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Nick Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's new book should be of particular concern to anyone familiar with Millennium Development Goal number five: reducing maternal mortality.
Jim Luce | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York
Flashbulbs popping non-stop, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New ...
David Sullivan | Posted 11.05.2009 | Technology
Electronics companies should commit resources to trace supply chains back to the point of extraction, conduct audits, and check assurances for fraud to certify electronics products as conflict-free.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 11.02.2009 | World
What has happened to the innocent in Congo goes far beyond anything that rational minds can comprehend. Is this why the US has turned such a blind eye to what is happening there?
Josh Ruxin | Posted 10.28.2009 | World
Can a woman not only forgive the man who killed her husband, her child, her mother, but accept him as her friend and neighbor? Can a man forgive himself for the brutal act he committed?
Huffington Post | Tam Vo | Posted 10.22.2009 | Impact
You are never too young to change the world, and Jessica Markowitz is living proof. The Seattle Times reports that Markowitz was just a sixth grader w...
Josh Ruxin | Posted 10.16.2009 | World
In Rwanda and across Africa, the Millennium Villages project has demonstrated that food scarcity can be all but vanquished if the required resource management, investment and political will are available.
Jim Luce | Posted 10.20.2009 | World
Fourteen years after the civil war in Rwanda, refugees are still living in mud huts. In Bosnia, following Balkanization, people lacked heat and ...
Refugees International | Refugees International | Posted 10.13.2009 | Home
(Goma, Democratic Republic of Congo, October 13, 2009) - The Congolese government's military operation in eastern Congo, Kimia II, backed by United N...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.13.2009 | World
Reported have said that joint military operations between Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo have been a catastrophic failure. Now satellite imagery of the Busurungi area in North Kivu clearly shows burned villages.
David Sullivan | Posted 10.08.2009 | World
We've all heard of Conflict Diamonds by now. But a troubling, less visible crisis haunts objects we use everyday. Here is everything you need to know about the next big issue: Conflict Minerals.
AP | GODFREY OLUKYA and RUKMINI CALLIMACHI | Posted 10.06.2009 | World
KAMPALA, Uganda — A top suspect wanted for orchestrating the killings of thousands of people in Rwanda's 1994 genocide – including childre...
Joseph Sebarenzi | Posted 10.01.2009 | World
For Rwanda to thrive, economic performance, for which President Kagame deserves credit, must be coupled with political reconciliation and strong democratic institutions.
Rob Spillman | Posted 09.18.2009 | Media
Uwem Akpan, a Nigerian Jesuit priest, is a maudlin, sappy writer, whose book only reinforces Western stereotypes about Africa.
Joel B. Schwartzberg | Posted 09.11.2009 | World
OW on PBS host David Brancaccio interviews Rwandan President Paul Kagame about why he believes universal health care in Rwanda is crucial for the country's social, political, and economic advancement.
Josh Ruxin | Posted 11.08.2009 | World
Located at the epicenter of Rwanda's genocide, Ngeruka is a rural community that faces an array of health problems compounded by the fact that there is merely one small four-room health post servicing the entire community.
Pres. Paul Kagame | Posted 09.27.2009 | World
It is information technology, above all else, that has lifted the shroud of silence that, at one time, obscured the heinous acts of a few deranged men. The world has fewer excuses for intolerance and poverty.
Josh Ruxin | Posted 09.26.2009 | World
In Rwanda, the most effective programs constitute a true partnership between donors with funds, equipment, and skills, and the communities who need them.
The Onion | The Onion | Posted 09.25.2009 | Home
KIGALI, RWANDA—"Always remember to keep things light and breezy when mingling," said real estate heiress Danielle Watters as she advised a group...
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.19.2009 | World
This is going out to the end of a very long limb, but contrary to the rumblings in progressive think tanks, let's suggest that AFRICOM must be given a chance in eastern Congo.
Wayne Besen | Posted 09.13.2009 | Politics
Americans are human beings, just like everyone else. The notion that what we say does not matter "because it could never happen here" is jingoistic foolishness.
Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.03.2009 | World
I know you won't have a lot of free time when you visit the DRC, so perhaps you could skip some interviews and visit eastern Congo. The people there believe that you will help them.
Judy Flumenbaum | Posted 08.30.2009 | World
For one week in May, we lived and worked at the beautiful Agahozo Shalom Youth Village in rural Rwanda. The youth village houses 125 teenagers who were orphaned by the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Slate | Posted 08.27.2009 | World
Only a fool would be surprised by the series of explosions that occurred July 14 on the outskirts of the village of Khirbet Slem in southern Lebanon. ...
Betwa Sharma | Posted 08.27.2009 | World
Millions died not because the right doctrine was missing. There was no political will to act. The Council did not need R2P to intervene in Rwanda and it doesn't need it now.
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Josh Ruxin | Posted 11.09.2009 | Books