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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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 ......

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Academic tells the difference between free speech and hate speech

Malaysia Today 27 Nov 2018

Universiti Malaya law professor Azmi Sharom said in general, freedom of speech should be seen as something beneficial, to be protected ... “Only words started the genocide in Rwanda,” he said, referring to the 1994 civil war which was believed to have been started by ethnic propaganda spread through the radio and news ... ....

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The professor who is fascinated by Hindutva, social media, and humour

The Telegraph India 19 Nov 2018

The use of social media by India’s ruling party, the Bharatiya Janata Party, is unprecedented in the country ... At Rushdie’s request, Chopra changed the handle ... The telephone was originally envisioned as an entertainment device and radio as business to business technology ... “Radio was effectively used by Hutu commanders during the Rwanda genocide ... ....

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David Neiwert, Washington Post: Trump rhetoric firing up far-right militia groups to pursue domestic terrorism

Waco Tribune-Herald 18 Nov 2018

Seeking a more lenient sentence for Patrick Eugene Stein’s plot to murder hundreds of Somali immigrants in a small Kansas town, Stein’s attorneys turned to a novel strategy ... In 1990s Rwanda, for example, thousands were massacred when radio talkers targeted communities for lethal violence as part of a tribal/ethnic cleansing campaign ... .......