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Peace on Earth, Peace in Burundi - YouTube
What does a wish for "peace on Earth" mean in a community healing from violence, where many cannot afford basic needs? We asked Burundians living and working in peace villages--new settlements for people affected by war, including ex-combatants, returned refugees, and victims of violence--what peace means to them.
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Schooling, Violent Conflict, and Gender in Burundi | World Bank - OKR
This paper investigates the effect of exposure to violent conflict on human capital accumulation in Burundi. It combines a nationwide household survey with secondary sources on the location and timing of the conflict. Only 20 percent of the birth cohorts studied (1971-1986) completed primary education. Depending on the specification, the probability of completing primary schooling for a boy exposed to violent conflict declines by 7 to 17 percentage points compared to a nonexposed boy, with a decline of 11 percentage points in the preferred specification. In addition, exposure to violent conflict reduces the gender gap in schooling, but only for girls from nonpoor households. Forced displacement is one of the channels through which conflict affects schooling. The results are robust to various specifications and estimation methods.
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In summer of 1994, a massive exodus by Rwandan ethnic HUTU took place. Millions of them crossed the border into DRC (Democratic Republic of Congo). With them, their entire government including the military. After the fall of President Mobutu Sese Seko of then Zaire, HUTU ethnic population in DRC were scattered in jungles of DRC, as they were fleeing Rwandan Tutsi government which was killing them in hundreds of thousands. Since then, FDLR (Front Democratic de Liberation du Rwanda) was born primarily to protect those HUTU refugees against Rwandan Government, but also as an Armed Opposition to Kigali (Capital of Rwanda). I myself lived in few of those refugee camps in Eastern Congo, but was lucky enough to leave before they were destroyed by Rwandan Government. Like many of Rwandans, I lost a lot of relatives and friends. In winter of 2012, I went back to see what's left of Rwandan HUTU refugees I left over ten years ago
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Rethinking foreign aid | PakistanToday
So much is written and said about foreign aid that it has become difficult to contribute meaningfully to the debate about whether it is effective. But if we are charting our fates as citizens of a crowded, fragile planet, then any honest assessment must conclude that progress has been made, whether in terms of child survival or literacy or access to basic sanitation. Still, profound social disparities exist; so too does extreme poverty. And the prospects of those living on less than two dollars a day remain grim.
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Management changes as Rwanda govt, firms demand results | www.theeastafrican.co.ke
The past year has seen CEOs fired and others demoted as Rwanda's government agencies and corporate bodies sought results.
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The past year was one of political ups and downs in Rwanda | www.theeastafrican.co.ke
The year 2013 was certainly an eventful one for Rwanda in the political sphere, with the country registering as many key milestones as lows on the domestic, diplomatic, regional, continental and international front. But there is no doubt that Rwanda’s key moments were largely defined and shaped by the events in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as well as regional dynamics in relation to the Congo problem and the East African Community (EAC).
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During Rwanda's genocide period in 1994, about 800,000 people were killed. People were murdered, raped and seriously injured. This retrospective study investigated prevalence and frequency of traumatic episodes and associated psychosocial effects in young adults in Rwanda over the lifetime, during the genocide period and in the past three years.
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▶ Gay and afraid in Uganda | YouTube CNN
Members of Uganda's lesbian and gay community fear they'll be persecuted even more than they are, as Arwa Damon reports.
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▶ Reformed, unaccepted: Uganda's former child soldiers try to rebuild their lives | YouTube
For more than two decades, children in northern Uganda were caught in the crossfire of a civil war between the Ugandan government and Joseph Kony's Lord's Resistance Army. The child soldiers were forced to fight against government soldiers and attack their own communities. Today, northern Uganda is peaceful, but children, their families and their communities still bear the scars of conflict, even as they rebuild their communities. NTV'S Rose Wangui was in Northern Gulu and filed the following report.
