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04/21/2008
Uganda Telecom has started work on a fiber-optic link from the western town of Mbarara in Uganda to the Rwanda border-crossing point at Katuna - essentially giving a major boost to the long-awaited regional fibre project, RNA has learnt.
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04/14/2008
Since the 1994 genocide, Rwandan women have gained almost equal representation in the national legislature's lower chamber and have used this advancement to make "remarkable contributions to rebuild their society," write Elizabeth Powley and Elizabeth Pearson.
Read moreFrom: Initiative for Inclusive Security |
04/04/2008
Members of ethnic groups once pitted against each other in Rwanda's brutal civil war are now rebuilding community ties and helping each other fight poverty through an innovative program that gives small-scale farmers "peace" cows.
Read moreFrom: Heifer International |
01/11/2008
All Rwandans at the cell level could have access to ICT facilities by the end of next year if plans presented by district mayors yesterday are implemented. A cell is the second lowest administrative level.
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12/21/2007
A seguito di una recente visita in Rwanda per partecipare all’assemblea paritetica Ue-Paesi dell’area Africa-Caraibi-Pacifico (Acp), per discutere di rapporti commerciali tra Europa e Acp, l’europarlamentare Vittorio Agnoletto ci ha inviato la seguente riflessione che volentieri pubblichiamo. L’europarlamentare affronta tre nodi rilevanti nell’attuale vicenda sociale ruandese: l’istituzione dal 2005 dei tribunali Gacaca a cui spetta il compito di rivelare la verità sul genocidio, sradicare la cultura dell’impunità, rinforzare l’unità e la riconciliazione dei ruandesi. Per quanto riguarda la lotta all’Aids, il sistema ruandese, grazie ai contributi stanziati dal Fondo Globale e attraverso il servizio sanitario con ambulatori nei villaggi riesce a fornire farmaci antiretrovirali per il 50% di coloro che ne avrebbero necessità. Ma gli attuali accordi che l’Unione Europea intende imporre ai Paesi Acp delineano “una catastrofe”: in un solo anno si stima che il Rwanda perderà oltre 17 milioni di dollari. di Vittorio Agnoletto
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11/06/2007
Successful government reforms have helped Rwanda reach second place (in a tie with Finland) on the latest Gender Equity Index.
Read moreFrom: New Times (Kigali) |
11/04/2007
A piece of verbatim theatre based on the words of prisoners and guards from Nazi concentration camps has been given a twist in a current London production - it is performed by Rwandans and Congolese who bring to the stage their closeness to a more recent genocide.
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11/02/2007
President Paul Kagame has indicated to the One-Laptop-Per-Child project that government will buy laptops from the new sales promotion scheme 'Give 1 and Get 1' (GIGI), RNA has learnt from a senior official behind the plan.
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10/18/2007
Thirteen years after their own holocaust, a company of actors from Rwanda come to London to perform a play about Auschwitz.
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08/23/2007
Despite countless global impediments to women's political participation and representation, activists are working tirelessly to secure unbiased opportunities for election and equal rates of political representation for women and men alike.
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07/26/2007
Officers of Rwanda’s National Police Force have killed at least 20 detainees since November, according to a report by Human Rights Watch. Killing detainees is not the way to establish a state of law, says the human rights group.
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07/10/2007
Ruanda on noussut vuoden 1994 kansanmurhan varjoista ja kehittyy vauhdilla itäisen Afrikan informaatiotekniikan keskukseksi.
Read moreFrom: Suomen IPS Related: [ICT] Image: © Cruz Roja Española
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04/16/2007
Ruandan kansanmurha on käynnistänyt kehitysmaiden historian suurimman oikeusprosessin, joka jatkuu yhä. Ruandan jälleenrakennusta ja oikeudenkäyntiä tukenut Kirkon ulkomaanapu julkaisee suomalaistoimittajan kirjan tapahtumista ja sen selvittämisestä osana 60-vuotisjuhlaansa.
Read moreFrom: Kirkon Ulkomaanapu Related: [Africa] [Human Rights] [Justice and Crime] [Conflict Resolution] Image: Legacy of Rwandan genocide © Heidi Martin
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03/23/2007
The Rwandan government has announced a new national family planning program, but aid organizations warn this program must be voluntary, and should not offer any incentives or disincentives when it comes to childbearing.
Read moreFrom: Population Action International |
12/29/2006
Four Rwandans who settled in Britain were last night arrested in a coordinated operation after their home country sought their extradition in connection with its 1994 genocide.
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12/05/2006
Kirkon Ulkomaanapu (KUA) on myöntänyt katastrofirahastostaan 50 000 euroa Tansaniasta karkotettujen ruandalaisten humanitaariseen apuun. KUA:n tuella muun muassa rakennetaan vesijärjestelmä uudelle asutusalueelle. Alueella asuu tällä hetkellä noin 1 300 ihmistä, mutta määrä kasvaa koko ajan. Palaajaväestö saa myös perustarvikkeita elämistä varten.
Read moreFrom: Kirkon Ulkomaanapu Related: [Development] [International Cooperation] [Refugees] Image: Pakolainen kantaa omaisuuttaan Tansanian puolella. © Exile Images
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10/31/2006
Suomen Punainen Risti avustaa Tansaniasta Ruandaan palautettavia siirtolaisia 50 000 eurolla. Tansanian hallitus päätti viime maaliskuussa, että kaikki maassa asuvat noin 75 000 ruandalaista siirtolaista karkotetaan Ruandaan. Syyskuuhun mennessä Ruandaan oli palannut noin 5500 ihmistä. Ruandan Punainen Risti avustaa paluumuuttajia kansainvälisen Punaisen Ristin tuella.
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07/14/2006
As the Rwandan government continues to try to establish national amity in the wake of the genocidal conflict between the country’s two dominant groups, the Hutus and Tutsis, a third community has been forgotten. Preti Taneja reports on the plight of the Batwa people.
Read moreFrom: Minority Rights Group Related: [Central Africa] |
06/28/2006
Rwanda has been announced the winner of the United Nations global competition on public service on the African continent.
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