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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Cameroon Media Regulators Demand End to Hate Language Before Poll

Voa News 15 Sep 2018

One supposed offenders - Amplitude FM, a radio station in Cameroon's capital Yaounde, which told potential voters to be ready for carnage that will spread all over the central African state should its president, Paul Biya, be reelected October 7 ... Essoka had suspended some of the station's programs, saying they could be compared with those of Radio Mille-Collines, the media outlet that was at the heart of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda....

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Why Is CNN Mainstreaming A Right-Wing Radio Host Who Promotes Violent, Extremist Rhetoric?

Alternet 08 Aug 2018

His radio show often features loose talk about right-wing violence ... There was a certain quiet drama when talk radio host John Fredericks appeared on a recent panelhosted by CNN and HLN anchor Carol Costello ... George Tiller on Fox News, before the abortion provider’s assassination; and the “hate radio” talk that inspired genocide in Rwanda....

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Why Is CNN Mainstreaming an Extremist Right-Wing Radio Host?

truthout 08 Aug 2018

Why has CNN, which this week publicized death threats made against two of its journalists, continued to provide a platform for a right-wing talk radio host who promotes a man who has suggested it may nearly be time for Trump supporters to kill reporters and other prominent Americans? ... George Tiller on Fox News, before the abortion provider’s assassination; and the “hate radio” talk that inspired genocide in Rwanda....

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‘Peace through Business’ mentors women

Guthrie News Leader 03 Aug 2018

Karan Ediger (left) hosted a Rwandan business woman, Laura Musiime, for an exchange program last week. Laura Musiime is a media managing director at a television and radio station that she and her husband own and operate in Rwanda, Radio One ... Musiime’s pioneering work has seen much progress in the media industry in Rwanda over the last decade, and political leaders are growing more comfortable with sharing news with the media ... ....

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Surviving genocide: Holocaust, Rwanda survivors share experiences

Watauga Democrat 31 Jul 2018

The war was between two of Rwanda’s social classes — the majority Hutus and the minority Tutsis ... Mukeshimana discussed how music played a role in the Rwanda genocide. At the time, Mukeshimana said the only mode of communication between the government and the people was a radio station ... Mukeshimana said, for example, that radio stations would change ......

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Xi's signed article receives enthusiastic response from Rwandan public

Xinhua 23 Jul 2018

Titled "China and Rwanda. A Friendship Higher than Mountains," the article praised Rwanda's accomplishments in its development and indicated directions for future cooperation ... After reading the article, Emmanuel Nkangura, a Rwandan journalist with Isango Star Radio, said the very impressive content reflects what is happening on the ground, which shows that Rwanda-China ties are growing stronger....

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The internet was supposed to save democracy. I asked 4 tech optimists what went wrong.

Vox 08 Jun 2018

“It seems to me empirically true that we’re dealing with a transformative, exceptional technology that holds open utopian possibilities.” ( Interview with ABC Radio Australia, 2012 ) What he says now (via email) ... How does that fit into your theory? Alec Ross From my standpoint, it’s being used in the same way in which Hutu radio was used to foment a genocide in Rwanda in the 1990s....

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Counter rise of violent rhetoric in SA

Mail Guardian South Africa 31 May 2018

Rwanda and South Africa are very different countries but, as next year’s elections approach, it is disturbing to observe political leaders using the same type of rhetoric as Mugesera ... Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (RTLM), the pro-Hutu radio station, performed a similar function in Rwanda in the months preceding the genocide. Rwanda is mountainous and radio broadcasts do not reach all parts of the country....

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Rwanda defends Arsenal football shirt sponsorship deal after aid outcry

Belfast Telegraph 29 May 2018

Clare Akamanzi, chief executive of the Rwanda Development Board, said the deal with the London side would boost tourism in the central African state and help it reduce its reliance on outside help. The three-year deal with the Gunners, who finished sixth in the Premier League last season, will see it become a “sleeve sponsor”, with “Visit Rwanda” on the team’s shorts next season ... Rare mountain gorilla twins born in Rwanda....

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Rwanda's £30m Arsenal sponsorship divides opinion

The Observer 29 May 2018

Anyone confused as to why Rwanda chose to spend £30m putting its name on the sleeve of Arsenal’s football shirts could begin to answer their question by looking at President Paul Kagame’s Twitter feed ... “Rwanda wouldn’t have occurred to me as a place for tourism, so perhaps you do need to shock people,” said Kelvyn Gardner, the head of international development at the Licensing Industry Merchandisers’ Association....

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Criticising Rwanda for spending its money on Arsenal shirts is shortsighted and insulting

The Independent 29 May 2018

I can guess what John Humphrys might have been thinking when he spied the item on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme running order (I paraphrase) ... Poverty-stricken Rwanda spaffs £30m on sponsoring super-rich Arsenal FC....

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Somalia:Ethiopia to Allow All Africans to Visit Without Visas 'Very Soon' PM Abiy Ahmed Says

All Africa 28 May 2018

[Dalsan Radio] Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed has revealed that the country will "very soon" follow Rwanda's example allowing all Africans to travel to the country without visas ... ....

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How dangerous is it when Trump calls some immigrants ‘animals’?

The Washington Post 26 May 2018

In Rwanda, for example, Hutu militants issued calls on the radio to exterminate inyenzi, the Kinyarwanda word for “cockroach.” But some Hutus refused to kill, saved Tutsis, or shifted stances from killing to not killing neighbors ... Moreover, research that looks at the timing of radio broadcasts in Rwanda and when massacres occurred finds no ......

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