Rwanda: Schools to Reopen on April 18

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Rwanda: Schools to Reopen on April 18

[New Times] The third term of this academic year for primary, secondary, and TVET schools will start on Monday, April 18, and is expected to end on July 15.

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Staples, George McDade (1947-- )

George McDade Staples was appointed by President Bill Clinton to be ambassador to the Republic of Rwanda, where he served from 1998 to 2001. He was later appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as ambassador to Cameroon, and Equatorial Guinea. He served in that post between 2001 and

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South Sudan: First War, Now COVID-19 Threatens South Sudanese in Crowded Camp

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Hutu Power was a supremacist ideology propounded by Hutu extremists in Rwanda. It contributed to the 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi. Hutu Power political parties and movements included the Akazu, the Coalition for the Defence of the Republic and its Impuzamugambi paramilitary militia, and

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Annan, Kofi Atta

Annan, Kofi Atta kō´fē ä´tä ăn´ən [key] 1938–, Ghanaian diplomat, secretary-general of the United Nations (1997–2006), b. Kumasi. The scion of a family of Fante chieftains, he studied at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minn. (grad. 1961), and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Rwanda: Airtel Launches One-Stop Digital Platform to Offer Self-Care Services

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Like: Adewale, Alleluyanatha and Gilberthe are just three of the 80 young African scholars that are tackling the business of agriculture through the innovativeness and freshness that comes with youth -- while obtaining their masters or doctoral degrees in the process. He has long championed the

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Rwanda: Kula Project Donates Food Supplies to Gakenke District Resident

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Julius Nyerere , in full Julius Kambarage Nyerere, also called Mwalimu (Swahili: “Teacher”) (born March 1922, Butiama, Tanganyika—died October 14, 1999, London, England), first prime minister of independent Tanganyika (1961), who became the first president of the new state of

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Kenya: When Genocide Fugitive Kabuga Ran Businesses in Kenya

At some point, former Attorney-General Amos Wako and Director of Public Prosecutions Keriako Tobiko were taken to task by a Kenyan court to explain why it was unable to trace whoever was running Mr Kabuga's business

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Kenya shuts Somalia, Tanzania borders over virus

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France arrests fugitive Rwandan genocide 'financier'

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Rwanda: Sibomana Set to Join SC Kiyovu on Two-Year Deal

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Rwanda: APR Quartet in Final Talks With Club for New Contracts

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West Virginia State University (1891- )

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Why Are There Two Congos in Africa?

The larger of the two Congos is the Democratic Republic of Congo, or Congo-Kinshasa (Kinshasa is the capital and largest city). The DRC was formerly known as Zaire and earlier known as the Belgian Congo. The smaller of the two Congos, on the western edge of the DRC, is the Republic of the Congo, or

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Rwanda: Inside Rwanda's Rwf186bn Economic Recovery Fund

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Africa: Under COVID-19 Lockdowns, 32 Million Africans Would Be Severely Food Deprived

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