Rwanda

Page: << 1 2 3 4 5 6 7

Rwandan Massacres Planner, Theoneste Bagosora, Convicted Of Genocide

AP | SUKHDEV CHHATBAR and DONNA BRYSON | Posted 01.18.2009 | World

Read More: Rwanda, Genocide, Rwanda Genocide, Theoneste Bagosora, Rwanda Genocide Guilty, Crimes Against Humanity, United Nations Tribunal, World News

ARUSHA, Tanzania — A former Rwandan army colonel was convicted Thursday of genocide and crimes against humanity for masterminding the killings o...

Read Whole Story

Rwandan Musician Convicted of Genocide for Making Songs of Hate

Sean Jacobs | Posted 01.15.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Rwanda Genocide, Africa, Simon Bikindi, Genocide, Rwandan Genocide, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Rwanda, 1994 Rwandan Genocide, Tutsis, Hutus, Entertainment News

The New York Times reports that a famous Rwandan musician, Simon Bikindi, has been convicted of incitement to genocide.

Read Post

Exclusive: Christiane Amanpour On Her Genocide Documentary, International Reporting and New Media

Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 01.04.2009 | World

Read More: Rwanda, Christiane Amanpour Documentary, International News, Cambodia Genocide, Coverage of International News, Bloggers, Media Coverage, Darfur, Rwanda Genocide, Christiane Amanpour, Genocide, Bosnia Genocide, Scream Bloody Murder, New Media, Cambodia, Christiane Amanpour Genocide, World News

CNN's Christiane Amanpour has spent much of the last 20 years covering conflicts in every corner of the world. Her new documentary, Scream Bloody Murd...

Read Post

Rwanda Stirs Deadly Brew Of Troubles In Congo

New York Times | JEFFREY GETTLEMAN | Posted 01.04.2009 | World

Read More: Rwanda, Rwanda Congo, Africa, Rebel Soldiers Congo, Conflict in Congo, Rwanda-Congo Border, Congo, War in Congo, Eastern Congo, World News

KIGALI, Rwanda -- There is a general rule in Africa, if not across the world: Behind any rebellion with legs is usually a meddling neighbor. And wheth...

Read Whole Story

Looking to Rwanda for Lessons on Gender Equality

Andrea Friedman | Posted 01.03.2009 | World

Read More: Rwanda, Rwanda Women, Quotas, Women, Democracy, Conflict, Gender, Gender Equality, Rape, Genocide, Paul Kagame, Cabinet Posts, Rwanda Patriotic Front, Women in Government, 100 Days, World News

Rwanda is primarily known as the site of a horrific genocide. It is now the first country to have a majority of women in the legislature at 56%, up from a high of 18% before the conflict.

Read Post

What Obama Will Do for Africa: A Conversation with Salim Amin

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 01.03.2009 | World

Read More: Muslim World, Video Journalism, Salim Amin, Last King of Scotland, Cuban Missile Crisis, Somalia, News Xchange, Media, Arab World, Reuters, Ethiopia, Gordon Brown, Saudi Arabia, Zanzibar, Mohamed Amin, Ethiopian Famine, Tanzania, Bob Geldof, Danny Glover, Africa, Somali Pirates, Palestine, Barack Obama, Tom Brokaw, New Media, Israel, Sudan, India, Julius Nyerere, Kenya, Idi Amin, Rwanda, a24, World News

At the News Xchange international broadcast conference... I talked with Salim Amin, a Kenyan and the founder of A24 Media, Africa's first online agency for video and photography.

Read Post

Rebuilding Life After Tragedy

Ariane de Bonvoisin | Posted 12.31.2008 | Home

Read More: Faith in God, Rwanda, Religion, Immaculee Illibagiza, Rwandan Genocide, Christianity, Forgiveness, Ariane De Bonvoisin, Faith, First 30 Days, Home News

Immaculée Ilibagiza grew up in Rwanda--a country divided by tribal allegiances. During the genocide in 1994, she was forced into hiding to avoid bein...

Read Post

Only in America

Margee Ensign | Posted 12.15.2008 | Media

Read More: Barack Obama, Obama Rwanda, Obama International Reaction, Rwanda, Election Reaction, Media News

These are just some of the comments we heard early in the morning on November 5th in Kigali, Rwanda when Barack Obama was declared President-elect of the United States.

Read Post

Obama and Africa: The Change We Have Been Waiting For?

Howard W. French | Posted 12.07.2008 | Politics

Read More: Clinton, Africa, Obama's Cabinet, Genocide, Obama, United States, China, Congo, Foreign Policy, Rwanda, Politics News

The 53 countries of Africa have remained profoundly attached to a vision of America as land of justice, opportunity and freedom. Obama's election will only make such feelings much more intense.

Read Post

Bwindi Gorillas Increasingly Threatened By Human Conflict

VBS.tv | Posted 12.04.2008 | Green

Read More: Drc, Endangered Animals, Uganda, Africa, Gorillas, Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Animals, Rwanda, Green News

VBS.tv just put up another excellent travel video series focusing on the gorilla population in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, where the borders of Ug...

Read Whole Story

How We Fuelled the Deadliest War in the World -- and It's Starting Again

Johann Hari | Posted 11.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rwanda, Cell Phones, Rape, Genocide, Africa, War, Election 2008, Congo, Politics News

The deadliest war since Adolf Hitler marched across Europe is starting again -- and you are almost certainly carrying a blood-soaked chunk of the slaughter in your pocket.

Read Post

Ending Malaria is Possible

Natasha F. Bilimoria | Posted 11.13.2008 | Politics

Read More: Malaria, The Global Fund, Millennium Development Goals, Rwanda, Mosquito Nets, Barack Obama, Politics News

Since 2002, the Global Fund has been committed to helping countries fight this deadly disease, and currently funds two-thirds of all malaria programs internationally.

Read Post

Next President Must Act On His Promise To End Genocide In Darfur

Susan Morgan | Posted 11.10.2008 | Home

Read More: Rwanda, Darfur, Presidential Debate, Bush Administration, Sudan, Genocide, United Nations Security Council, Political Rhetoric, Barack Obama, John McCain, Home News

During the debate, both presidential candidates acknowledged the moral imperative of acting in the face of genocide. "We may not always have national security issues at stake, but we have moral issues at stake," stated Obama.

Read Post

From Maggots to Cockroaches: One Small Step for Mankind?

Jane Wells | Posted 11.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Darfur, Rwanda, Vice Presidential Debate, Tom Daschle, Cindy McCain, Genocide, Sarah Palin, 100 Days, Politics News

It was a surprise to hear Governor Palin so vehemently declare "Never again" during last night's debate and instantly realize that she was neither re...

Read Post

Candidates Silent On Resource War In Congo

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.26.2008 | Home

Read More: Rwanda, Drc, Humanitarian Intervention, Resource War, Congo, Barack Obama, Darfur, Human Rights, Sudan, Genocide, Africa, Humanitarian Crisis, Humanitarian Aid, Democratic Republic of Congo, John McCain, Home News

Neither John McCain nor Barack Obama has addressed this great humanitarian breakdown in Congo, except in the context of political squabbling.

Read Post

Ambassador for All War Crimes Except Our Own

Charles J. Brown | Posted 10.23.2008 | Politics

Read More: Geneva Conventions, John Bolton, John Yoo, Human Rights Watch, Sri Lanka, Guantanamo, George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Iraq, Madeleine Albright, Dick Cheney, War Crimes, Condoleezza Rice, International Criminal Court, Timothy Flanigan, David Scheffer, Stephen Cambone, William J. Haynes, David Addington, Yugoslavia, Michael Chertoff, State Department, War on Terror, Jane Mayer, John Ashcroft, George Tenet, Cambodia, Clint Williamson, Alberto Gonzales, Rwanda, Torture, Icty, Ictr, George Bush, United Nations, 9/11, Human Rights Abuses, Convention on Torture, Abu Ghraib, Icc, Politics News

The Office of War Crimes Issues doesn't just tell other countries to do as we say and not as we do. The Administration has actually made OWCI complicit of its own war crimes apparatus.

Read Post

Top 10 Reasons to Become A New Radical

Julia Moulden | Posted 10.21.2008 | Business

With all the turmoil in the markets, it seems time to write again about people who are doing good works in the financial sector.

Read Post

"Women, Power and Politics": How Have Women in Politics Changed the U.S. and the World?

Maria Hinojosa | Posted 10.20.2008 | Media

Read More: Ashley Judd, Chile, Rwanda, Women, Michelle Obama, Tina Brown, Woman, Sarah Palin Vice President, Girls, Politics, Sherry Lansing, Maria Bartiromo, Sarah Palin, Women and Politics, Michele Bachelet, Jeanne Shaheen, Maya Angelou, Sarah Palin Reaction, Media News

For me, Palin's nomination raises a significant question: Is a woman candidate always a women's candidate? How would she fight for women's causes?

Read Post

(RED) at Work in Rwanda

Susan Smith Ellis | Posted 09.18.2008 | Living

Read More: HIV/AIDS, Rwanda, Product (Red), AIDS in Africa, (RED), 100 Days, Living News

I've just returned from my first visit to Rwanda, where (RED) funds have been hard at work. A friend once told me that Rwanda either breaks your heart or fills you with hope. I came away hopeful.

Read Post

Can Travel Change the World?

Klara Glowczewska | Posted 10.16.2008 | Style

Read More: Rwanda, Charity Organizations, Ashley Judd, Conde Nast Traveler Five and Alive Fund, Conde Nast Traveler, Population Services International, Style News

I'd never traveled like this before, with this sort of purpose. Many of our readers, it turns out, have already found the same satisfaction.

Read Post

Diary From Rwanda: Day Four

DivineCaroline.com | Lisa Nastasi, Ph.D. | Posted 10.01.2008 | Living

Read More: Rwanda, The Giving Life, Living News

On day four of our trip, we visit a valley in Kayonza, a province about two hours north of Kigali, and home to Women for Women International's Agribus...

Read Whole Story

Diary From Rwanda: Day Two

DivineCaroline.com | Lisa Nastasi, Ph.D. | Posted 09.24.2008 | Living

Read More: Women for Women International, Trial, The Giving Life, Gacaca Court, Women for Women, Rwandan Genocide, Gacaca System, Rwanda, Living News

Read Diary From Rwanda: Day One here The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong."--Mahatma Ghandi On Tuesday morning, we...

Read Whole Story

Diary From Rwanda: One Woman's Story

DivineCaroline.com | Lisa Nastasi, Ph.D. | Posted 09.22.2008 | Living

Read More: Rwanda, Rwandan Genocide, Women for Women International, Women for Women, The Giving Life, Living News

A year ago, I was invited to join a very special group of women in London in supporting the multiple award-winning NGO, Women for Women International....

Read Whole Story

Witness to Rape in Congo: "What is the Future When the Heart of the Community is Broken?"

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 09.06.2008 | Politics

Read More: Plundering, Rape, Post Traumatic Stress, Genocide, War, Eve Ensler, Strategic Interests, Congo, Rwanda, Drc, Politics News

Image: Kivu 2007 © G. Nienaber On August 1, the BBC reported very troubling news that Congolese government forces and rebel troops in Eastern Demo...

Read Post

Traveling With Bill Clinton in Africa

Mark Leon Goldberg | Posted 08.10.2008 | Politics

Read More: Rwanda, Bill Clinton, Ethiopia, Africa, Bill Clinton Africa, Bill Clinton Africa Trip, Politics News

As I travel throughout Africa and Mexico with President Clinton this week I'll document how the donor community, UN agencies, the World Health Organization, and governments are shifting from disease-specific initiatives to strengthening public health systems.

Read Post