many as one million people lost their lives in the Rwandan Tutsi genocide of 1994. Many people did survive the horror, and their stories are waiting to be heard.
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Rwandan gov't rejects any "form of threat" over citizens in UK |
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Rwanda | 5/23/2011 9:23:37 PM
The Rwandan government on Monday rejected any "form of threat" over its citizens living in Britain as recently voiced by Metropolitan Police in London, noting that "unveiling identities of people whose lives are supposedly threatened without a shred of evidence, is both unfair and unjust. "
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Rwanda to review its relations with UN over report of killings in DR Congo |
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Rwanda | 10/2/2010 7:17:30 AM
With a released United Nations damning report accusing Rwandan soldiers of widespread human rights abuses that include massacres and rape, Rwanda says it’s still reviewing its relations with the world body and could not rule out the option of recalling its peacekeeping forces from Darfur, APA learns here Saturday.
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Rwanda defends rights record over Commonwealth bid |
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Rwanda | 7/23/2009 12:29:23 PM
Rwanda's government said on Tuesday its human rights record should be viewed in the context of the huge strides it has made since the 1994 genocide, after a report said the country should not join the Commonwealth.
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EA musicians perform for hope |
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Rwanda | 5/3/2009 12:53:15 AM
Famous musicians from East Africa over the weekend joined their Rwandan counterparts in a “Hope” concert to support the “One Dollar Campaign”.
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