Rwandan reporters are using journalism to promote peace, recover and reunite.
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Reporters and editors in Rwanda saw themselves as unifiers, and that meant working to promote unity and reconciliation.
Rwandan peacekeepers in Mali in 2014.
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Interviews with Rwandan women from the military who had served on peacekeeping missions found many felt ill-equipped for what they had to deal with.
A Tamil man who was paralyzed by shelling during the final weeks of the conflict in Mullivaikkal in 2009 is seen in this 2018 photo in the Eastern Province of Sri Lanka.
Priya Tharmaseelan
This spring marks the 25th anniversary of the Rwandan genocide and the 10th year since the Tamil genocide in Sri Lanka. The world knows what happened in Rwanda. What about Sri Lanka?
Traditional non-alcoholic and alcoholic beverages are made from locally available produce - like bananas.
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Although still hugely popular in rural areas, we found that there is little or no support from the government to develop the local brew industry because it’s viewed as unhygienic and hard to tax.
Access to finance is consistently listed as the biggest obstacle for start-ups Africa.
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Some entrepreneurship support models work better than others. Governance and structure is key to their success, or failure.
South African politician Julius Malema often attacks journalists.
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For democracy to work, the press has to be free.
Security is tight in Rwanda’s authoritarian state.
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Rwanda has overcome its past to become a development miracle but if it’s not careful, history could repeat itself.
Doctors at a hospital in Kisumu, Kenya.
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East African countries use a scorecard to monitor maternal and child health progress in the region.
There are about 600 Mountain gorillas left in the Virunga Volcanoes.
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In Rwanda gorillas have been leaving protected areas to raid sodium rich crops.
Inside the Genocide Memorial Church in Karongi-Kibuye - Western Rwanda. 11,000 people were killed here during the 1994 genocide.
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Although many years have passed, the Rwandan genocide still has much to teach us about the centrality of media in cases of state violence.
Speaker of Rwanda’s Chamber of Deputies Donatille Mukabalisa on international women’s day. Rwanda is a trend-setter in female representation.
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In many African states power is concentrated in the executive branch. That’s why women’s representation in cabinet matters.
Young family practising dressmaking in a vocational training centre in Kakuma refugee camp.
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Refugee self-reliance is a laudable goal, yet self-reliance agendas must account for refugees’ individual circumstances.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame. Rwanda has a booming economy that is controlled by an authoritarian regime
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Rwanda is a paradox – a ‘development miracle’ and an authoritarian state.
Tools like the WHO checklist can lead to better surgical outcomes in countries with limited resources.
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Research found that only a quarter of anaesthetists working in main referral hospitals in East Africa used the WHO safe surgical checklist.
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The concept of ‘agaciro’ is central to how Rwanda engages with the international community and promotes its state interests.
Tens of thousands fled the DRC during fighting between rebels and government troops.
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The lengthy nature of some of Africa’s wars is one of the main hindrances to ending the “refugee cycle”.
Cage farming is when fish are raised and harvested in a netted enclosure.
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With proper regulation, Lake Victoria’s fisheries could increase production without damaging wild stocks or the environment.
Kigeme refugee camp in Rwanda.
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While refugees in Rwanda have the right to freedom of movement and work, in practice it’s difficult for them.
The race is on to find a new head of the World Bank following Jim Yong Kim’s resignation.
EPA-EFE/Made Nagi
The power dynamics in the World Bank have changed dramatically.
Photographs of people murdered during the 1994 genocide are displayed at the Kigali Memorial Centre in Rwanda.
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Despite the adoption of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide of 1948, signatories have never made an effort to end mass killings.