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    As I was working I realized that I was more editing the news reported from the field by giving more sense and clarity of the content. Couple of months later, I became a news reporter and presenter. For four years, I grew fan of journalism, I loved my work; and I learned a lot about my country and its leadership. Education challenges It occurred to me that I had to change my professional in order to take care of my family. I left the journalism to join the Kigali Genocide Memorial Centre doing the communication. Even though I was good at my job, it was not good enough, as the educational skills and competences became more required on the employment market. Within our organization, I was among the few without bachelors’ degree; and I decided to go back to school. Currently, I am a Junior - Communication Studies Major. At the end of studies, I will be qualified on the employment market and more confident to use my skills. Facts about me • An injured woman died in my arms while I was feeding her, and I didn’t realize it until a soldier told me that I am feeding a dead person – I was really…

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    Prison conditions are worsening all across the world, especially within African countries, such as Rwanda. Rwandan prisons have an unhealthy environment — lack of space, mistreatment, and neglect — for the inmates that are locked up. The effects of the destructive conditions that inmates experience range in severity, from infected feet to death. In addition, these problems are not recent occurrences; these complications have been around for over 20 years. By looking at this issue from an ethical…

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    people know about the traumatizing factors of living in Rwanda as shown in the novel, A Sunday at the pool in Kigali, by Gill Courtemanche, the ignorance portrayed by Velcourt leads to drastic measures, which makes both Velcourt and his wife, Gentille’s, life’s extremely difficult, as can be seen in him disregarding the humans purposely giving each other AIDS, not protecting his wife to the full extent, and ignoring the fact that the Hutus are killing the Tutsis. The simple reason that Velcourt…

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    Rwanda is roughly the size of Maryland. The Landlocked country of Rwanda is located in the eastern central part of Africa. Multiple neighbors that border Rwanda include The Congo, Burundi, Tanzania, and Uganda. Another border of Rwanda is one of its numerous lakes. Nicknamed the “Land of a Thousand Hills”, Rwanda’s landscape contains hills and multiple mountains each filled with steep slopes and valleys. Advantages that benefit this environment include two consistent water sources and easily…

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    city of Kigali. My Mama Igna took care of me and my sister Shereen. Life before the genocide was incredibly fun. Me and my peers would play soccer on the rooftops. My Mama Igna had her own restaurant across from my day care. My Mama would sell her famous urwagwa, a beer made from the fermented juice of bananas that has been mixed with roasted sorghum flour. Everyone in my neighborhood knew about my Mama’s urwagwa. On my ninth birthday, news was spread of a family slaughtered in their homes by…

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    Did the genocide do any good to Kigali, Rwanda or did it bring it to its worst? A genocide has occurred in the capital, Kigali. The Rwandan genocide started from April 7, 1994 to July 1994. The Hutu massacred a ton of Tutsis and politically moderate Hutu people. By the end of the genocide, it estimates that anywhere between 800,000 – 1 million killed, with another 2 million refugees held in refugee camps. The Rwandan genocide has been prepared for years. In 1959-1960 tension erupted between…

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    Genocide is a problem in the world today. Genocide is a mass murder of one group of people to another group of people. The genocide in Rwanda was one of the worst causes in African history. There are several causes and a lot of people involved with brutal outcomes in Rwanda genocide. There are several causes leading to genocide in Rwanda. The genocide was sparked when the plane of the president of Rwanda Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu was shot down above the Kigali airport on April 6 1994. The…

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    After a general overview of the Rwanda genocide, it can perform an examination of the three levels of analysis; individual, state and international and with this; make possible proposals for the solution of the fact. First of all, in the individual analysis, it can see that the president; Habyarimana, took the power and decided keep the genocide between Hutus and Tutsis this simple but, important action is a very good example of the individual analysis; moreover, when Paul Kagame; leader of the…

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    The State of Affairs in Africa has always created stereo-types as a doomed continent with unavoidable tribal conflict and ethnic cleavages. It’s hard to understand why there were so many wars and instability in Africa in the late 90’s. Over the last four decades, nearly twenty African countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa area have experienced at least one form of war. The biggest and deadliest war was the Rwandan genocide. Most of the wars occurred because of influences Europeans had on African…

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    The Rwandan Genocide When Belgium conquered Rwanda, they spit the citizens into different groups. Split up into three groups, the Tutsis, Hutus, and the Twa, the Belgians gave the Tutsis more power and believed they were superior. Right before Rwanda gained independence, the Belgians began giving the Hutus more and more power. When Rwanda gained independence in 1962, it left these made up ethnic groups in tension. After Rwanda gained independence, the ‘Hutu Power’ drove out the majorities of…

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