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Ten Reasons to Visit Rwanda More Than Once

Adewale A. — Tue, 25 Jul 2023 19:34:38 +0000

Despite its relatively small size, Rwanda has a diverse range of wildlife, including gorillas, buffalo, chimpanzees, elephants, lions, leopards, mountain gorillas and white and black rhinos. However, the country’s wildlife population has faced significant challenges in the past, including habitat loss, poaching, and conflict. In the 1990s, Rwanda’s civil war and genocide had a devastating [...]

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Concerned Citizen’s Opinion on Systemic Genocide Happening in Southern Nigeria

Adewale A. — Sat, 03 Jul 2021 09:23:06 +0000

When Adolph Hitler started his plans against the Jews in Germany there were many Jews who couldn’t bring themselves to believe that such a scheme against them was possible. They reasoned like Nationalists, it was such a “parochial” argument by those who carried the “rumours” and traded in “primordial sentiments”. They argued that they have [...]

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The Military Arrested Our Members In Rivers State To Divert Attention From Its Genocide – PDP

David Folami — Tue, 26 Feb 2019 21:48:45 +0000

PDP in Rivers State has called the arrests and detaining of some of its party members by men of the 6 Division of Nigerian Army “diversionary.” The party’s spokesman, Hon. Darlington Orji, said the Nigerian Army used these arrests to take all attention away from the delibrate killings it performed in some parts of Rivers [...]

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Yemi Osinbajo Should Save Us From Genocide – Fulanis

David Folami — Thu, 22 Jun 2017 19:43:48 +0000

The Fulani community in Taraba state has cried out to Acting President Yemi Osinbajo about their community being targeted in an ongoing ethnic cleansing. In reaction to the recent killings in the Sardauna Local Government Area of the state, the Fulani community has accused the Mambilla tribe of trying to wipe their tribe out over [...]

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Wellbeing Foundation Africa Remembers Victims of the Rwandan Genocide, Calls for a Celebration of a Bright Future

Ade Adewale — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 15:58:22 +0000

[Abuja, April 7] Speaking on the 22nd Rwandan Genocide Memorial Day, the Founder-President of the Wellbeing Foundation Africa (WBFA), Her Excellency, Mrs Toyin Saraki, today, reminded all of the calamity and loss that Rwanda suffered, but also how the country later attained ultimate triumph in the protection and empowerment of women and girls, including through advancements [...]

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French Army Officers deny Allegations of aiding Rwanda Genocide

AMA — Thu, 03 Dec 2015 22:46:25 +0000

French army officers have denied allegations by rights groups that the country’s peacekeeping force knowingly failed to prevent the killing of hundreds of Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Three groups, including the International Human Rights Federation (FIDH), last week called for two French officers to be charged with aiding and abetting genocide by failing to [...]

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Rwanda’s Genocide Era: From Hatred to Reconciliation

AMA — Wed, 30 Sep 2015 16:11:48 +0000

Between April and July 1994, more than 800,000 men, women and children, mostly from Rwanda’s Tutsi minority were slaughtered. In one of the worst atrocities in recent history, Hutu paramilitaries unleashed a bloodbath, killing every person they could find, as neighbours murdered neighbours. Sparked by the death of President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, when his [...]

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US Secretary of State John Kerry warns of ‘genocide’ risk in South Sudan

Ade Adewale — Thu, 01 May 2014 14:15:08 +0000

US Secretary of State John Kerry warned Thursday of a risk of genocide in South Sudan if the country's four-month-old civil war is not stopped. "There are very disturbing leading indicators of the kind of ethnic, tribal, targeted nationalistic killings…

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Football will always be used to unite people o caf president- hayatou

CAF News — Wed, 09 Apr 2014 11:10:02 +0000

Confederation of African Football President, Issa Hayatou joined world dignitaries in Kigali, Rwanda to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Rwanda Genocide. He visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial where he laid a wreath on a mass grave. President Hayatou who was also representing FIFA in his capacity as FIFA Vice President said, “Football will always [...]

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Kagame repeats charge that France took part in Rwanda genocide

Ade Adewale — Sat, 05 Apr 2014 13:21:41 +0000

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame on Sunday once again accused France of "participating" in the 1994 genocide in an interview to mark the 20th anniversary of the killings. Speaking to the weekly Jeune Afrique, Kagame denounced the "direct role of Belgium…

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Kaduna Governor Dragged To ICC Over Alleged Genocide

David Folami — Sat, 08 Feb 2014 09:55:44 +0000

A group, Southern Kaduna Indigenes Progressive Forum (SKIPFo) yesterday said it has compiled enough documentary and other relevant information enough to drag Governor Mukhtar Ramalan Yero to the Internal Criminal Court (ICC) in the Hague for what it said was genocide against the Atakad people of Kaura Local Government Area in the southgern part of [...]

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Rwanda urged to lift restrictions on peaceful dissent as UN rights expert concludes visit

UN News — Wed, 29 Jan 2014 06:35:44 +0000

28 January 2014 – An independent United Nations human rights expert has urged the Rwandan Government to lift undue restrictions on the freedoms of peaceful assembly and association so that the country can expand its economic achievements since the 1994 genocide to the fields of multiparty democracy and human rights. “I commend Rwanda for its [...]

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United Nations warns of ‘genocide’ in Central African Republic, parliament seeks new leader

Ade Adewale — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 02:24:21 +0000

The UN has warned that bloodshed in the Central African Republic could turn into genocide as horrors continue to unfold in the country where parliament is preparing to choose a new leader. Violence in the highly unstable country has not let up despite…

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