Rwanda

Archive Photos;  January 1, 1990 ;     45 words ......of Rwanda, formerly Ruanda, is a small, landlocked country in east central Africa. The capital is the city of Kigali. The population consists of an estimated 7,903,000 people who speak French, Kinyarwanda and Swahili. Copyright Archive Photos.

Congolese flee to Rwanda amid killings

Xinhua News Agency;  December 26, 2004 ;     398 words ......Sunday. "The fighting are targeting the Kinyarwanda-speaking Congolese commonly known as...language to Rwanda's local language Kinyarwanda. "They killed my husband and many others...business. They vowed to kill us until no Kinyarwanda- speaking Congolese remain in the Congo...

EJO

Poetry;  August 1, 2000 ;     256 words ...The Kinyarwanda word which means both yesterday and tomorrow. World resolves itself in the crowned crane's liquid eye, in the cry of the ibis...

LOCAL HERO 'HOTEL RWANDA' HUMANITARIAN FINDS BOSTON A SECOND HOME

The Boston Globe;  May 31, 2006 ;     700+ words ......Comment vas-tu?" Father and son embrace in a tight hug, separate, and embrace again, speaking a few words in French, then in Kinyarwanda before switching to English. To people around the world, Paul Rusesabagina is the man who saved 1,268 lives in his "Hotel...

Rwanda's Weary Warrior; Paul Kagame Once Led Rebel Troops. Now He Leads a...

The Washington Post;  December 14, 1994 ;     700+ words ......English word that rings out clearly, every few phrases, as Maj. Gen. Paul Kagame addresses rapt exile audiences in his sibilant Kinyarwanda dialect: genocide. But if you ask the gaunt, bespectacled African leader to describe what he saw and felt last spring as...

HIS FILM RECAPTURES RWANDAN GENOCIDE

The Boston Globe;  February 21, 2003 ;     700+ words ......corner table at the Casablanca in Cambridge, sipping merlot and sifting his four vocabularies - Swahili, French, English, and Kinyarwanda - in search of words to describe a horror that defies description in any language. He is one of 28 children born in exile...

Congolese refugees flee to Rwanda amid fresh fighting

Xinhua News Agency;  January 13, 2005 ;     391 words ......Congo speaking similar language to Rwanda's local language Kinyarwanda, reported the areas where they lived are now under the control...attacked and burned our homes and have vowed to kill any Kinyarwanda-speaking people in Congo. They forced us to leave Congo and...

Prosecution begins closing arguments in case of "hate media"

AP Worldstream;  August 18, 2003 ;     393 words ......his height and his nose. Break the nose, said the voice in Kinyarwanda broadcast by a private radio station as gangs armed with...Hutus to eat the hearts of dead Tutsis, referred to them in Kinyarwanda, the language of all Rwandans, as inkontanyi, or cockroaches...

Rwanda's Tormentors Emerge From the Forest to Haunt Congo; Hutu Guerrillas...

The Washington Post;  February 10, 2005 ;     700+ words ......from the jungle with a gun in his hand, a machete on his belt and a menacing look in his eye. The wild-looking man spoke in Kinyarwanda -- the language of terror to many people here -- as he roughly demanded she turn over the beans. According to Kyakimwa's...

A trip to remember: Students volunteer at a Rwanda hospital for three...

Valley Morning Star (Harlingen, TX);  February 10, 2006 ;     375 words ...Byline: Joann Deluna Feb. 10--HARLINGEN -- Gacie, gacie, was the Kinyarwanda phrase, lifestyle and virtue meaning slow down, slow down, three Rio Grande Valley graduates learned after volunteering in a hospital...

Arrest of Croatian Father's Killers Denied

Xinhua English Newswire;  February 5, 1998 ;     146 words ......Father Vjeco Curic in Kigali last Saturday. The United Nations' IRIN Integrated Regional Information Network quoted BBC's Kinyarwanda Service as reporting Wednesday that two people were arrested in connection with Curic's murder. "Three people traveling with...

LEOPOLD MUNYAKAZI TO SPEAK ON CIVIL WAR, GENOCIDE IN RWANDA, APRIL 4

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  March 20, 2006 ;     106 words ......State University at McKeesport issued the following news release: Dr. Leopold Munyakazi, Professor of Linguistics, French, Kinyarwanda and Literature from Rwanda will speak on "Civil War and Genocide in Rwanda: 1990-1994" on Tuesday, April 4, 2006 in Frable...

RWANDA-POPULATION: STREET CHILDREN HELP FEED THEIR FAMILIES

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  August 23, 1996 ;     700+ words ......them, but few realize the role the "mayibobo" play in hundreds of villages across Rwanda. "Mayibobo" is the word used in the Kinyarwanda language to designate street children. As they hover around market places, car parks, restaurants and bars, many people simply...

RIGHTS-RWANDA: NINE YEARS ON, GENOCIDE SUSPECTS STILL IN CUSTODY

Inter Press Service English News Wire;  May 31, 2003 ;     700+ words ......fanatics -- known as interahamwe, or those who fight together in Kinyarwanda -- in 1994. It was the worst genocide since the Nazis killed...witnesses. To complicate matter, the witnesses mainly speak Kinyarwanda - Rwanda's official language - which has to be translated...

70 Congolese flee to Rwanda amid tension

Xinhua News Agency;  April 15, 2005 ;     311 words ......Banyamurenge, main inhabitant of southern and eastern regions of Congo speaking similar language to Rwanda's local language Kinyarwanda, have mentioned two Rwandan rebels, the Interahamwe and the Mai Mai militias are behind the mounting tension. The Interahamwe...