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▶ Destination Francophonie #56 - Burundi | YouTube
Destination Burundi où les CLAC donnent accès à la lecture pour tous dans les zones rurales les plus reculées.
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▶ Burundi: CNDD-FDD Ijambo ryawe ukuri kwawe1 | YouTube
l s'agit des FDD qui chantent déjà la victoire, la paix au Burundi et la bonne gouvernance en 1996 dans "BURUNDI KUNA AMANI"
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Révision de la Constitution : une hydre à trois tête au sommet de l’État burundais ? | Iwacu
En octobre 2013, le conseil des Ministres a adopté un projet de loi pour changer certaines dispositions de la Constitution de 2005. Plusieurs voix se sont déjà exprimées pour ou contre ce projet …
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Les Pays-Bas sont le pays où l’on mange le mieux, devant la France et la Suisse. C’est ce qui ressort du classement mondial de la situation alimentaire établi par l’organisation internationale de développement Oxfam sur la base d’indicateurs d’abondance, de qualité, d’accessibilité financière et de mauvaise hygiène alimentaire. Le Tchad figure, quant à lui, à la 125e et dernière position, derrière l’Éthiopie et l’Angola.
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Rapport d’Oxfam : Burundi, pays où l’on mange le moins à sa faim | Iwacu
Selon le rapport d’Oxfam, sorti la semaine dernière, le Burundi est le pays le plus frappé par l’insuffisance alimentaire. Les Pays-Bas étant le pays où l’on mange le mieux.
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This article argues that the mainstream (constructivist) theorizing about ethnicity should be expanded in order to take essentialist aspects that are present in the notions of “potential ethnics” into account. By focusing on the notions of “potential ethnics”, that is, in this case Rwandans and Burundians, one avoids the oversimplification that still persists in the debate about essentialist and constructivist approaches to ethnicity. Qualitative interviews conducted between September 2007 and May 2008 show that Rwandans and Burundians do not conceive of ethnic categories as either constructivist or essentialist, but that constructivist and essentialist notions exist next to each other and are strongly intertwined in the different lines of reasoning. These findings support arguments criticizing the dominant constructivist theories (about being Hutu and Tutsi) as being unable to capture the complexity of ethnic realities.
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▶ Congo army attack rebels in lawless east | YouTube
Government forces in the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have launched a UN backed offensive to drive out rebel group ADF. Army troops are sweeping through villages that the rebels once used for business and trade. Al Jazeera's Malcolm Webb reports from the Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
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The just war tradition is based on two principles: jus ad bellum – just war-making, and jus in bello – just war-fighting. Jus in bello contains the non-combatant immunity principle. This ‘protects’ civilians during war, giving them ‘immunity’ from the violence of war-fighting. Women are, for the most part, non-combatants. Still, their experiences during war are far from ‘protected’. Following the widespread use of rape in the conflicts in Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia, the raping of women in combat and occupation zones is now considered a human rights violation and treated as a crime against humanity. Yet, despite developments in international law and policy-making on sexual violence in armed conflict, the systematic rape of girls and women during armed conflict continues. In the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), this type of gender-based violence is being perpetrated and facilitated at a macro, meso, and micro level. This article will explore these levels through a feminist lens and will consider what is necessary to achieve just post bellum (just peace) in the DRC.
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On 29th December 2013, a group of assailants launched what appeared to be a series of coordinated attacks on the DRC’s state television channel, the capital city’s airport (the international airport at N’Djili), the airport in the capital of Maniema province (Kindu), the city of Lubumbashi and a military camp in Kinshasa. The assailants claimed to be supported by one of the candidates in the 2006 presidential elections in the DRC, a religious leader, former soldier and self-proclaimed prophet, Paul Joseph Mukungubila Mutombo. Subsequently, hundreds were killed as result of a heavy-handed response by government forces. The self-proclaimed prophet, Paul Joseph Mukungubila Mutombo, declared that the attacks were in response to security threats received at his home in the Katanga region. The attackers believed, as with coups d’etat in the classic mould, that by capturing the national Radio and TV stations, they could take control of the entire country. Despite regular violent demonstrations, Kinshasa’s security forces were taken by surprise, as were many DRC analysts, because this was an unusual form of attack.
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The Democratic Republic of Congo has struck a deal to buy back oil rights from a secretive offshore company for a sum likely to be hundreds of times the price the company paid several years earlier, Global Witness says in a report published today. The contract for the latest sale – in which Congo appears to have made a staggering loss - has not been published, in contravention of the country’s transparency laws.
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Communities in eastern Congo not any safer despite M23 defeat | Oxfam International
People living in North and South Kivu are still facing daily threats, extortion and violence at the hands of armed groups and government forces, despite the defeat two months ago of the rebel M23 militia, according to worldwide development organization Oxfam.
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Are Rwanda’s Post-Genocide Youth Programs Paving the Way for Future Unrest? | The Nation
Of all of the displays in the Rwandan Genocide Memorial in Kigali, it is one of the least memorable. Humbly settled between panels describing the historical tensions that led to the genocide, it’s largely overshadowed by the stained glass panels and commemorative statues placed in front of and behind it. The display is a simple glass panel that quotes an African proverb: “A tree can only be straightened when it is young.” Understated as it may be, this small placard is invaluable when it comes to understanding the post-genocide mindset in Rwanda. In particular, it echoes the Rwandan government’s focus on rehabilitation and development for the country’s youth. To prevent another outbreak of ethnic violence, the country’s autocratic regime—which enjoys friendly relations with Washington—has strived to cultivate a healthy sense of nationalism among young Rwandans, and has instituted an ambitious educational agenda in a bid to offer young people jobs and direction. But though the government has dedicated itself to a variety of youth-oriented reform projects, it has also instituted propagandistic “national solidarity” camps that peddle militaristic values and obedience to the state. At the same time, the country has cracked down on free speech and political dissidents.The question remains as to whether its efforts in the twenty years since the genocide have amounted to straightening its citizen saplings or simply stunting their growth, creating a generation of Rwandan bonsais.
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Rwanda: Investigate Anti-Corruption Campaigner’s Murder | Human Rights Watch
Official investigations into the murder of a Rwandan anti-corruption activist appear to have ground to a halt six months later. The case has received surprisingly little public attention, and the victim’s family is still awaiting justice. Human Rights Watch has visited the town of Rubavu where the body was found and interviewed witnesses and the police.
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▶ Business Daily, Rwanda Rising | BBC World Service
Since the devastation of the country's 1994 civil war, which left up to 800 000 dead in a genocidal massacre driven by Hutu-led government militia, Rwanda has achieved a remarkable recovery. Under the leadership of President Paul Kagame, Rwanda has attracted huge levels of inward investment and aid, made possible by the country's relative political and economic stability. It has enjoyed ten years of economic growth at levels which are impressive by any standard and which well outstrip the growth rates for the African continent as a whole. But in a report for Business Daily by Gabriel Gatehouse, we look behind the dynamic economic activity to find that life remains hard for those people unwilling to toe the government line.
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On Holocaust Memorial Day Freddie Knoller, Sokphal Din and Sophie Masereka describe how they lived through mass killings
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Groupe de Ruandais dans la région de Kigali | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
Pictures from Colonial Times - Colonialism
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An idea to end wars amongst cousins in the Great Lakes region | The New Times Rwanda
Every Saturday morning one of Rwanda’s private radio stations carries a popular BBC programme known as Imvo n’Imvano. It is a syndicated talk show with target audiences among the Kinyarwanda and Kirundi speaking people of the Great Lakes region. A recent subject for discussion was particularly appealing: Were the Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa as ethnic identities a colonial invention or did colonialism find them here?
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Kenya-Uganda-Rwanda alliance threatens to break East African Community | Sabahionline.com
The exclusion of some East African Community (EAC) member states from implementing integration programmes may lead to the downfall of efforts for full regional integration, analysts say.
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Internally displaced persons (IDPs) in Uganda | IDMC
Since the 2006 signing of a cease-fire agreement between the government of Uganda and the Lord’s Resistance Army there has been significant return of those displaced by conflict in northern Uganda. The overwhelming majority of the 1.8 million internally displaced people (IDPs) who lived in camps at the height of the crisis have returned to their areas of origin, driven by their cultural ties to the land and the region, or resettled in new locations. Support for recovery and development in areas to which IDPs have returned has been insufficient. Returnees have faced continuing difficulties due to inadequate basic services and limited support to rebuild their livelihoods. The return process has been marred by land conflicts, sometimes leading to violence. (...)
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Could Uganda Prosecute Joseph Kony? | Institute for War and Peace Reporting - P213
Reports late last year that Ugandan rebel leader Joseph Kony had discussed the possibility of surrendering have prompted questions about whether he might be put on trial locally, rather than being sent to the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague.
