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Today's Rwanda headlines
from AllAfrica.com:
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Rusizi Achieves 80 Percent of Performing Contracts
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[News of Rwanda]In the evaluation program of the 2012/2013 performing contracts in Rusizi District, the governor for the Western Province of Rwanda Celestin Kabahizi announced that the district has achieved 80percent of the goals.
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South African Peacekeepers Chase Away Refugees - Report
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[News of Rwanda]Dozens of crying children and women have been locked out of a UN base manned by South African peacekeepers outside Goma in eastern Congo, despite a barrage of shooting and bombing close by.
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Ban Ki-Moon Visits Kigali Memorial Center
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[Focus]The UN secretary general Ban Ki-moon, who is on a visit in the region, yesterday visited Kigali Genocide Memorial Center where he laid a wreath on one of the tombs.
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World Bank, UN Chiefs Hail Rwanda's Gender Policies
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[New Times]UN Secretary General, Ban ki-Moon and World Bank president, Dr. Jim Yong Kim, have hailed Rwanda's commitment to end Gender Based Violence (GBV).
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Rwanda Leadership Inspires American Varsity Students
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[New Times]A delegation of 31 students and instructors from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania in the US has been inspired by Rwanda's leadership policies based on empowerment of citizens.
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We Failed in Rwanda, Says Ban Ki-Moon
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[New Times]The United Nations Secretary General, Ban Ki-Moon, has acknowledged his organisation's failure to quell the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi that claimed over one million lives.
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Nyagatare Tragedy - Engineers Form Parallel Probe Team
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[New Times]The Institute of Engineers of Rwanda has announced that it will carry out a parallel investigation into causes that led to the collapse of a four storey building under construction in Nyagatare District. This will be a second team after the Rwanda Housing Authority (RHA) announced a nine-man team to establish the cause of the tragedy on May 14.
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UN Chief and World Bank Head in Rwanda
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[New Times]The United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank President Dr. Jim Yong Kim have arrived in Rwanda today.
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Rwanda's New Anti-Poverty Agenda
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[Independent]The Rwanda Cabinet on May 8 approved the country's second Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS2), which seeks to boost economic growth and significantly lift many Rwandans out of poverty over the next five years.
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Fistula Patients Still Live in Hiding, Says Health Official
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[New Times]There are no statistics on the number of people suffering from fistula because many of them conceal their illness and shy away from the public, a Ministry of Health official has said.
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Rwanda genocide 20 years on: 'We live with those who killed our families. We are told they're sorry, but are they?'
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Nearly 20 years after the Rwandan genocide, Chris McGreal returns to Kibuye to meet the few Tutsis who survived – and some of the killers they are forced to live with as neighbours Lucie Niyigena's seven-year-old mind was a jumble of panic and confusion as she stepped over the brutalised, bleeding corpse of her grandfather and fled through the back door of her town's Catholic church. But, as ...
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Rwanda: Genocide Suspect Extradited From Norway to Stay in Custody
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[Hirondelle]Arusha -A Rwandan court on Wednesday granted a prosecutor's request to keep in custody a genocide suspect extradited from Norway.
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Congo, Rwanda Must Commit to Peace for World Bank’s $1 Billion
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World Bank President Jim Yong Kim said the lender’s $1 billion pledge to Africa’s Great Lakes region obliges countries including the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda to adhere to a peace accord signed in February.
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Team Rwanda: from genocide to the Olympics
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Twenty years after the genocide, Adrien Niyonshuti became the first Rwandan cyclist to compete in the Olympics. He tells Channel 4 News about his journey and his part in a new film about the team.
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Prosecutors seek delay in Rwanda case
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CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — Federal prosecutors have asked to delay the sentencing for a New Hampshire woman convicted of lying to obtain U.S. citizenship by denying her role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide. The Boston-based lawyers have been heavily involved in the response to last month's Boston Marathon bombings.
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Rwanda fends off DRC accusations
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KIGALE, Rwanda, May 20 (UPI) -- Rwandan President Paul Kagame said accusations that his government was backing militancy in neighboring DRC were off the mark.
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Rwanda expects to cut deficit to 5.5 pct of GDP in 2013/14 budget
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KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwanda expects its budget deficit for 2013/14 to fall to 5.5 percent of gross domestic product from 6.1 percent this fiscal year, although some donors have reduced or delayed aid for the country's budget, a government paper showed. The Budget Framework Paper, obtained by Reuters, also projected that Rwanda's economy would grow by 7.5 percent in both 2013 and 2014, after ...
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Prosecutors seek delay in Rwanda case against N.H. woman
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Federal prosecutors have asked for a delay in the sentencing of a New Hampshire woman convicted of lying about her role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide to obtain US citizenship. The Boston-based lawyers have been heavily involved in response to last month’s Boston Marathon bombings. Beatrice Munyenyezi was convicted in federal court in Concord in February. She faces up to 10 years in prison and ...
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Refugees 'sending wrong signal'
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Rwanda's high commissioner says fears of further persecution are misplaced: it is safe to return.
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BONESUPPORT AB Returns From Medical Mission To Rwanda
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LUND, Sweden, May 7, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- BONESUPPORT, an emerging leader in injectable bone substitutes for orthopedic trauma, bone infections and instrument augmentation related to orthopedic surgery, ...
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