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NEWS ABOUT: Rwanda

Rwanda stories: 34 news summaries

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Nations Unite to Save Gorillas

10-year effort is the first to help dying species

Feb 25, 08 5:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Three African nations where the world's last 720 wild mountain gorillas live are finally working together to save the critically endangered animal, the Guardian reports. Until the 10-year plan was announced last week, mistrust and conflict had kept Rwanda, Uganda and the Congo from collaborating as another 10 apes were... More »

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endangered species • conservation • poaching • Democratic Republic of Congo • gorilla • Rwanda • Uganda • mountain gorillas • charcoal trade • rebel fighters • Central Africa • Virunga Park

Bush Urges Nations to Curb Darfur Fighting

He vows $100M for peacekeeping during visit to Rwanda

Feb 19, 08 7:22 PM CST
(Newser) - Halfway through his African tour, President Bush stopped in Rwanda today and honored the 800,000 killed in the country's 1994 genocide, the AFP reports. He also vowed $100 million to help curb Darfur fighting and urged other nations to do the same, but he defended his choice not to... More »

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Darfur • genocide • Crisis in Darfur • Rwanda • George W. Bush

Bush Pushes Abstinence in AIDS Program

In Tanzania, president prods Congress to renew global aid pact

Feb 17, 08 1:21 PM CST
(Newser) - President Bush urged Congress today to “stop squabbling” and renew his global AIDS program, which provides medication and treatment for millions and earmarks funds for abstinence efforts. In Tanzania, his African tour’s second stop, Bush signed a $700 million aid package, saying, “We don’t want people... More »

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Barack Obama • Tanzania • aid • abstinence education • Liberia • Rwanda • abstinence • HIV/AIDS • Ghana • US Congress • Benin • Jakaya Kikwete • AIDS prevention • PEFPAR • George W. Bush

Bush Signs $700M Grant
for Tanzania

Rice, meanwhile, prepares to join negotiations in Kenya

Feb 17, 08 6:35 AM CST
(Newser) - During the second stop on his whirlwind African tour, President Bush heaped praise on Tanzania's president and signed over a $698 million grant for infrastructure development. "We like dealing with honest people and compassionate people," Bush said of his trip, which is avoiding current hot spots like Kenya... More »

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Africa • Tanzania • foreign aid • Liberia • Rwanda • Ghana • Benin • George W. Bush

African Quakes Kill at Least 40

Hundreds injured; residents avoid returning home after houses topple

Feb 3, 08 6:35 PM CST
(Newser) - A pair of earthquakes killed at least 40 people and injured nearly 400 in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo today, AFP and the AP report. The first quake measured 6.0 on the Richter scale and the second, less than 4 hours later, 5.0. Public buses carted... More »

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Africa • Democratic Republic of Congo • Richter scale • Rwanda • Kivu • Burundi • aftershock

Quakes Kill 39 in Rwanda, Congo

Nearly 400 injured in pair of incidents

Feb 3, 08 1:56 PM CST
(Newser) - A pair of earthquakes shook Rwanda and the Congo today, killing 39 and injuring 380, the AP reports. Congo was hit first, with a 6.0 blast early this morning. Rwanda was shaken scant hours later, with a 5.0 shock. “I was at home when the earthquake hit,... More »

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Democratic Republic of Congo • natural disaster • Rwanda • Bukavu • earthquake

Kenya Unrest Not Rwanda-Scale

Ethnic violence is serious, but not organized genocide of 1994

Jan 3, 08 11:29 AM CST
(Newser) - Post-election violence in Kenya has taken on a nasty ethnic edge, as tribes across the country, particularly the Luo of opposition leader Raila Odinga, take their political frustrations out on sort-of President Mwai Kibaki’s powerful Kikuyu. But this isn’t quite Rwanda, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The 1994... More »

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Kenya • Rwanda • Kikuyu • Mwai Kibaki • Raila Odinga • Luo

Kenya Spirals Toward Ethnic War

Contested election result turns into tribal violence

Jan 2, 08 9:58 PM CST
(Newser) - The tribal violence gripping Kenya could reach a bloody climax tomorrow, Time reports, when an opposition leader has urged supporters to converge on a park in Nairobi to protest the results of last month's general election. Raila Odinga blames a rigged vote-count for re-electing President Mwai Kibaki, igniting disarray that... More »

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Kenya • tribes • Rwanda • Kikuyu • Mwai Kibaki • Raila Odinga • Luo • tribal warfare • ethnic warfare • election

Hillary Was Adviser, Not Decider

First Lady didn't handle intel but was a presidential sounding board

Dec 26, 07 4:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton spent her 8 years in the White House informally advising her husband and jetting around the world mediating social crises, the New York Times says, but the first lady had little direct experience with war or terrorism. She didn’t do “the heavy lifting of foreign policy,... More »

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China • Somalia • national security • Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • human rights • Bill Clinton • Haiti • diplomat • foreign policy • Rwanda • Balkans • first lady

Gates Charity Creates New African Woes

AIDS dollars distort fragile health systems, undermining basic care

Dec 16, 07 6:07 AM CST
(Newser) - The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has given $8.5 billion to global health causes and is slowly defeating AIDS in Africa, but it’s creating unexpected new problems for the continent, the LA Times reports. By pouring money into the treatment of AIDS, TB and malaria, it has... More »

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health care • Africa • Bill Gates • World Bank • malaria • vaccine • Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation • Rwanda • tuberculosis • Lesotho • Botswana • The Global Fund • GAVI

ITU Head Wants Broadband Net Help for Africa

Less than 1% on continent have high-speed access

Oct 28, 07 10:38 PM CDT
(Newser) - Fewer than four per cent of Africans use the Internet and less than one per cent have broadband access, helping to keep Africa behind in education, medicine and business, the BBC reports. Dr Hamadoun Toure, head of the International Telecommunication Union, is asking world organizations to make sure a third... More »

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Africa • United Nations • Internet • broadband Internet • World Bank • Intel • World Health Organization • Rwanda • Dr Hamadoun Toure • International Telecommunication Union • Kigali institute of technology.

Books Help Rwandan Kids Cope After Genocide

Only children's publisher in Rwanda has sold about 450,000 copies of 27 titles

Oct 13, 07 7:58 PM CDT
(Newser) - Rwandan kids are coping with life after genocide by reading, says the country's sole children's publisher. "After the genocide, children did not laugh, children did not play. But through language and stories, children can learn cultural history, and learn of our joy of life." Agnes Gyr-Ukunda says he... More »

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genocide • book • Rwanda • Kinyarwanda • Bakame Editions • Frankfurt Book Fair


XO: Buy 1, a Kid Gets 1 Free

XO buyers will be asked to buy 2nd laptop for needy children

Sep 24, 07 6:23 AM CDT
(Newser) - Americans will be asked to buy XO laptops in pairs—one for themselves and one for a child in a developing nation. Organizers of the "One Laptop Per Child" program hope to distribute laptops to millions of Third World schoolchildren this way. The combined cost of the pair of... More »

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Brazil • MIT • Cambodia • Rwanda • XO • One Laptop Per Child • Nicholas Negroponte • Third World

Rwandan War Crimes Suspect Arrested In Frankfurt

Ex-minister wanted for abetting genocide

Sep 21, 07 8:30 AM CDT
(Newser) - An ex-cabinet minister wanted for war crimes during the 1994 Rwandan genocide has been arrested in Germany after more than a decade on the lam. Deutsche Welle reports that a manhunt had tracked Augustin Ngirabatware since July as he shuttled between hotels and apartments before being caught on Wednesday near... More »

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genocide • Germany • international court • Rwanda • International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda • Augustin Ngirabatware • Hutu • Tutsi • Frankfurt

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