| February 3, 2008 | - Two earthquakes killed 30 people in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
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Death toll from Rwanda, Congo quakes hits 30
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| September 25, 2007 | -
Rwanda, which will soon be paid a humanitarian visit by Paris Hilton, was named the most improved country in sub-Saharan Africa.
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SFGate
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BBC News
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| December 14, 2006 | - An international war crimes court sentenced a Rwandan Roman Catholic priest to 15 years in prison for ordering his church crushed by bulldozers while 2,000 ethnic Tutsi remained inside.
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NYT
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| August 16, 2006 | -
Rwanda announced plans to end the death penalty for genocidiers.
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BBC
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| May 18, 2006 | - A rogue elephant was on the loose in Rwanda.
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IOL.co.za
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| April 6, 2006 | - An independent study of AIDS in Africa, funded by an international consortium and performed in partnership with Johns Hopkins University, found that 3 percent of Rwandans age 15 to 49 are infected with HIV, a much lower figure than the 30 percent estimated by some researchers or the 13 percent estimated by the United Nations. Infection rates, the study found, were similarly overstated throughout East and West Africa, although in southern Africa the rate of infection remained extremely high: for example, 34.9 percent of Botswanans in the 15 to 49 age group are infected with HIV. "From a research point of view," a British economist said of UNAIDS, "they've done a pathetic job."
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The Washington Post
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| April 3, 2006 | - The First Secretary of Rwanda was briefly arrested in Uganda after he was caught sleeping with the wife of a Ugandan businessman. "This," said a Western diplomat, "will not help matters."
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CNN.com
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| January 15, 2005 | -
Rwanda said that it will attempt to try one-eighth of its population for genocide. Trials will be held in small village courts, called gacacas.
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The Guardian
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| April 8, 2004 | -
United Nations secretary general Kofi Annan, who as the U.N. head of peacekeeping failed to intervene to stop the Rwandan
genocide, said that the reports of massacres and rapes in Sudan "leave me with a deep sense of foreboding."
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New York Times
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| March 19, 2004 | - A United Nations official said that Sudan now has the worst humanitarian crisis in the world, and he compared the government's program of ethnic cleansing, systematic rape, and murder to the Rwandan
genocide.
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BBC
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| February 17, 2004 | -
Rwanda's prosecutor general said that thousands of genocide suspects would be released from prison if they simply confessed their crimes and begged forgiveness.
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Reuters
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| January 22, 2004 | -
Rwanda's former minister for higher education was given a life sentence for genocide.
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Al-Jazeera
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| December 4, 2003 | - Three Rwandan journalists were convicted by an international court in Tanzania for inciting the 1994 genocide on the radio and in print.
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New York Times
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| December 3, 2003 | - Eighteen Rwandan Hutus were given prison sentences for orchestrating the slaughter of 20,000 Tutsis who were hiding in a church complex during the 1994 genocide.
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AllAfrica.com
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| January 14, 2003 | -
Rwanda said it was planning to release as many as 40,000 people who have been in prison for years for their role in the genocide of 1994.
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| September 12, 2000 | -
Rwanda's president expressed his disappointment that other nations did not prevent his country's 1994 massacres of Tutsis by Hutus.
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