Progress on political rights for Kuwaiti women Oct 15, 2009
This New York fashion designer taps the talents of her fellow artists to help the orphans of Rwanda. Sponsored Links. (Yahoo News -- Kuwait)
Zimbabwe: ICC and Nobel Peace Prize Oct 13, 2009
Unlike the Nuremburg and ad hoc International Criminal Tribunals for the former Yugoslavia and Rwanda, the court operates on the principle of complementarity, devised to preserve considerable state sovereignty. Complementarity means that the ICC will only have jurisdiction when a national legal system is unable or unwilling to carry out a genuine investigation or prosecution of persons alleged to have committed international crimes. (allAfrica.com)
Trapped In The Past Oct 11, 2009
Admittedly, this country suffered her unfortunate past but compared to the horrible civil wars that were fought in other countries on the continent; the slaughtering of people in the Congo, the annihilation of men, women and children in Burundi and Rwanda, the liquidation of previous human lives in apartheid South Africa, then we have cause to reflect. Indeed, this is not to say what happened in the past is right because taking of innocent life for whatever reason is wrong. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Liberia's Taylor trial adjourned Oct 6, 2009
Rwanda queen-killing suspect held. Hackers hit more e-mail accounts. (Yahoo News -- Liberia)
East Africa: Museveni Wants Joint Force Oct 6, 2009
He cited the Interahamwe in Rwanda and the negative forces in the DR Congo as colonial residues he vowed would be defeated ... Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, in a speech read by his prime minister, said good governance and service delivery provided a foundation for stability and development. (allAfrica.com)
Confusion Over Kashmir Sep 30, 2009
(And Rwanda, Sudan, Somalia, the Republic of Congo, Iraq, Afghanistan it's a long list. . (CBS News)
How Bill Clinton Gave Us George W. Bush Sep 25, 2009
Ironically, O Neill seems to applaud the decisions to intervene on the side of the Croatians and the Bosnian Muslims against the Serbs as well as to force Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait in the first Gulf War and criticizes the Clinton administration for failing to send U.S. troops to bring an end to the civil war in Rwanda. But without a reassessment of America s strategic role in the world and a shift to a more selective form of intervention, the old Cold War-era paradigm with its emphasis on... (The American Conservative)
Audio slideshow Sep 23, 2009
Just 15 years after Rwanda's brutal genocide, the poor, landlocked country is hoping to reinvent itself as a high-tech innovator. As part of the Connected Africa season, the BBC's Adam Blenford travelled to Rwanda to find out how the country's government is taking the internet into rural areas - where even electricity is a luxury - and met hopeful students at a key science and technology college in the capital, Kigali. (BBC News -- Technology)
Internet bus tours Rwanda Sep 22, 2009
Internet bus for Rwanda ... Rory Cellan-Jones has climbed aboard near the Rwandan capital Kigali, where school children have been getting a glimpse of the worldwide web. (BBC News -- Technology)
Turning up the Heat on Gadget Makers to Bring Peace to Congo Sep 19, 2009
In an interview, Enough co-founder talks about changing the economic equation for conflict minerals and the role that Uganda and Rwanda can play in ending the crisis ... She talked about conflict minerals, she talked a lot about the FDLR [Forces Democratiques de Liberation du Rwanda, the largely Hutu militia that crossed the border into Congo after the genocide] and we're going to deal with this Congolese army, which is one of the biggest perpetrators of human rights abuses ... But at the end of... (allAfrica.com)
Rwanda: Country's Pension Body to Benefit From Safaricom Recovery Sep 7, 2009
com: Rwanda: Country's Pension Body to Benefit From Safaricom Recovery (Page 1 of 1). Rwanda: Country's Pension Body to Benefit From Safaricom Recovery ... Kigali As Safaricom, Kenya's biggest mobile operator shakes-off its financial hardship, the Social Security Fund of Rwanda (SSFR) says it will benefit from the recovery, easing fears of significant losses by the public pension body. (allAfrica.com)
* 2010 FIFA WORLD CUP: Cameroon earn crucial victory to revive hopes Sep 7, 2009
Meanwhile, veteran midfielder Ahmed Hassan, a last-minute inclusion after star Mohamed Aboutrika was injured warming up, kept African champions Egypt in the hunt for the finals by scoring the 68th-minute goal that earned a 1-0 victory over Rwanda in Kigali ... The North Africans came close to scoring a few times in the opening half and then withstood an early second-half Rwandan attacking flurry before Hassan gave Egypt a double over Rwanda having won 3-0 in Cairo two months ago. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Rwanda: Kigali to Spend U.S.$10.9 Million On 2010 Election Sep 1, 2009
com: Rwanda: Kigali to Spend U.S.$10 ... Rwanda: Kigali to Spend U.S.$10 ... 7 per cent of the Rwandan population is expected to cast a vote in the country's September 2010 presidential election, according to the Kigali-based National Electoral Commission. (allAfrica.com)
Franklin: Black mayor first memo is bigoted Aug 31, 2009
1:49 pm August 30, 2009, by Jim Galloway. Shirley Franklin called Friday afternoon with a stark description of the memo youve heard about the one that frets over the possibility that Atlanta might choose a white mayor to succeed her in November. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
NDC And NPP: Can't You Get Along Aug 29, 2009
On the ethnicity front, combine fanaticism with stupidity and personal hatred and before you would know you have a full fledged ethnic- cleansing with Rwanda-influenced proportion ... The genocide in Rwanda started 45 minutes after the Presidents plane was shut down. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Americans Historically Resistant to Reform Aug 17, 2009
Yeah, just like Rwanda wasn't "genocide," right. by Lawyers-Guns-n-Money August 17, 2009 12:08 AM EDT. (CBS News)
A stop-by-stop account of Clinton's Africa trip Aug 15, 2009
Traveling to Goma, a conflict-ridden provincial capital, Clinton focused on the crimes against women that have become widespread in this country and in neighboring Sudan, Uganda, and Rwanda. Since war broke out 12 years ago, 200,000 women and girls have been raped in Congo, the United Nations estimates. (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
U.S. Military Held War Games on Nigeria, Somalia Aug 15, 2009
He has proposed a budget for financial year 2010 that will provide increased security assistance to repressive and undemocratic governments in resource-rich countries like Nigeria, Niger, Chad, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and to countries that are key military allies of the United States like Ethiopia, Kenya, Djibouti, Rwanda and Uganda ... Ask the people in Rwanda (who survived that Peace-keeping) about the. (allAfrica.com)
Newsweek: Sentence shows junta's desperation Aug 12, 2009
Per capita GDP is about $1,200, slightly better than Rwanda, and the most violent incidents of antigovernment unrest have been rooted in economic grievances. In August 1988, the regime brutally crushed student-led demonstrations that erupted after authorities (apparently on numerologists' advice) abruptly demonetized many currency notes. (MSNBC -- International)
DR Congo profile Aug 11, 2009
The five-year conflict pitted government forces, supported by Angola, Namibia and Zimbabwe, against rebels backed by Uganda and Rwanda ... After the Cold War, Zaire ceased to be of interest to the US. Thus, when in 1997 neighbouring Rwanda invaded it to flush out extremist Hutu militias, it gave a boost to the anti-Mobutu rebels, who quickly captured the capital, Kinshasa, installed Laurent Kabila as president and renamed the country DR Congo ... A rift between Mr Kabila and his former allies... (BBC News -- Africa)
Clinton's challenge in Congo Aug 11, 2009
Recent UN-supported operations against Rwandan Hutu rebels, for example, have encouraged the deployment of unpaid and poorly trained soldiers who loot, rape, and terrorize more than they protect ... First, she must exert vigorous pressure on Congo and Rwanda to neutralize once and for all the remaining 5,000 or so Hutu rebels and their genocidal leaders, who have wreaked havoc in the Kivu provinces since being chased out of Rwanda in 1994 ... The Rwandan Army is best suited to do this, and it... (Christian Science Monitor)
Will Clinton press for peace in Congo? Aug 11, 2009
At present, Congo is carrying out a joint operation with the world's largest United Nations peacekeeping operation to eradicate a foreign militia that has had free reign in the eastern part of the country for more than a decade and that is blamed for the genocide of more than 800,000 Rwandans in 1994 ... Pointing to a recent joint operation between Rwandan forces and Congolese forces that has flushed out some Rwandan rebels known as the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), Mr.... (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
‘MOB’ing tactic disturbing Aug 9, 2009
No Kumbaya, just a caution; it s a short step from dehumanizing those who we see as different from ourselves to hacking them with machetes or bombing neighborhoods as has happened in Rwanda and Iraq. Sam Schropp. (Logan Herald Journal, UT)
Let's Call it Infirmative Action Aug 7, 2009
Location: FL Reply # 2 Date: Aug 7, 2009 - 3:13 AM EST Blacks best off in the America It appears that even slavery under white men takes your descendants to a far better life than staying in Africa (where black tribes enslaved each other and within recent memory have hacked 800,000 to death in Rwanda with another half million blacks slaughtered in Sudan by Muslim Arab militias). But Michelle Obama's joke of a thesis was how hard it is to be a black at Princeton. (Townhall.com)
Freed Reporters Describe N. Korea Ordeal Aug 6, 2009
" Saving people and making nice with others is a GOOD thing...not a bad thing At any cost? Don't you think other crazies around the World are looking at this and thinking all they have to do is grab a few Americans and they can get us to do what they want to get them back. I say we should have left the girls there. by Joe_NY_15 August 5, 2009 12:39 PM EDT by AJMarine12 August 5, 2009 12:08 PM EDT Don't you think other crazies around the World are looking at this and thinking all they have to do... (CBS News)
Clinton, Kim Hold "Exhaustive" Talks Aug 5, 2009
He and Madeline Not So Bright, should make a trip to Rwanda and see how they are welcomed. Nothing to fear now, as millions of the Rwandans were massacred during his watch. (CBS News -- World)
Rwandan refugees pushed to return to a home they consider unsafe Jul 31, 2009
This May 2009 photo shows Rwandan refugees in the Nakivale camp in Uganda. Some 18,000 Rwandan refugees in Uganda have been givena deadline for returning to their country, now considered stable by the international community ... Nakivale Refugee Camp & Kampala, Uganda - At the Nakivale refugee camp, a vast stretch of rolling, fertile land in southwest Uganda, some 8,000 Rwandan refugees were recently given a deadline. (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
RE: Religion, Politics And Ethnicity-1 Jul 30, 2009
Find out about genocide in Rwanda, the names of the perpetrators and their religious believe. What of Charles Taylor, a Muslim. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Iran's complex, contradictory media landscape Jul 24, 2009
And in May 2009 Freedom House ranked Iran 181 out of 195 countries for tied with China and Rwanda, and below Syria, Sudan, and Somalia. But Stephen C. Fairbanks, a former State Department analyst on Iran and past director of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty's Persian service, says Iran's press policies, while restrictive compared to Western norms, are "certainly not draconian.". (MSNBC -- International)
Rwanda: Respect the Oath [editorial] Jul 23, 2009
com: Rwanda: Respect the Oath (Page 1 of 1). Rwanda: Respect the Oath ... Most Active Stories: Rwanda. (allAfrica.com)
Guest Column: Uphold Africa's Contribution to Human Rights Jul 22, 2009
Statesmen and scholars have come to agree, in retrospect, that such an intervention could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives in Rwanda. The "responsibility to protect" norm seeks to ensure that such actions will be undertaken only in the face of the most heinous crimes, and only when peaceful means are no longer appropriate. (allAfrica.com)
Africa: The State is Back, Announces Unctad Jul 18, 2009
Rwanda, for example, is seeking to formulate a national vision and to come up with its own strategy. Zambia is identifying sector priorities for a competitiveness strategy. (allAfrica.com)
Is War Getting More or Less Deadly? Jul 14, 2009
Omitting "one-sided violence increases" such as the Rwanda genocide along with deaths from disease, hunger and "criminal and unorganized violence," PRIO arrived at a total of some 10 million battlefield deaths from 1946 to 2002 in conflicts where at least one warring party was a government. Way too low, , working with colleagues at the University of Washington and at the Gates Foundation-funded Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation. (CBS News -- Sci/Tech)
Milking and drowning Ghanas Economy Some suggested solutions Jul 11, 2009
In Rwanda, President Paul Kagame is doing it. Rwanda is the least corrupt country in Africa and the darling country for NGOs etc ... In Rwanda, everybody does what is expected of him or her. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Rwanda court gets more time Jul 11, 2009
A UN court set up to try those accused of war crimes and genocide in Rwanda has been given more time to complete its work ... The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda was initially due to complete the trials by the end of 2008 ... He dismissed suggestions that some of the cases could be transferred to courts in Rwanda. (BBC News -- Africa)
Kenya: Parties Ask ICC to Disclose Violence Suspects Jul 11, 2009
The parties said Kenya should emulate Rwanda, which tried its top genocide suspects in Arusha but still ensured other perpetrators also faced local courts and the traditional justice system. They called on MPs to take the formation of a local tribunal seriously "otherwise it will lead to collapse of governance system and recurrence of violence.". (allAfrica.com)
Kenya: State Has Until Sept 30 to Set Up Tribunal Jul 11, 2009
The chairman was addressing a press conference at the Whitesands Beach hotel where the ICJ is holding a workshop for its officials drawn from the region with representatives from Rwanda, Uganda, Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo and Southern Sudan. The ICJ judgment is based on statements of the agreement he availed to the media, requiring the government to provide the ICC with, among other things, "a report on the current status of investigations and prosecutions arising out of... (allAfrica.com)
Disillusioned in Burma Jul 10, 2009
Such commissions were instituted for Rwanda and Darfur. Nothing less is needed if the UN, that would-be parliament of nations, is to fulfill its commitment to protect the peoples of the world from criminal rulers. (Boston Globe)
8,000 Artists Celebrate In Panafrican Festival Jul 10, 2009
Many African states are still struggling to overcome dictatorships or army-led regimes, while civil-wars, famine and corruption remain widespread across a continent that experienced the world's worst recent genocide in Rwanda and faces accusations of a second one in Darfur. Algeria especially was long in no position to stage a second festival, said chief organizer Benhamadi, referring to the "black decade" of near civil war between armed Islamists and Algerian authorities that killed up to... (CBS News -- World)
Africa awaits Obama's turn on leadership Jul 9, 2009
Every recent US president has faced major crises in Africa the Rwanda genocide, US embassy bombings, Darfur, Zimbabwe. Barack Obama, who makes his first presidential visit to sub-Saharan Africa July 10 and 11, inherits several of these crises. (Christian Science Monitor)
East Africa customs union boosted Jul 7, 2009
Rwanda and Burundi have joined the East African Community Customs Union, which should lead to lower prices, as goods from fellow members are now duty free ... The BBC's Geoffrey Mutagoma in the Rwandan capital Kigali says there are fears about the future of Rwanda's already crippled manufacturing industries. (BBC News -- Africa)
Liberia: TRC's Economic Criminals Jul 7, 2009
Look at Rwanda, Burundi, Angola, and even south Africa. As a master student studying politics and international studies with emphasis and peace and conflict studies at Uppsala University in Sweden, the Liberia Truth and Reconciliation Commissions public release on July 2nd of its final report is an important, necessary step in Liberias efforts to confront the legacies of its 17-years civil conflict and highlights the need for additional measures to deal with Liberias difficult. (allAfrica.com)
Rwanda: Five Million Voters Registered for 2010 Polls Jul 6, 2009
com: Rwanda: Five Million Voters Registered for 2010 Presidential Polls (Page 1 of 1). Rwanda: Five Million Voters Registered for 2010 Presidential Polls ... Kigali The number of Rwandans ready to cast their votes in the forthcoming 2010 Presidential elections has hiked by over half a million compared to last year's figures for the parliamentary polls. (allAfrica.com)
Africa: Would Africa Have Been Better Off With Hillary Clinton? [opinion] Jul 5, 2009
From the Washington Posts Keith Richburg (but for the grace of God go I during the Rwanda genocide) to Colin Powells (famous all Nigerians are corrupt) comments about African plight. Moreover, former Senator Mosley-Braun (Abacha) to Rep Jefferson (Atiku) monetary exploits, are as deadly as Shells environmental pollution of the Niger. (allAfrica.com)
The Saucy Sarah Gabfest Jul 4, 2009
Emily chatters about a in Slate about children born of rape during the Rwandan genocide. The heartbreaking and chilling stories of children conceived of the worst sexual violence explore some of the myriad complexities remaining in Rwanda 15 years after the end of the genocide there. (Slate)
Mills re-affirms commitment to African Union Jul 4, 2009
Other African countries to benefit from similar assistance are Mali, Burkina Faso, Mozambique, Zambia, Botswana and Rwanda. The grant is given to countries pursuing macro-economic reforms based on standards set by the EU and committed to democratic governance. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
Weaning Ghana off Foreign Aid: Is it Possible? Jul 3, 2009
The West has spent $1 trillion on aid to Africa over the past four decades "But no nation has ever attained economic development by aid" says former Goldman Sachs banker Dambisa Moyo, author of the new book 'Dead Aid' (Rwanda Rising: A new Model of Economic Development, article by Business journalist Jeff Chu). The statement made by Dambisa Moyo really raises upwelling concerns considering the best pro-poor approach for development in Ghana. (Ghana Web, Ghana)
One Man's Plan To Save A Natural Treasure Jun 29, 2009
I have already been thinking of heading to Rwanda to do the same and now this came up ... I have already been thinking of heading to Rwanda to do the same and now this came up ... I have already been thinking of heading to Rwanda to do the same and now this came up. (CBS News)
Moment of truth Jun 28, 2009
" Worldwide movementToday, the ICRC, together with the Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent societies, has become a worldwide movement with tens of thousands of workers and volunteers. Civilians make up an estimated 90% of casualties in modern wars ICRC delegates on their way to Solferino to mark the anniversary each have their own tales of modern day Solferinos. Susannah Swann was in Rwanda during the genocide of 1994. "At one point there was an advance on Kigali and the government fell,"... (BBC News -- Europe)
Global reach of Spain's courts curtailed Jun 26, 2009
Spanish courts, most famously under criminal court Judge Baltasar Garzn, have launched investigations into , Chinese mistreatment of Tibetans, and genocide in Rwanda and Guatemala. Such cases already open will be "grandfathered" under the new law and will continue. (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
Breakaway Episcopalians install a new archbishop Jun 26, 2009
Its intent is to form a polyglot communion with like-minded dioceses spanning from Rwanda to Argentina. The ordination in 1993 of the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, Gene Robertson of New Hampshire, became the flash point in a long struggle between liberals and conservatives inside the Episcopalian church over biblical precepts. (Christian Science Monitor -- USA)
Famine relief Jun 25, 2009
The demand for peanut life-savers has shot up so dramatically in recent years, that two British doctors - who have worked in some of the world's most devastating humanitarian emergencies from Darfur to Rwanda - have decided to start manufacturing packets in Ethiopia this month. South Africa has a law to compel companies to fortify maize. (BBC News -- Business)
Ex-minister jailed for genocide Jun 23, 2009
Some 800,000 people were killed during Rwanda's 1994 genocide. A Rwandan ex-deputy interior minister who tricked thousands of people into hiding on a hill where they were butchered has been jailed for genocide ... The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda heard he supervised massacres in the southern region of Butare. (BBC News -- Africa)
Congo-Kinshasa: Militias Decry Kivu Amnesty Law Jun 23, 2009
Even if power could be shared, the armed groups of Kivu would need to have the means to protect their villages, he said, because the Rwandan militia the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda, FDLR, has been active since the start of year. Relevant Links. (allAfrica.com)
After 16 years of war, Burundi rebels start new lives Jun 19, 2009
A different path than Rwanda. Burundi is the forgotten twin of its neighbor, Rwanda ... While the Hutu majority seized power in Rwanda, the Tutsi-dominated Army snatched control in Burundi. (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
Gabon leader's death revives debate over France's cozy ties with former colonies Jun 18, 2009
Francafrique-watchers in Paris, like Sharon Courtoux of the nongovernmental organization Survie, which has done extensive work in Rwanda, doesn't see French influence ebbing soon. She argues that French holdings and interests in the former colonies "go far past anything made public.". (Christian Science Monitor -- World)
Movies online: The future is (almost) here Jun 17, 2009
is an independent feature film shot in Rwanda by a young American director, and in a case like that, the story of how the movie got made always threatens to overwhelm the movie itself ... Just to ramp up the improbability index a bit more, Chung is also the son of Korean immigrants who was born in Denver and raised on a farm in rural Arkansas, but who found himself, in 2006, making a movie about a troubled Hutu-Tutsi friendship with a class of 15 Rwandan film students, some of them genocide... (Salon)
Call to close genocide loophole Jun 16, 2009
Suspects from genocides such as Rwanda are thought to be in the UK ... The Aegis Trust says several people suspected of committing torture and genocide overseas, such as in Rwanda and Iraq, have entered the country ... The report names Felicien Kabuga, accused of financing the Rwandan genocide, and Liberian Chucky Taylor, who was convicted of torture by the US, as two individuals who came to the UK but were not brought before the courts. (BBC News -- UK)
Obama Gives In to NIMBY Lawmakers Jun 16, 2009
In the WP's op-ed page, writes that while the world seems concerned about terrorists in Pakistan, it has been "stunningly indifferent to the plight of the more than 2.4 million people who have fled the Swat Valley" in what is now considered to be "the largest and fastest displacement of people since the genocide in Rwanda." The United States has sent aid, but no European or Muslim Arab country has followed suit. The Pakistani military is seriously confronting the Taliban for the first time, and... (Slate)
AFRAID TO GO HOME Jun 5, 2009
Reuters AlertNet - Fearful Rwandan refugees reject repatriation ... Fearful Rwandan refugees reject repatriation 04 Jun 2009 17:16:00 GMT Source: AlertNet ... NAKIVALE, Uganda - Perched on a fraying bag of charcoal in a Ugandan refugee settlement, Noel Hiziryayo says he won't go back to his native Rwanda. (AlertNet)
People who call others racist fit four categories Jun 4, 2009
What I believe is that you guys aren't pro-life at all, because if you were you'd extend your outrage, and physically, to China, Darfur, Nepal, Rwanda, Somalia. You'd want everyone started off on better, more equal footing in America and care about little kids in the ghetto as much as you do stem cells. (Waterloo Courier, IO)
Zimbabwe: South African Presidency Accused of Hiding Violence Report May 30, 2009
Let's not forget, it was Radio Rwanda radio that called for the brutal murder of a million Tutsi. Never trust a radio 10,000 miles away from Zimbabwe make claims they cannot prove. (allAfrica.com)
Africa: Diamond Magnate Calls for 'African Way' of Doing Business May 26, 2009
Citing with approval the approaches of Presidents Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Armando Guebuza of Mozambique and Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf of Liberia, he said that "by improving competitiveness and deepening our integration with global markets, we can simultaneously reduce our economic vulnerability and increase growth.". Oppenheimer is not a name most South Africans would expect to see on the guest list of an Africa Day celebration in Addis Ababa. (allAfrica.com)
Mutharika re-elected Malawi PresidentBlantyre, Malawi (PANA) - With 93.25 per cent of Tuesday presidential votes counted, incumbent Malawi President Bingu wa Mutharika, candidate of the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), has scored a surprise landslide win, seeing offmain challenger John Tembo by 2,730,630 - or 66 per cent of the counted votes -to 1, 270, 057, representing 31 per cent. 22/05/2009 Full Text... May 23, 2009
South Africa, Rwanda, Swaziland and Lesotho are also expected to send representatives. Blantyre - 22/05/2009. (Panapress.com)
Malawi leader to be inaugurated May 22, 2009
South Africa, Rwanda, Swaziland and Lesotho are also expected to send representatives to the event in Blantyre. State TV in Malawi reported that the president had won more than 60% of votes cast. (BBC News -- Africa)
