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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Descent Into Moral Barbarism

Information Clearing House 20 Mar 2019

In Preemption Dershowitz observes that "there can be no question that some kinds of expression contribute significantly to some kinds of evil." In this context he recalls that the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda handed down life sentences to Hutu radio ......

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Kerry Says 'All Options Remain On Table' For Venezuela

Information Clearing House 18 Mar 2019

Video ... Posted May 23, 2014.   ... If a foreign company buys a Venezuelan newspaper, radio or television network, they also have to follow certain rules ... ... In Rwanda in 1994, a million people were murdered, sometimes at the hands of their own neighbors, after certain radio stations began to champion the extremist cause of a group of militants ... ....

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Tiff between brothers of the Great Lakes has huge implications

Independent online (SA) 10 Mar 2019

This was the question thrown at me by a university professor in a radio interview this week about the Uganda-Rwanda border stand-off. The point in dispute was the latest decision by Rwanda to close its border with Uganda ... Rwanda President Paul Kagame File Picture....

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Rwandan health ministry warns about outbreak of scabies

China.dot.org 17 Feb 2019

... city Kigali and has so far been reported in 14 districts of the country, said Alphonsine Mukamunana, who is in charge of environment health at the ministry of health, on a talk show on the Radio Rwanda....

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Kansas judge calls teenage girls 'aggressors' in sex abuse case and gives defendant reduced sentence

The Independent 04 Feb 2019

4/9 Rwanda genocide ... The final solution was planned and proclaimed by national and local government, and carried out by the army and police and the ordinary people guided by traditional social hierarchies based on the Collines – hills of Rwanda. All were urged on by radio stations and some public officials, and carried out with appalling efficiency....

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Hungary: pithy insult dogs Orbán as anti-government protesters resort to ridicule

The Observer 21 Jan 2019

“O1G”. Graffitied on to walls and fences. O1G ... O1G ... A recent questionnaire on the Hungarian website 444.hu offered readers a series of quotes and invited them to guess if they were from Hungarian media outlets talking about migrants, or from Radio Rwanda on the eve of the country’s genocide in the 1990s ... “It expresses an increasing frustration ... ....

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Preventing Brazilian Indigenous Genocide and Protecting the Amazon

CounterPunch 07 Jan 2019

It is official. On the first of the year, Jair Bolsonaro, was inaugurated as the 38thPresident of Brazil ... All of us living on this planet should be fearful of this act ... cattle ranching and soy farming) ... This was evident from the Rwanda genocide when Hutu heard racist radio messages about Tutsi equating them to cockroaches, among other things ... ....

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A different rating: making Bollywood films more gender sensitive

The Hindu 16 Dec 2018

Festival director Anupama Chopra said that she hoped that the decision would lead to an environment that is “constructive, inclusive and just” ... A study by Elizabeth Levy of Harvard University showed how a reconciliation-themed radio soap opera changed social norms and behaviour in Rwanda after the 1994 genocide....

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Burundi to sue BBC over document- ary on alleged killings of opponents

Coastweek 15 Dec 2018

The Burundian National Media Council has suspended the BBC radio station from broadcasting on the Burundian territory for six months since May 7 for violating principles of “balance of information” and “rigorous verification” of sources ... Rwanda shares Lake Rweru with Burundi....

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Two Rwandan soldiers and rebels killed in clashes, says president

Yahoo Daily News 14 Dec 2018

Kagame said the group, who crossed into the border town of Rubavu, may have been carrying out an attack to test Rwanda's defences ... A spokesman for FDLR said on BBC Kinyarwanda radio on Tuesday that they attacked Rwanda as they were pushing Rwandan troops who had tried to forcibly repatriate Rwandan refugees in Congo....

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Rwanda suspends nearly 200 companies from doing business with government over breach of contracts and falsification

Coastweek 05 Dec 2018

KIGALI Rwanda (Xinhua) --. These companies will no longer be eligible to do business with the government during the period of suspension ranging between six months to five years, Augustus Seminega, director general of the procurement agency told the state radio, Radio Rwanda ... Rwanda distributes laptops to government sponsored students on credit....

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Rwanda suspends nearly 200 companies from doing business with gov't over breach of contracts, falsification

Xinhua 03 Dec 2018

... to do business with the government during the period of suspension ranging between six months to five years, Augustus Seminega, director general of the procurement agency told the state radio, Radio Rwanda....

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Rwandan journalist working for BBC arrested in Rwanda over terror charges

Xinhua 28 Nov 2018

Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency in 2014 suspended the broadcasts of BBC Radio programs in national Kinyarwanda language "forever" in the country over allegations of genocide denial and ......