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It's a long time since I thought of Thaddee, our Kigali stringer when I was covering Rwanda for Reuters. I remembered him because a recent fashion in western universities is […]

Shahryar M. Khan recalls Rwanda at the time of UNAMIR, in a conversation with Xi Pei First of all, please imagine a country which has been completely devastated. There was [...]

The three months of massacre and civil war in 1994 left more than one million people dead in Rwanda and two million refugees in neighboring countries. The reign of terror unleashed by the government extremists began in Apr 1994 as a reaction against the United Nation's peace accord to end a four-year civil war. Incidents where the teachers brutally murdered their pupils in classrooms, or former students killed teachers were widely reported, and an estimated 30% of teachers who were employed as such in Apr 1994 remain as teachers. The students show psychological problems as a result of their experiences.

Kigali Eighteen years after Rwanda's bloodbath I disembarked from my flight and was surprised to see that mortar craters no longer pitted the airport tarmac. At a city café where [...]

Our Central African Correspondent, Francois Misser, just back from a fact-finding trip to Rwanda, says that although daily life is returning to normal in that devastated country, the new administration [...]

Efforts to bring relief to 1.2 million Rwandan refugees are hampered by the poorly equipped airfield in Goma, Zaire. Only a few aircraft were able to land in the airfield resulting in the scaling down of relief operations from Nairobi. Goods from aircraft that do land have to be unloaded by hand because of the lack of forklifts and trucks. The distribution of relief goods is further delayed by Zaire's poor roads and bridges.

Nurses are being encouraged to take part in training sessions in Rwanda next year after the success of an inaugural nursing conference this year. South Australia's Flinders University lecturer and [...]