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In 1959, three years before independence from Belgium, the majority ethnic group, the Hutus, overthrew the ruling Tutsi king. Over the next several years, thousands of Tutsis were killed, and some 150,000 driven into exile in neighboring countries. The children of these exiles later formed a rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, and began a civil war in 1990. The war, along with several political and economic upheavals, exacerbated ethnic tensions, culminating in April 1994 in the genocide of roughly 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. The Tutsi rebels defeated the Hutu regime and ended the killing in July 1994, but approximately 2 million Hutu refugees - many fearing Tutsi retribution - fled to neighboring Burundi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zaire. Since then, most of the refugees have returned to Rwanda. Despite substantial international assistance and political reforms - including Rwanda's first local elections in March 1999 - the country continues to struggle to boost investment and agricultural output and to foster reconciliation. A series of massive population displacements, a nagging Hutu extremist insurgency, and Rwandan involvement in two wars over the past four years in the neighboring DROC continue to hinder Rwanda's efforts.

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Fri. July 25, 2008

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Simba, who sailed through at the expense of title-holders Rwanda's APR on Tuesday, swing back into action today when they face Uganda's URA in the first ...
It took the globalized horror of the killing fields of the 90's - the tragedy of Bosnia, the agony of Rwanda, the brutalized women and children of Sierra ...
APR's Dutch coach Rene Feller's troubles seems to be increasing day by day here in Dar es salaam where the army side where ejected from the on going ...
Rwanda's hopes of having one of her two teams progress to the semi-finals of the on-going Cecafa/Kagame cup ended yesterday with the elimination of Rayon ...

The assailants were members of the Interahamwe militia that had carried out the genocide in Rwanda. They had hacked their victims to death with machetes or ...
A new Human Rights Watch (HRW) report reveals that the rebel CNDP is one of the militias that are still getting support from elements within the Rwandan ...
KIGALI, July 24 (Moneybiz)--Rwanda has earned US$15 million from 5.512 tonnes of coffee exports in the first half of this year, the Rwanda Coffee Authority ...
So far a total of € 25 million has been contributed for fighting rural poverty and improving local governance in Rwanda. The 'Ubudehe' programme empowers ...
By MICHAEL GERSON KIGALI, Rwanda -- Cindy McCain's first visit to this country in 1994 was during the high season of roadblocks and machetes and shallow ...
Rwanda: Rwanda HAS threatened to withdraw its 3000 peacekeepers from a UN-backed mission in the Darfur region of Sudan if the United Nations refuses to ...
Symington said he would work to foster a lasting peace in Rwanda, The Republic of the Congo and surrounding areas. "The clear goal is to turn this part of ...
By David Muwanga THE Rwanda government is seeking a third national telecom operator after the duopoly period for the current operators expired in June. ...
Former VOA reporter in Kigali Ms Lucie Umukundwa left Rwanda in 2006 claiming her life was in danger - and puts some blame on the High Council of the Press ...
In the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide, former Toronto Star reporter Allan Thompson started a project in the African country to train local journalists. ...
Rwanda is not acting in isolation. The initiative is in line with the existing East Africa load limit. Other regional blocs such as Comesa and SADC are also ...
Another former Rwanda national team coach Ratomir Dujkovic is also interesting Mulindwa however, his wage (presumed to be very high) could be the only ...
TOP officials in the National University of Rwanda are involved in a quite but rocking scandal that is likely to prompt government intervention. ...
The search for gold in Rwanda has started in Gicumbi District in the Northern Province, by TransAfrika Resources, an international exploration company. ...
Rwanda's Olympics team will undergo a mandatory dope test ahead of the Beijing Games set for August 8 to 24 in China. The Chef de Mission of the Rwandan ...
The article in Daily Monitor makes good reading until one comes to where the author turns his attention to Rwanda. He not only goes off the mark, ...
Rwanda's failure to compete in international competitions in recent years has led to a drop in the latest world (FIVB) rankings. Rwanda is ranked 45th in ...
The government of Rwanda will continue cooperating and supporting the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda in Arusha, Tanzania, despite its mandate ...
Four men are current awaiting a decision by the British government for extradition to Rwanda on Genocide. They include Dr. Vincent Bajinya, ...
By Rebecca Wanjiku , IDG News Service , 07/22/2008 The government of Rwanda has kept its promise to spearhead local content generation by launching an ...
The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, created in 1995 in neighboring Tanzania, has secured the arrest of more than 70 people accused of high-level ...
July 23, 2008: KCB Bank entry into Rwanda began to take shape yesterday after the bank started a search for a managing director for the subsidiary. ...
Shocked by what President Bill Clinton termed possibly the world's "worst humanitarian crisis in a generation", the US plunged into the Rwandan tragedy ...
In the interim, the UN created special tribunals to deal with atrocities committed in Rwanda and Yugoslavia. Based in The Hague, the International Criminal ...
July 23, 2008: Kenol/Kobil has made another acquisition in the Rwandan market as it races to diversify its earnings away from the Kenyan market. ...
The fragile nature of Rwandan society should never become an excuse to maintain unnecessary controls on political party activities as this makes them ...
By Rick Hampson, USA TODAY KIGALI, Rwanda - On the last day of spring, Tom Wheeler left home in Southern California with his wife, his two kids and two ...
By ANDREA HOLBROOK Everything about Rwanda was a surprise to me. Like most visitors to Rwanda, I went for the gorillas. In the mountains of this Central ...
... Texas has received a US$1.2 million grant from the Bridgeway Foundation to develop a library system to preserve records of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. ...
By Doug Benc, Getty Images By Rick Hampson, USA TODAY MASAKA, Rwanda - Her trip may not be as high-profile as another world tour underway right now, ...
The church is allegedly being built in a wetland, which makes it incompatible with the standards set by Rwanda Environment Management Authority (REMA). ...

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