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Rwanda

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Trump formally pardons former Honduran leader
Full Episode
50:54
Why war in eastern DRC continues to smolder
13:32
Conflict & Justice
US brokers peace deal between DRC and Rwanda
5:40
DRC and Rwanda peace deal brokered by US
5:40
Rwanda and DRC sign draft peace deal
Full Episode
48:18
After several failed talks, Rwanda and DRC prepare to sign peace deal
0:50
Qatar brokers talks between DRC, Rwanda and M23 rebel group
Full Episode
48:03
DRC, Rwanda and M23 rebel group agree to a ceasefire
5:18
In the DRC, Rwandan troops openly assist dramatic rebel takeover of Goma
5:40
Rebel group advances on eastern Congo’s largest city
2:34
Rwanda moves to contain Marburg virus outbreak
6:24
Photography exhibit in Rwanda documents the country decades after genocide
7:28
As Rwanda holds elections, incumbent Kagame expected to win, again
4:55
UK passes legislation aimed at deterring asylum-seekers
Full Episode
47:10
UK passes bill to deport asylum seekers to Rwanda
6:07
Funeral workers burry a coffin with an unidentified civilian body, who died in Bucha during the Russian occupation period in February-March 2022, during a funeral in Bucha, Ukraine
Conflict & Justice
Digital clues and the stories Ukraine’s mass graves tell
The interior of the Hope Hostel, which is one of the locations expected to house some of the asylum-seekers due to be sent from Britain to Rwanda, is seen in the capital Kigali, Rwanda Friday, June 10, 2022. 
‘At least there is peace here’: Rwandans weigh in on controversial migrant deal with UK
Sample portions of chicken and kale stew over rice
Food
Maine’s largest school district serves up African-inspired dishes to get more students excited about school lunch
A lab assistant looks at an assay plate to prepare sequencing at the Wellcome Sanger Institute that is operated by Genome Research in Cambridge, Thursday, March 4, 2021.
COVID-19
From Congo to Chile, small labs are playing a growing role in global understanding of COVID
A National Guardsman walks along a border fence near the International Bridge where thousand of migrants, mostly from Haiti, have formed a makeshift camp in Del Rio, Texas
Top of The World
US begins mass deportations of Haitian migrants as Haiti calls for moratorium
A hand holds up a cartoon in front of the Capitol dome of the Statue of Liberty hugging a Muslim hijabi girl.
Refugees
Refugees stuck in limbo over Biden’s inaction to restore admissions program
The stories of women ostracized by their family and community after being wrongly accused of witchcraft can be heard on a new album called "I've forgotten now who I used to be." 
Music
New album lifts up the voices of ostracized women in northern Ghana’s ‘witch camps’
In this March 26, 2020, file photo, a boy wears a mask as a preventative measure against the spread of the coronavirus, as he navigates floodwaters mixed with garbage following heavy rains, in the Kibera area of Nairobi, Kenya.
The Big Fix
‘Connecting with God by caring for the environment’: Franciscan monk in Kenya shares Christmas message
Joe Biden, a white man, is stands near nominee Linda Thomas-Greenfield, a Black woman, who is wearing a dark blue suit onstage at a podium.
Global Politics
Biden pick to lead US mission at UN will ‘rebuild ties with our closest allies,’ says former amb.
Secondary school students play in the courtyard at the College Henri Matisse school during its reopening in Nice as French children return to their schools after the summer break.
Top of The World
European students return to class; King Salman sacks Saudi commander; Hotel Rwanda figure arrested abroad
Several white airplanes with Kenya Airways logo on them in red and green parked in airport.
Business
International flights resume in East Africa
A woman wearing yellow blouse looks at images of men on a computer screen
Justice
A 26-year manhunt for Rwandan genocide fugitive ends
A soldier hands food to a woman.
Lessons from the UN peacekeeping mission in Rwanda, 25 years after the genocide it failed to stop
Rwanda
Health
Abortion pardons in Rwanda leave rights activists hopeful
woman wearing military fatigues holds a gun
Thousands of ISIS fighters sit in prison. Kurdish leaders call for a special tribunal.
rwanda
Rwanda, US eye trade war over $1 billion used clothing market
Stans ossuary in Stans, Switzerland.
Culture
Remember that you have to die
US Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman General Joseph Dunford is stands at a podium during a press conference.
Conflict
Pentagon looks at stepping up its role in Africa to counter ISIS
A US special forces soldier demonstrates how to detain a suspect during Flintlock 2014, a US-led international training mission for African militaries, in Diffa, Niger, March 4, 2014.
Conflict
Niger raid highlights US military’s growing role in Africa
One hundred survivors of Rwanda's 1994 genocide live together at the Impinganzima home for the elderly. Cesarie Mukakinani, who is 100 years old, is the oldest and most popular resident of the home. Her nickname is "the mayor."
Conflict
How Rwanda is aiding women widowed by the country’s 1994 genocide
Teklit Michael, 29, an asylum seeker from Eritrea
Justice
Israel has developed a system for pushing out refugees it doesn’t want
These women spend part of their days running a café and another part reporting on government killings.
Conflict
These women run a cafe by day, and risk their lives to report on their government’s killings by night
Paul Kagame's government has been accused of the assassination of political opponents and restricting free and fair elections.
Conflict
Dear Mr. Rwandan President: ‘What do you say to those who think your methods are dictatorial?’
Mark Robinson traveled with a team from the Goma Observatory to set up monitoring equipment. He was in the volcano just days before it sprung back to life.
Environment
One of Africa’s most active volcanoes is showing new signs of life
This Pakistani woman lives in extreme poverty; 60 percent of Pakistanis live on less than $2 per person per day.
Development
Can extreme global poverty end in this century? Here’s why it looks promising
Children enjoying HAR facilities on Umuganda
Global Politics
As US marks 9/11 with national service, here’s how other countries do national service
Niloofar Rahmani
Business
Meet two women who are the first female pilots in their countries
Preserved human skulls are seen on display at the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre in Kigali, Rwanda.
Justice
Rwandan intelligence chief arrested in London — on Spanish charges from 2008
Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe addresses members of the media
Global Politics
Time might be running out for Africa’s ‘Presidents for Life’
Casimir Bizimungu, Rwanda’s Minister of Health, has been living in a safe house in Arusha, Tanzania since his acquittal by an international tribunal there of charges related to the 1994 genocide in neighboring Rwanda. He has no passport, his family has re
Justice
Acquitted of genocide, a handful of Rwandans live a life in limbo
Confetti flies around the ball and countdown clock in Times Square on New Year's Eve in New York January 1, 2015.
Global Politics
We look back at our favorite stories of 2014
Eurasian brown bear
Global Scan
A computer saves a Russian man from a bear attack
A health worker takes a passenger's temperature with an infrared digital laser thermometer at the Felix Houphouet Boigny international airport in Abidjan on August 13, 2014.
Health
Paul Farmer says the best way to stop Ebola is to build up health care in Africa
A health worker takes a passenger's temperature with an infrared digital laser thermometer at the Felix Houphouet Boigny international airport in Abidjan on August 13, 2014.
Health
Paul Farmer says the best way to stop Ebola is to build up health care in Africa
Esther Mujawayo and her daughters Amelia and Amanda.
Conflict & Justice
A family looks back on Rwanda’s genocide and considers when forgiveness is ‘too much to ask’
Esther Mujawayo and her daughters Amelia and Amanda.
Conflict & Justice
A family looks back on Rwanda’s genocide and considers when forgiveness is ‘too much to ask’
Acleo Mugisha is a producer at Radio KFM in Kigali, Rwanda.
Lifestyle & Belief
Rwandans are tuning in to a different sort of radio this April
Acleo Mugisha is a producer at Radio KFM in Kigali, Rwanda.
Lifestyle & Belief
Rwandans are tuning in to a different sort of radio this April
Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette
Conflict & Justice
Rwanda led this 27-year-old American to devote his life to preventing future atrocities
Dylan Hedtler-Gaudette
Conflict & Justice
Rwanda led this 27-year-old American to devote his life to preventing future atrocities
Rwandan boys watch as a flame is escorted through a Kigali suburb marking the 20th anniversary of the genocide.
Conflict & Justice
Rwandans let their pain and memories erupt as they observe the 20th anniversary of the genocide
Afghanistan, early spring 2003. At a Special Forces camp near the Pakistan border.
Health & Medicine
Post traumatic stress can be hard to understand — for those going through it and those trying to treat them
Heaven Restaurant in Rwanda.
Conflict & Justice
A couple moved to Rwanda to raise their kids, start a restaurant, and rebuild the country
People gather outside a McDonald's restaurant, which was earlier closed for clients, in the Crimean city of Simferopol April 4, 2014. McDonald's has suspended work at its restaurants in Crimea for "manufacturing reasons", the U.S. fast food chain said on
Global Scan
If you’re looking for a Big Mac, you won’t find it in Crimea
Mbaye Diagne, a Senegalese captain with the UN's peacekeeping mission in Kigali saved an estimated 600 Rwandans during the genocide.
Conflict & Justice
The world had abandoned Rwanda, but one ‘gutsy’ Senegalese peacekeeper refused to stay on the sidelines