Janine Umuhoza was seven years old in April 1994 when her parents were killed during the Rwandan genocide. As the eldest, and a lot sooner than she could have imagined, she became mother to her siblings in a country fraught with danger at the time. Now 17 years old, she still faces the challenges of providing food and basic necessities for the family.
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/ 19 February 2004
Rwanda is to release a large number of prisoners accused of participating in the country’s 1994 genocide who have confessed to their roles in massacres that claimed the lives of up to a million people, the chief prosecutor said on Wednesday. The release plan comes as Rwanda prepares to commemorate the 10th anniversary genocide.
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/ 15 February 2004
African leaders ended their summit in Rwanda on Saturday having adopted a unique peer review system aimed at allowing countries on the continent to judge the behaviour of fellow African states. ”The most important point is that we can now start evaluation,” Mozambican President Joachim Chissano said.
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/ 22 November 2003
The former head of a Rwandan rebel group operating in the Democratic Republic of Congo and blamed for Rwanda’s 1994 genocide has called on his former companions-in-arms to follow his example and surrender. But the Democratic Liberation Forces of Rwanda’s interim leader, Jean-Marie Vianney Higiro, does not agree.
President Paul Kagame criticised Western countries on Friday for putting pressure on him to allow political opponents to operate more freely ahead of elections scheduled to take place in the next two months.
More than 22 000 Rwandan prisoners, most of them suspects in the 1994 genocide, began returning home on Monday after undergoing a three-month ”re-education” course and spending several years in jail.
Nyagakaganga lay on his stomach, stroking his chin with an enormous palm before plucking off an insect and popping it into his mouth with obvious relish.
Former US President Bill Clinton on Wednesday said the world has a stake in helping Africans survive Aids and in using the knowledge gained to help other regions of the globe where the disease is growing at alarming rates.
Rwandan police have arrested two people in connection with the killing of two endangered mountain gorillas and the disappearance of an infant in the first incident of poaching in 17 years.