Lucie Niyigena’s seven-year-old mind was a jumble of panic and confusion as she stepped over the brutalized, bleeding corpse of her grandfather and fled through the back door of her town’s Catholic church. But, as Lucie remembers the terror nearly two decades later, she was driven by a single overwhelming urge – not to be [...]
Rwandan Woman Stripped of US Citizenship for Role in Genocide
February 24, 2013 | Posted by
A Rwandan woman found guilty of making false statements about her role in the country’s 1994 genocide has been stripped of her U.S. citizenship, and now faces deportation. Beatrice Munyenyezi, 43, was granted political asylum in 1998, moving to New Hampshire with her three daughters. Years later, American authorities began to question her role in [...]
Did This New Hampshire Woman Participate in The Rwandan Genocide?
February 20, 2013 | Posted by
The Wednesday before last, while afternoon temperatures reached the mid-80s seven time zones away in Rwanda, 12 New Hampshire jurors and four alternates walked on snow-covered sidewalks to the U.S. District Courthouse in Concord, where they would hear the case of Rwandan-born Beatrice Munyenyezi. Arriving individually, the 16 New Englanders shuffled through a security checkpoint [...]
Focus on Congo Refugees as M23 Rebels Negotiate with Govt.
December 16, 2012 | Posted by
As the M23 rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo and the Congolese government try to sit down and work out their differences, attention must be paid to the state of the refugees in the DRC who live their lives in a perpetual state of disarray. After the latest round of conflict, during which the [...]
M23 Rebels To Engage in Peace Talks with Congo Officials
December 4, 2012 | Posted by
Residents in the eastern region of the Democratic Republic of Congo are hoping that the upcoming peace talks between the Congolese government and the M23 rebels will mean their country can return to a sense of normalcy after the rebels have brought them to the brink of yet another war. Two weeks ago when the [...]
M23 Rebels Retreat, Bringing Hope to the Congo
December 3, 2012 | Posted by
For the first time in weeks, a sense of hope has returned to the residents of eastern Congo, as the M23 rebels have withdrawn from the city of Goma and several hundred government troops have come to take their place. Though the nation knows that the rebels, who are squatting about a mile from Goma, [...]
U.S. Sends Diplomat to the Congo to Help Stem the Despair
November 26, 2012 | Posted by
As the Congo once again falls into despair and dysfunction following a threatened takeover by the M23 rebel force, the U.S. has dispatched its top diplomat for Africa, Johnnie Carson, to try to help resolve the crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In the important city of Goma, which M23 rebels seized last week, [...]
Rebels Overtake the Congo, a Country Haunted by Beauty and Richness
November 21, 2012 | Posted by
Once again the beautiful, lush nation of the Congo is under attack, this time from within as a relatively small group of rebels have overtaken the eastern city of Goma—while government troops fled the scene and a force of UN peacekeepers stood idly by—and are now pledging to topple President Joseph Kabila and overtake the [...]
Carnegie Mellon University-Rwanda Launches Graduate Degree Programs
August 26, 2012 | Posted by
Carnegie Mellon University-Rwanda (CMU-R) on Friday officially launched graduate degree programmes, with an initial class of 2012 composed of 26 students with a target of enrolling 46. This development comes almost a year after the University set up shop in Rwanda. Carnegie Mellon is a world class institution of higher learning based in the United [...]
Rwandan First Lady Urges Women to Start Innovative Businesses
July 28, 2012 | Posted by
A group of 32 women, who graduated with entrepreneurship skills from the School of Finance and Banking (SFB), have been urged to use their business acumen to kick start innovative businesses that will impact their families and communities. In a function presided over by Rwandan First Lady, Jeanette Kagame, in Kigali yesterday, the women received [...]
