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Rwanda genocide drama debuts on DVD

...Cagney movie about the Irish troubles). The 1994 Rwandan tragedy has been visited several times on film, including "Hotel Rwanda" and "Sundays in Kigali," but this one is told directly from the point of view of Dallaire, the Canadian UN officer who...

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/013108/mov_242140624.shtml
Scientist: Cassava disease spread at alarming rate

...Congo and Tanzania's lake zones, the article in Advances in Virology reported. The disease also is found in Burundi and Rwanda.In the past year, Fauquet said, symptoms of the virus have been found as far south as Angola and moving into West Africa...

http://juneauempire.com/michelle-faul/2013-05-08/scientist-cassava-disease-sprea
Toppling Syria's Assad

After the Holocaust and the genocide in Rwanda, the world said: Never again. And there have been interventions to stop the killing - in Bosnia, Kosovo and Libya. But these...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-06-07/toppling-syrias-assad
Opinion
Library to present "Global Lens" film series

...festival includes award-winning narrative feature films from Albania, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Iran, Iraq, Morocco, Rwanda and Turkey. Here's a look at the schedule:Jan. 13: "Fat, Bald, Short Man" (Columbia)Jan. 20: "Craft" (Brazil...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2013-01-03/library-present-global-lens-film-series
Art
Juneau Bridge Club

...festival includes award-winning narrative feature films from Albania, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Iran, Iraq, Morocco, Rwanda and Turkey. Here's a look at the schedule:Jan. 13: "Fat, Bald, Short Man" (Columbia)Jan. 20: "Craft" (Brazil...

http://juneauempire.com/neighbors/2013-01-06/juneau-bridge-club
Neighbors
M23 rebels press forward after east Congo gains

...fighters believed to be backed by neighboring Rwanda already have seized the provincial capital...The rebels are believed to be backed by Rwanda, and to a smaller extent by Uganda...the U.N. Group of Experts said both Rwanda and Uganda have "cooperated to support...

http://juneauempire.com/melanie-gouby/2012-11-23/m23-rebels-press-forward-after-
Corruption is still Tunisia's challenge

...answer for these crimes in a public reckoning, as part of a transitional justice process, like the ones in South Africa or Rwanda that focused on physical abuses.Tunisia's new Cabinet includes a minister for "governance and anti-corruption." This...

http://juneauempire.com/opinion/2012-06-14/corruption-still-tunisias-challenge
Opinion
Hip-hop performance to help raise funds for sustainable farm in Africa

...their own projects in conjunction with local needs. They have active projects in five African countries (Uganda, Ghana, Rwanda, South Sudan and Tanzania) as well as Cambodia and Ecuador. In addition to farms, projects include the construction of water-filter...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-07-26/hip-hop-performance-help-raise-funds-sust
Art
In the stacks: New fiction for adults

...Rift," by Naomi Benaron. Set in the Rwanda of 1994-1998, this is the story of...determined to become the first runner from Rwanda to win an Olympic medal, and so he turns...from the horrifying, brutal reality that Rwanda has sunk into."Miserere," by Teresa...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-03-01/stacks-new-fiction-adults
Art
Local artist invites Juneauites to participate in workshop, installation

...installation could have prompted change when the Rwanda genocide was taking place in 1994. According...If the bones of the those murdered in Rwanda were piled in the streets in Washington...the former head of a relief agency in Rwanda, was, according to many media sources...

http://juneauempire.com/art/2012-04-19/local-artist-invites-juneauites-participa
Art

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