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	Rwanda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rwanda's countryside is covered by grasslands and small farms extending over rolling hills, with areas of rugged mountains that extend southeast from a chain of volcanoes in the northwest.
		Rwanda is considered the lightning capital of the world, due to intense daily thunderstorms during the two rainy seasons (February-May and September-December).
		Rwanda is a rural country with about 90% of the population engaged in (mainly subsistence) agriculture.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rwanda (1566 words)

	II Journal: Rwanda: The Politics of Turmoil
		On April 6 a plane was shot down as it sought to land at the airport in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda, in central Africa.
		The core of the invading force was formed by descendants of refugees who had fled Rwanda during the revolution of 1959-62, when a monarchy under a Tutsi dynasty was overthrown and a republican regime under Hutu leaders was established in its place.
		Rwanda relies for a very significant portion of its foreign exchange earnings on coffee exports; since coffee is produced by small-scale producers, hundreds of thousands of families were directly affected.
	www.umich.edu /~iinet/journal/vol1no2/newbury.html (1763 words)

	Chapter 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Ideologically and politically, the BBTG represented a frontal attack on the power base erected by the Habyarimana government during twenty years of ruling the country _- a denial of authoritarian rule, of "Hutu power", and especially north-western-based Hutu power, which was the regional constituency and political backbone of the regime.
		The political scene in Kigali in 1992-93 was admittedly complex, and a flurry of rumors and propaganda further complicated the picture.
		Rwanda was also discussed in several thematic reports presented to the Commission as a whole in 1992 and 1993.48 In early 1993, human rights groups in Rwanda asked the Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions, Mr.
	www.reliefweb.int /library/nordic/book2/pb021f.html (7787 words)

	afrol News - Rwanda joins chemical weapons convention
		With Rwanda joining the convention, the African Union is getting closer to its goal of establishing a chemical weapons-free zone in Africa.
		On 31 March, the Rwandan government deposited its instrument of ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) with the UN Secretary-General, the Depositary of the Convention.
		Rwanda now joins the other 161 state parties - including 40 African countries - that are member states of the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW), bringing the goal of a chemical weapons-free world and a chemical weapons-free zone in Africa a step closer, OPCW report today.
	www.afrol.com /articles/12021 (407 words)

	RWANDA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Rwanda is a rural country with about 90% of the population engaged in agriculture.
		Canadian General Romeo Dallaire, head of the U.N. peacekeeping force in Rwanda, is told by headquarters not to intervene and to avoid armed conflict.
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	www.yotor.org /wiki/en/rw/Rwanda.htm (645 words)

	afrol News - Rwanda News
		Misanet / IRIN, 22 November - A French judge is in Rwanda to investigate accusations that France helped the former pro-Hutu administration in its attempt to exterminate Tutsis during the 1994 genocide, a French diplomat told the UN media 'IRIN' today.
		Rwanda now holds the "world record" with 48.8 percent of women in its Lower House, while the Mozambican parliament is number two in Africa, although somewhat behind the Nordic countries.
		While the UN insists on an ongoing Rwandan "covert presence" on the Congolese side of the border, the African Union is preparing key moves to ease tensions between Rwanda and Congo.
	www.afrol.com /countries/rwanda/news (1032 words)

	the impact of civil war on politics in great lakes
		Political ideologies, forms of executives, elections, civil and political freedom are summarized in one sentence: military rule, coercion and arbitrary This essay will comprise two parts: a brief post-colonial history of the civil wars in these three countries and the compared impact of the civil war on the politics.
		Rwanda and Burundi, prior to independence were highly stratified societies with power gravitating in the hands of a traditional aristocracy.
		The civil war impact on politics is such as the normal functioning of institutions is impossible without the interference of the army.
	www.geocities.com /shabani4u/warriors.html (3848 words)

	Rwanda Information Exchange (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		He was assisted in writing this song by his friend Glenn Hawkes, who heads up the organization, Rwandans and Americans in Partnership, to which part of the proceeds of this CD are being contributed.
		Rehema is a lively Rwanda traditional-style dance tune which tells the story of a young Christian man who falls in love with a Muslim girl.
		Rwanda Rwiza is dedicated to "Beautiful Rwanda." Tuzagera is national gospel-tinged song performed in a straight-ahead soukous dance style.
	www.rwanda.net /english/News/2004/news062001/news06072004b.htm (618 words)

	Press release - No.176
		With women now comprising 48.8% of the National Assembly of Rwanda, the country has come the closest to reaching parity between men and women of any national parliament, and replaces the long-time champion, Sweden, where women comprise 45% of the national parliament.
		It is also clear that Rwandan women are enthusiastic about political process and keen to be party to it, and that there is a general political recognition of the need to have women on board.
		"The success of women in politics in the Nordic countries, for example, has long been attributed to a culture which fundamentally values the equality of women in all sectors of society, be it in the world of paid work, schools and universities, or at home.
	www.ipu.org /press-e/gen176.htm (600 words)

	Rwanda - History and Politics
		The result was a stalemate, with the RPF holding Rwanda 's northern Byumba province and the government unable to capture it, but the RPF equally unable to advance on Kigali.
		Jallow visited Rwanda in August 2004 and reiterated his position that those convicted of genocide by the ICTR would not serve their sentences in Rwanda.
		His objection is based on the fact that Rwanda still has a death sentence, while the maximum penalty from the ICTR is life imprisonment.
	www.iss.co.za /AF/profiles/Rwanda/Politics.html (1588 words)

	WOMEN BREAK INTO AFRICAN POLITICS
		Rwanda's success in bringing women to the political table mirrors that of a small, but growing number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa.
		However, while introducing quotas provides a means of addressing the gender imbalance in decision-making, the practice often lacks support from important political actors or meets opposition in societies that have strong patriarchal traditions.
		The IDEA institute in Stockholm argues women politicians around the world are at a disadvantage in terms of financial resources, since women are a majority of the world's poor and in many patriarchal societies cannot own property and do not have money of their own.
	www.peacewomen.org /news/Rwanda/May04/Womeninpolitics.html (1646 words)

	spiked-politics \| Article \| Rewriting Rwanda
		Politically motivated violence erupted in Rwanda upon the news that the president had been killed.
		Rwanda's domestic opposition parties were thrown into disarray by the strengthening of the RPF, and by the positions it attained in the Western-backed Arusha Accords.
		The war with the RPF was conditioned by external actors, as was the Arusha 'peace process'; various actors inside Rwanda began to place more importance upon their relationship with the international community than on the question of accountability to their own people.
	www.spiked-online.com /articles/0000000CA4BD.htm (3587 words)

	Facts about topic: (Politics of Rwanda) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Called The Broad Based Government of National Unity, its fundamental law is based on a combination of the constitution, the Arusha accords, and political declarations by the parties.
		The prison population will continue to be an urgent problem for the foreseeable future, having swelled to more than 100,000 in the 3 years after the war.
		Rwanda (A landlocked republic in central Africa; formerly a German colony)
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/p/po/politics_of_rwanda.htm (557 words)

	frontline: ghosts of rwanda: interviews: madeleine albright \| PBS
		She was the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. at the time of the genocide and later served as secretary of state in the Clinton administration.
		In Rwanda, there was not a similar strong voice at that level within the administration.
		The tragedy in Rwanda was so quick, that I am not sure there was time for a major voice in it.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/ghosts/interviews/albright.html (4308 words)

	It's All Politics :: Hotel Rwanda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Anyway, the incidents that happened in Rwanda in 1994 were very frightening for the people involved.
		The war in Africa, Rwanda genocide was a part of it, is still going on.
		Rwanda has nothing that the rest of the world really needs........and they were fls in Africa.
	www.itsallpolitics.com /-vp64720.html (2735 words)

	Women break into African politics : Quota systems allow more women to gain elected office
		Women in Rwanda now top the world rankings of women in national parliaments, with 49 per cent of representation compared to a world average of 15.1 per cent.
		While the Zambian government has ratified a number of international instruments to promote women in politics, the group reports, none "have been domesticated." Cultural and traditional practices subjecting women to male dominance have also hindered women's progress in achieving gender equality in politics.
		"Political life is organized for male norms and values and in many cases even for male life-styles," notes Ms.
	www.un.org /ecosocdev/geninfo/afrec/vol18no1/181women.htm (1693 words)

	African Studies: Rwanda
		Rwanda's candidates in quotes (August 22, 2003) -- elections and related stories.
		Genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity: topical digests of the case law of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia.
		Rwanda: the search for security and human rights abuses, April 2000= Rwanda: de la recherche de la sécurité aux abus des droits de l'homme.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/RWrights.html (1642 words)

	Rwanda on the Internet - Stanford University
		Ferroggiaro, William - The U.S. and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994.
		The U.S. and the Genocide in Rwanda 1994
		Rutagara "risked his life and reached out across ethnic and political boundaries to preserve precious habitat for [Rwanda's Volcano National Park's] 355 mountain gorillas, about half the number remaining worldwide." The Goldman Prize, the world's largest prize program honoring grassroots environmentalists, is based in San Francisco, CA.
	www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/ssrg/africa/rwanda.html (6916 words)

	Latest news from Rwanda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The President of the Republic of Rwanda, H.E. Paul Kagame on Saturday held a daylong meeting with over four hundred Rwandans resident in Belgium, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom.
		During the meeting, President Kagame, cabinet ministers and members of the Unity and Reconciliation, and Constitutional commissions briefed the Diaspora community on a wide range of major policy issues, particularly the domestic economy, the poverty reduction programme, investment, the unity and reconciliation programme, governance reforms, justice and gacaca.
		He said that the politics of Rwanda today are, "politics of unity and equal rights for all." He said that the Government of National Unity would strongly oppose anyone who attempts to return Rwanda to the same path of sectarianism that led to the genocide.
	www.gov.rw /government/250103.html (448 words)

	Genocide in Rwanda and Nigeria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		It is not the intention of this rejoinder to comment on the absurd and irresponsible charge of genocide against Chief Bola Ige, but to counter the distortion of history attempted in the two articles.
		In the first place, the Tutsi elite of Rwanda was not in power in 1963, when the Kayibanda regime organised the massacre of the Tutsis.
		In fact, between the invasion of a peaceful Rwanda in 1990 and before the genocide against Tutsis in 1994, more than 50,000 Hutus (according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees and The Vatican) were killed in the country as a result of the war.
	www.nigerdeltacongress.com /garticles/genocide_in_rwanda_and_nigeria.htm (2198 words)

	Latest News From Rwanda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		The President of the Republic of Rwanda, H.E. Paul Kagame has said that freedom of expression and political pluralism should not be interpreted as a licence to promote sectarianism in Rwanda.
		One cannot practice politics that incites one section of the population against another.
		It cannot be any kind of politics, including the type of politics that would bring chaos to the country or return us to another situation of Genocide.
	www.gov.rw /government/07_11_01_freedom.htm (297 words)

	Rwanda Timeline, 21st Century
		Rwanda commission is to investigate France's role in the mass killing of Tutsis and moderate Hutus in 1994
		Panel said that Rwanda uses security concerns as an excuse to keep its troops in Congo and exploit the mineral riches
		Rwanda and Uganda agreed to crack down on cross-border support for dissidents
	www.mapreport.com /countries/rwanda.html (945 words)

	Rwanda Government & Politics News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Countries of the region - Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda - are joined by the...
		resources is of pressing concern on the political front, however, as it jeopardises efforts to...
		Countries of the region Burundi, Rwanda and Uganda are joined by the...
	www.einnews.com /rwanda/newsfeed-Rwanda-Government-Politics (1330 words)

	RWANDA POLITICS
		Bizimungu, a Hutu who had been Rwanda's president since 1994, stepped down last month in a dispute with leading members of the ruling party, partly over the make-up of a new cabinet.
		Kagame, who led the rebel army that ended the nation's bloody genocide and ousted the former Hutu government in 1994, will officially take the oath of office in a ceremony on Saturday.
		He becomes the country's first Tutsi head of state since Rwanda's independence from Belgium in 1962.
	globalsecurity.org /military/library/news/2000/04/000417-rwanda1.htm (260 words)

	Rwanda News - Media Monitoring Service by EIN News
		Rwanda: Lack of Expertise a Challenge for RURA - New Boss
		Rwanda asks France to extradite Catholic priest over genocide charges
		IMF to Extend 100 Percent Debt Relief to Rwanda Under the Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative
	www.einnews.com /rwanda (379 words)

	Rwandan Politics
		Has the full text of a 1998 open letter to the Pope re Rwanda.
		Had information on the Senate Commission d'enquête parlementaire concernant les evenements du Rwanda including the full text of the Rapport fait au nom de la Commission d'enquête par MM.
		Created November 25,1994, members are from "political parties which did not participate in the genocide: RPF, MDR, PDC, PDI, PL, PSD, PSR, UDPR and representatives of the Rwandese Patriotic Army." Information on Assembly Members, legislative procedures, summary of proceedings, the Agenda, contact information for Assembly officers.
	www.empereur.com /nations/rwanda/rwandainfo.html (4619 words)

	Rwanda
		28 Jan 1961 Rwandan Republic (or Republic of Rwanda).
		Note: ethnic groups, which play a preeminent role in politics, are listed in parentheses following names where known i.e.
		International Disputes: Tutsi, Hutu and other ethnic groups, political rebels, and various government forces continue fighting in Great Lakes region, transcending the boundaries of Burundi, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwanda, and Uganda.
	www.worldstatesmen.org /Rwanda.htm (781 words)

	In Rwanda We Say... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		THE FAMILY THAT DOES NOT SPEAK DIES is an important, intimate and fascinating examination of how, and whether, people can overcome fear, hatred and deep emotional scars after genocide, to forge a common future.
		Over the past several years award-winning filmmaker Anne Aghion has traveled to rural Rwanda to chart the progress and impact of the ethnic reconciliation programs there.
		Gacaca: Ventures into the rural heart of the African nation of Rwanda to follow the first steps in one of the world's boldest experiments in reconciliation: the Gacaca (Ga-CHA-cha) Tribunals.
	www.frif.com /new2004/inrw.html (618 words)

	Rwanda encyclopedia : Cultural Information , Maps, Rwanda politics and officials, Rwanda History. Travel to Rwanda
		Rwanda encyclopedia : Cultural Information, Maps, Rwanda politics and officials, Rwanda History.
		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.
		Despite substantial international assistance and political reforms - including Rwanda's first local elections in March 1999 and its first post-genocide presidential and legislative elections in August and September 2003, respectively - the country continues to struggle to boost investment and agricultural output and to foster reconciliation.
	www.rwandaiworld.com (479 words)

	rwanda.ca - rwanda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
		Archbishop of Rwanda to install the Rev. James Murphy
		Like the archbishop of Rwanda, who will install him as rector of a growing New Bern congregation, the Rev. James Murphy can?t help but look back to look forward.
		For years, United Nations diplomats were notorious for running up millions of dollars in parking tickets, then just...
	www.rwanda.ca /rwanda/reference/search (289 words)

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