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(AP) — Five nations in East Africa implemented new economic rules Thursday to boost cross-border employment and trade. The new steps push forward a larger plan to integrate the economies of Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda, which together form the East African Community. When most African countries gained independence from European colonial powers in the […]
(New York Times) — Rwanda has had national health insurance for 11 years now; 92 percent of the nation is covered, and the premiums are $2 a year. Sunny Ntayomba, an editorial writer for The New Times, a newspaper based in the capital, Kigali, is aware of the paradox: his nation, one of the world’s […]
(Chicago Tribune) –An attorney who grew up on Chicago‘s South Side and helped run his father’s manufacturing company in the city before receiving a law degree has been arrested in Rwanda for allegedly denying genocide. Now his family is working with lawmakers stateside and abroad to secure his release. Read More…