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	Rwanda Provinces
		Rwanda was part of German East Africa in 1900.
		The provinces are divided into thirty districts, which are subdivided into 418 secteurs administratifs (administrative sectors), which are further subdivided into 9,165 cellules (cells).
		Before 2006, Rwanda was divided into 12 provinces, which were divided into akarere (districts) and umujyi (municipalities), which in turn were divided into imirenge (sectors), which were divided into utugari (cells), which, finally, were divided into akagari (probably villages).
	www.statoids.com /urw.html (589 words)

	Provinces of Rwanda - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Provinces of Rwanda, called intara, are further divided into districts (akarere) and municipalities (umujyi).
		Prior to January 1, 2006, Rwanda was composed of twelve provinces; however, the Rwandan Government decided to establish new provinces in an attempt to address issues that arose from the Rwandan Genocide of 1994.
		Rwanda redrawn to reflect compass, BBC News, 3 January 2006
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Provinces_of_Rwanda (179 words)

	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 (1725 words)

	MapZones.com : Rwanda Map (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rwanda, republic in east-central Africa, bordered on the north by Uganda, on the east by Tanzania, on the south by Burundi, and on the west by Lake Kivu and the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaïre).
		The 2001 estimated population of Rwanda is 7,312,756.
		Rwanda's National Ballet and the Impala Orchestra add considerable lustre to the country's cultural life, the former through a choreography leaning heavily on traditional folk dances and the latter through a distinctly modern musical repertoire.
	atlas.mapzones.com /rwanda/rwanda.php (2125 words)

	Rwanda, Country Information
		The primary objectives of FACT are to fight torture in Rwanda and around the world and secondly, to contribute to the recognition and the rehabilitation of torture victims.
		However, the source emphasised that a “culture of silence” exists in Rwanda and considered this to be an expression of a “culture of fear”.
		Since then Rwanda Newsline and Umuseso both experienced serious economic difficulties caused by the withdrawal of advertisers, experienced the suspension of publication, and latterly, in January 2003 the Editor of Umuseso was arrested for publishing an article suggesting that former Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu would stand against President Paul Kagame in the forthcoming elections.
	www.ecoi.net /pub/ds523_02705rwa.htm (15283 words)

	ECCP
		One of the main threats to stability in Rwanda is the Hutu insurgency in the north-west of the country.
		The conflict in the north-west and Rwanda's involvement in the conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo is still a drain on the economy, however.
		1995; The Cohesion of Oppression - Clientship and Ethnicity in Rwanda, by Catharine Newbury.
	www.conflict-prevention.net /page.php?id=40&formid=73&action=show&surveyid=33 (5346 words)

	Rwanda - Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		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 also linked by road with other countries in East Africa, via which the majority of the country's imports and exports are made.
	goldbamboo.com /topic-t8648-a1-6Rwanda_.html (2338 words)

	Rwanda Information Exchange (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rwanda often uses the phrase negative forces to refer to the Rwandan Hutu extremists who slaughtered 800,000 minority Tutsi and moderate Hutu Rwandans and fled to Congo in 1994.
		Rwanda and Uganda invaded Congo in 1998, accusing Kinshasa of sheltering the killers responsible for Rwanda's genocide.
		Rwanda has justified the presence of its troops in the DRC as an effort to pursue the ex-FAR and Interahamwe in exile in the DRC.
	www.rwanda.net /english/News/news092002/nouv09212002.htm (1023 words)

	Rwanda Information Exchange (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The rebels, who include members of the former army and extremist Interahamwe militia from the Hutu ethnic majority, fled to Congo after leading the genocide of at least 500,000 minority Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus.
		The rebels operate from remote forest camps in lawless eastern Congo, where the central government is struggling to exert its authority.
		The meeting is also being attended by representatives of the U.N. mission in Congo, its refugee agency, the European Union and officials from Rwanda, Congo and Burundi.
	www.rwanda.net /english/News/2005/032005/news03152005e.htm (391 words)

	The Monitor :::: A counrty Profile ::: Rwanda - East of Africa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		However, with the promulgation of the new Constitution of the Republic of Rwanda of 4 june 2003; it stipulates that the Parliament of Rwanda is composed of two chambers; the Senate and the Chamber of Deputies.
		The Supreme Law, the Constitution of 4 June 2003 of the Republic of Rwanda as indicated in its preamble paragraph 2 shows the commitment of Deputies (Members of Parliament) in fighting against the crime of Genocide.
		Finally, it is a fact that the Parliament of Rwanda has played an important role in fighting against Genocide through passing relevant laws and mobilisation of the population regarding the crime of genocide.
	www.monitor.co.ug /specialincludes/mplsups/rwandagen/gen10.php (789 words)

	Rwanda, Landmine Monitor Report 2006
		Rwanda told Landmine Monitor in May 2005 that it is “willing to engage” in discussions among States Parties on matters of interpretation and implementation related to Articles 1, 2 and 3 of the Mine Ban Treaty.
		Rwanda has not in the past made known its views on issues related to assisting acts prohibited by the treaty, joint military operations with non-States Parties, foreign transit and stockpiling of antipersonnel mines, antivehicle mines with sensitive fuzes or antihandling devices, and the permissible number of mines retained for training.
		Rwanda is contaminated with mines and unexploded ordnance (UXO), resulting from the 1990-1994 Tutsi insurgency against the Hutu-dominated government and army, the 1994 genocide, the retreat of the army and Interahamwe militias to neighboring countries, and their subsequent attacks launched from the DRC in 1996-1998 in the northwest of the country.
	www.icbl.org /lm/country/rwanda (5540 words)

	UGANDA
		Gacaca courts began operating across Rwanda in March as part of the government's efforts to clear the regular national courts' massive backlog of cases relating to the country's 1994 genocide.
		Rwanda wants the return of more than 1,000 ethnic Hutus who fled to Uganda in March claiming political persecution and are currently housed at Nakivale camp 300 kilometres (186 miles) southwest of Kampala.
		Rwanda says the arrivals include suspects in the massacre of some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus, and that they are claiming political harassment to avoid prosecution by village courts hearing murder cases arising from the slaughter.
	www.opjdr.org /uganda1.htm (747 words)

	About Rwanda - Continued
		Many people who had had chance to visit Rwanda have been amused if not intrigued by the fact that Rwandans are harmoniously living together only 10 years after the Genocide that threatened to shatter the social fabric and destroy century- long interactions among Rwandans.
		A wide range of traditional handicrafts is produced in rural Rwanda, ranging from ceramics and basketry to traditional woodcarvings and contemporary paintings.
		Butare Province which is located in the southern, bordered with Burundi, you find the superb National Museum which houses the paramount ethnographic collection.
	www.ambarwanda.org.uk /about_03.php (393 words)

	Rwanda
		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.
		Rwanda is now a country in which women are rising to the forefront of economic, political and social institutions.
		After some time had passed, the women were faced with a decision of either collapsing of inconsolable pain, or moving on together to rebuild their lives.
	thepeacecompany.com /store/support/pggh_rwanda.php (613 words)

	Boston.com / News / World / Africa / Congo sends 5,000 troops to Rwanda border (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Congo on Monday denied claims by rival and neighbor Rwanda that it was massing troops for attack, and international diplomatic pressure built to avert what one African leader called a "potentially catastrophic war" in central Africa.
		Congo's defense minister told The Associated Press that his country was sending a total of 5,000 troops east to provinces bordering Rwanda, Congo's chief enemy in a devastating five-year central African war -- but insisted the deployment was to quell ex-rebels on Congo's soil, not to invade Rwanda.
		Rwanda's foreign minister charged Saturday that Congo's troop movements east were preparations for invasion.
	www.boston.com /news/world/africa/articles/2004/06/21/congo_sends_5000_troops_to_rwanda_border?mode=PF (842 words)

	Rwanda - Psychology Central
		The earliest known inhabitants of the region now known as Rwanda were the Pygmy and Twa.
		In 1992 the government and the RPF signed a cease-fire agreement known as the Arusha accords in Arusha, Tanzania to form a power sharing government, but fighting between the two sides continued.
		Rwanda's population density, even after the 1994 genocide, is among the highest in Sub-Saharan Africa.
	psychcentral.com /psypsych/Ruanda (1612 words)

	MAR \| Data \| Chronology for Tutsis in Rwanda (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A UN Assistance Mission in Rwanda (UNAMIR) is deployed consisting of 2,500 troops to monitor the Arusha accords reached between the RPF and Habyarimana in August.
		Rwanda's army denies that its troops were involved in a political assassination of a provincial governor.
		Rwanda’s economy has been shattered by years of conflict, but the government has vowed to repay all foreign debts incurred by previous regimes.
	www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/chronology.asp?groupId=51701 (8891 words)

	Rwanda (03/07)
		Less than 100,000 Rwandans are estimated to remain outside of Rwanda, and they are thought to be the remnants of the defeated army of the former genocidal government, its allies in the civilian militias known as Interahamwe, and soldiers recruited in the refugee camps before 1996.
		Rwanda’s landlocked situation necessitates strong highway infrastructure maintenance, and good transport linkages to neighboring countries, especially Uganda and Tanzania, are critical.
		Rwanda is an active member of the international community and has remained in the international spotlight since the genocide.
	www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/2861.htm (4094 words)

	Country Narrative - Rwanda
		Rwanda is a source country for children internally trafficked for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
		Rwanda has been placed on Tier 2 Watch List for not providing evidence of increasing efforts to combat severe forms of trafficking in persons from the previous year.
		Rwanda has no law specifically prohibiting trafficking in persons, but traffickers could be prosecuted under laws against slavery, forced prostitution, kidnapping, and child labor.
	gvnet.com /humantrafficking/Rwanda-2.htm (646 words)

	:: A.C.O.R.D: Agency for Co-operation and Research in Development
		Rwanda is one the poorest countries in the word.
		Rwanda still remains also on war foot and has many time in recent years been obliged to go for war with its neighbors countries especially DRC.
		The political context in Rwanda, traumatized by the legacy of the genocide and permanent fear of new eruption of social violence or under that pretext, is really leaving little space for social movement and civil society engagement.
	www.acord.org.uk /rwanda.htm (677 words)

	IDMC : Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre \| Countries \| Rwanda \| Population in Provinces affected by internal ...
		The Province of Gisenyi, with a population of over 860,000 inhabitants at the moment, is among those Provinces which registered significant gains in size during the past intercensal period.
		The highest concentrations of the population are toward the center of the Province, particularly, in the Districts of the Ruhengeri municipality (1102 persons/km2), Mutobo (718 persons/km2) and Bugarura (651 persons/km2) as well as toward the north, in the District of Bukamba (663 persons/km2).
		In fact, the both Provinces fail within the same geo-ecological environment and are inhabited by peoples who have identical traditions and socio-demographic behaviour and who lived through the events of the 1990s and their aftermath, in the same way.
	www.internal-displacement.org /idmc/website/countries.nsf/(httpEnvelopes)/DEEBAB2DC0B24F41802570B8005AAEE1?OpenDocument (1038 words)

	Daily News - Congo says no plans to attack Rwanda
		Congo's defence minister said his country was sending 5 000 soldiers to provinces bordering Rwanda, Congo's chief enemy in a devastating five-year central African war - but he insisted the deployment was to quell ex-rebels on Congo's soil, not to invade Rwanda.
		The assurances came after three weeks of accusations, counter-accusations and denials between Rwanda and Congo, foes in a 1998-2002 war fought in Congo.
		Rwanda's foreign minister said on Saturday that Congo's troop movements east were preparations for invasion.
	www.dailynews.co.za /index.php?fSectionId=501&fArticleId=2122379 (360 words)

	IRIN Africa \| Great Lakes \| DRC Rwanda \| DRC-RWANDA: Kigali threatens to attack Hutu rebels in Congo \| Conflict \| ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rwanda previously invaded eastern DRC in 1996 and 1998.
		Rwanda has been calling for a stronger UN Security Council resolution that would enable the UN troops in Congo to use force to disarm the Rwandan Hutu rebels and repatriate them.
		Rwanda's latest threat of intervention came a day after the Council delegation, visiting the Congolese town of Bukavu on Tuesday, appealed to the FDLR to give up their weapons and accept voluntary repatriation.
	www.irinnews.org /report.asp?ReportID=44333 (734 words)

	www.hirondelle.org : Rwanda / Justice - files - 2002
		Rwanda is divided administratively into cells, sectors, districts and provinces, with the city of Kigali treated separately.
		Rwanda has always accused the French government of arming and giving diplomatic cover to the former Rwandan government that presided over the genocide.
		The provinces with the lowest percentage were found to be Ruhengeri (1,3%), Byumba and Umutara (which were at the time one prefecture, 2.8%) and Gisenyi (3,8%).
	www.hirondelle.org /hirondelle.nsf/caefd9edd48f5826c12564cf004f793d/192d793b82d9b481c1256cb800591075?OpenDocument (9613 words)

	SignOnSanDiego.com > News > World -- Renegade Congolese commander flees to neighboring Rwanda
		Congo, meanwhile, said Rwanda's harboring of Mutebutsi proved that country's role in destabilizing eastern regions of Congo.
		Congo's Deputy Foreign Minister Henri Mova Sakanyi said the presence of Mutebutsi in Rwanda indicates that Rwanda is involved in the crisis in eastern Congo.
		Rwanda sent troops into Congo in August 1998 to back Congolese rebels seeking to oust then-President Laurent Kabila, accusing him of backing the insurgents threatening regional security.
	www.signonsandiego.com /news/world/20040622-0603-rwanda-congo.html (577 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Rwanda and the international community marked the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the 1994 genocide.
		There were also a series of public declarations and accusations (by the governments of Rwanda and DRC, and the UN mission in DRC) regarding the re-entry of the Rwandese army into the DRC.
		The same procedures, applied to union members and leaders, have lead to an inability to address escalating labour disputes, including one in Kerman province, in which at least four people were killed in the course of a policing action.
	www2.amnesty.se /hem.nsf/annualreport2004updates?OpenPage (2851 words)

	Oxfam - Rwanda - Village of Hope
		Nyamikamba is in Umutara Province, in the rolling grasslands of northeastern Rwanda.
		It also took in people from other provinces of Rwanda who after fleeing the killings of the genocide returned to the home village to find that there houses had been destroyed or found that their homes have been taken by newcomers.
		Most recently, it is still taking in people from across the country, but prominently the northwestern provinces, which are leaving their homes and coming to Umutara Province in the search of land and a livelihood.
	www.oxfam.org.uk /what_we_do/where_we_work/rwanda/villageofhope/about.htm (360 words)

	IOL: DRC says it has no plans to attack Rwanda
		The DRC's defence minister said his country was sending 5 000 soldiers to provinces bordering Rwanda, the DRC's chief enemy in a devastating five-year central African war - but he insisted the deployment was to quell ex-rebels on the DRC's soil, not to invade Rwanda.
		Rwanda's foreign minister said on Saturday that the DRC's troop movements east were preparations for invasion.
		The DRC has levelled its own accusations, alleging Rwanda was readying for attack and that Rwandan troops had already infiltrated.
	www.iol.co.za /index.php?set_id=1&click_id=68&art_id=vn20040622105546951C169442 (553 words)

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