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Tuesday, 25 February 2020, 10:05

Rwanda

Rwanda (/ruːˈɑːndə/ or /ruːˈændə/ ( listen); Kinyarwanda: U Rwanda [u.ɾɡwanda]), officially the Republic of Rwanda (Kinyarwanda: Repubulika y'u Rwanda; French: République du Rwanda), is a sovereign state in central and east Africa and one of the smallest countries on the African mainland. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Rwanda is in the African Great Lakes region and is highly elevated; its geography dominated by mountains in the west and savanna to the east, with numerous lakes throughout the country. The climate is temperate to subtropical, with two rainy seasons and two dry seasons each year.

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'Do you have a shred of shame left?': Twitter slams news channel for Jamia shooter as 'anti-CAA protester'

Yahoo Daily News 30 Jan 2020

Before opening fire, he shouted, "If you people have to stay in India then you will have to say Vande Mataram, and now I am going to give you your freedom." ... "When you think it can’t get worse. It does ... Republic TV is nothing more than India's Rwanda Radio RTLM (Radio Télévision Libre des Milles Collines) that distorted events to push for genocide ... ....

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“As Long as We Live on the Streets, They Will Beat Us”

Human Rights 27 Jan 2020

For over a decade, Gikondo Transit Center in Kigali, Rwanda’s capital city, has served as an unofficial detention facility where street children, street vendors, sex workers, homeless people, and beggars are arbitrarily locked away ... [3] Steven Baguma, “Rwanda ... [5] Edwin Musoni, “Rwanda ... [10] “Rwanda ... [72] Morning News, Radio Rwanda, August 13, 2001....

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Rwanda jails opposition figures for 7-12 years for 'conspiracy'

Yahoo Daily News 24 Jan 2020

State-run Radio Rwanda, in a report late on Thursday, said the six newly sentenced to prison included Boniface Twagirimana, a vice president in the FDU-Inkingi, who along with one associate received a 10-year term ... The court, based in the south of Rwanda, acquitted four other defendants....

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Social media and free speech in Africa (1)

Business Day Online 18 Feb 2020

For instance, old media, not new or social media, motivated the genocide in Rwanda. Banerjee & Duflo assert “altogether, Radio Television Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM) propaganda is estimated to be responsible for 10 percent of the violence, or about fifty thousand Tutsi ......

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NOTES ON THE DEATH OF INDIA’S LIBERAL SELF-IMAGE

Dawn 19 Jan 2020

I ask this because perhaps with the exception of Radio Rwanda [which is said to have played a role in enabling mass genocide in Rwanda], I do not recall any national media anywhere celebrating, exhorting, even demanding the crushing of an oppressed people, like Kashmiris, by the state....

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Journalists advised against manipulation by politicians

Ghana Business News 05 Dec 2019

Mr. Emmanuel K. Dogbevi ... “In Rwanda it is on record that radio was used to lay the groundwork for the genocide, while in Serbia, television was manipulated to stir ethnic tensions prior to the civil war and in the Soviet Republic of Georgia, territorial disputes were exacerbated by the propaganda of nationalist mythology in the media” ... Source....

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How do you save endangered gorillas? With lots of human help

Elko Daily Free Press 03 Dec 2019

2, 2019 photo, a silverback mountain gorilla named Segasira looks up as he lies under a tree in the Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda ... 4, 2019 photo, gorilla tracker Gabriel Safari talks on the radio as he monitors gorillas from the Agasha group in the Volcanoes National Park, Rwanda ... "But in Rwanda, so far they're careful, and it's working."....

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Intense monitoring and care lift mountain gorilla numbers

Elko Daily Free Press 03 Dec 2019

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Burundi Asks Households to Spy on Neighbours’ Guests After Deadly Attacks

Yahoo Daily News 30 Nov 2019

In the second, gunmen attacked a Burundi military camp near the border with Rwanda on Nov ... People living in areas bordering Rwanda must also to report the presence of any strangers, it said ... The plotters allegedly fled to Rwanda, which refused to hand them over, according to Burundian authorities ... Rwanda dismissed those accusations....

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Burundi told to watch neighbours after cross-border attacks

Business Day 29 Nov 2019

In the second, gunmen attacked a Burundi military camp near the border with Rwanda on November 16 and retreated to the northern neighbour ... People living in areas bordering Rwanda must also to report the presence of any strangers, it said ... The plotters allegedly fled to Rwanda, which refused to hand them over, according to Burundian authorities....

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This election, let’s bring peace home

Open Democracy 26 Nov 2019

As the UK General Election gets down and dirty, we all need to get serious about civil peace. Michael Young. 26 November 2019. Polling station in Camberwell, London, 2010 . ... CC BY-SA 2.0 ... Submit ... In Rwanda, for example, steadily more incendiary hate speech on the radio hardened into calls for mass violence over decades prior to the genocide 25 years ago ... ....

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Burundi : huit soldats tués et des dizaines portés disparus après une attaque

All Africa 19 Nov 2019

Le Rwanda indexé ... “Un groupe armé de fusils en provenance du Rwanda a attaqué une position de militaires burundais situé sur le Mont Twinyoni () en commune de Mabayi ... Ce groupe armé s’est replié au Rwanda”, avait indiqué le major dans une déclaration lue à la Radio télévision nationale du Burundi (RTNB)....

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New foreign minister, internal security minister appointed in Rwanda reshuffle

Independent online (SA) 05 Nov 2019

Kigali - Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has appointed a new foreign affairs minister in a cabinet reshuffle, a statement read on state broadcaster Radio Rwanda late on Monday said....