In a warehouse outside of Kigali‚ Rwanda‚ 15 drones sit waiting to receive a message. When the text comes in‚ one loads up and zips off into the sky – on a mission to save a life. Today‚ the government of Rwanda announced an emergency drone delivery service. These drones will make up to 150 trips per day‚ carrying blood supplies to clinics in need. Rwanda has relatively good infrastructure in some places‚ but in others it can be unreliable‚ says Moz Siddiqui at the Global Alliance for Vaccines
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6 April 2007 Research Library‚ ProQuest. Web. 3 Nov. 2010. Reeves‚ E. "Failure to Protect: International Response to Darfur Genocide. " Harvard International Review 29.4 (2008): 84-85. Research Library‚ ProQuest. Web. 3 Nov. 2010. Rust‚ Selina. "RWANDA: REMEMBERING THE UNFORGETTABLE. " Global Information Network 9 April 2010 Research Library‚ ProQuest. Web. 9 Nov. 2010. "Spectators to Genocide. " Wall Street Journal 2 Aug. 2007‚ Eastern edition: National Newspaper Abstracts (3)‚ ProQuest. Web
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The mountain gorilla was first discovered roaming the Virunga Volcanoes in Rwanda (von Beringe‚ 2002‚ p.9). German Captain Robert von Beringe and his African soldiers stumbled upon two mountain gorillas around the volcanic region on October 17‚ 1902 (von Beringe‚ 2002‚ p.9). Von Beringe captured and killed one of them and sent the body to the Zoological Museum in Berlin‚ Germany. Professor Paul Matschie‚ who worked with the museum‚ identified the gorilla as a new class and named it after its founder:
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NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA FACULTY OF APPLIED SCIENCES DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE BACC IV ACADEMIC YEAR: 2012-2013 CHAPTER 1. TOPIC: DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF AN ONLINE COMPUTER LABS MONITORING SYSTEM CASE STUDY: NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF RWANDA ICT CENTER/Helpdesk Unit
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Being outsiders‚ as the readers‚ there is absolutely no way of knowing what truly happened in Rwanda back then. The best way for us to understand what he is trying to portray‚ to attach his emotions and feelings to ours. Dallaire sets the scene and feel for the essay‚ “the blue sky was cloudless‚ and there was a whiff of breeze stirring the trees” (Dallaire‚ 497‚ 1) The sentence aids visualization on what Rwanda would have looked like as he just arrived‚ while also allowing room for us to compare the
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another potential bloody civil war. The Ivory Coast can have a successful democracy but they first must better unify their decaying states and integrate themselves in the international economy. With the failure of the United Nations to control the Rwanda genocide‚ the North Atlantic Treaty Organization provided sufficient military support for the Untied Nations to remove Laurent Gbagbo from power. When imperialism was at its peak in the 19th century throughout Europe the Ivory Coast was one of
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The character that I identify with most would be Paul Rusesabagina. Paul Rusesabagina was the manager of a Rwandan hotel called the Milles Collines. He tells his story about the genocide in Rwanda during 1994. I picked Mr. Rusesabagina because it is his autobiography and he is telling the story. Also‚ it’s easy for me to see how the simply rules of being hospitable can save the day. While reading the book‚ I came across an important observation of Mr. Rusesabagina. He stated that “facts
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"I certainly think that another Holocaust can happen again. It did already occur; think of Cambodia‚ Rwanda‚ and Bosnia" -Miep Gies. Genocide is killing a mass group of people in a certain group. For these reasons‚ a genocide could happen again today. An event the magnitude of the Holocaust could happen again because people in this world can just hate a certain group or religion and decide to commit a mass murder just because he hates that group or religion. An event the magnitude of the Holocaust
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the Macroeconomy since World War II‚ The Journal of Political Economy‚ Vol. 91‚ No. 2 (Apr.‚ 1983). jehane Sedky-Lavandero‚ Mark Vergara‚ December 2004. Rwanda: Ten years after the genocide. http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/rwanda_genocide.html. (accessed on 2010-03-16). Phuong N‚ Harvey M‚ Timothy Longman.‚ Trauma and PTSD Symptoms in Rwanda Implications for Attitudes Toward Justice and Reconciliation. Vol. 292 No. 5‚ August 4‚ 2009. Accessed from http://jama.ama-assn.org/cgi/content/abstract/292/5/602
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Political violence is carrying out an act of violence that is aimed at achieving a political goal. Political violence is a relatively broad term that can be grouped in three different ways based on the motives of the violent acts: Ideational‚ institutional‚ and individual. Such categories can help to explain how ethnicity‚ nationalism‚ religion‚ and ideology factor into the levels of political violence within a given state. Ethnicity and ethnic conflict within a state can cause inequality in a
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