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World leaders move accelerate deployment broadband: Rwanda
ITNewsAfrica.com July 12, 2010 http://www.itnewsafrica.com/?p=8284 Broadband Commission is co-chaired by President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Mr Carlos Slim Helú Leading lights from industry, civil society, UN agencies and the creative sphere, who together comprise the Broadband Commission for Digital Development, have emphasized the critical role of broadband networks in future global development. Commissioners met [...]
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Rwanda: Use Broadband Technology to Achieve MDG’s – Kagame
The New Times – Rwanda’s First Daily By Edmund Kagire President Kagame, Dr. Hamadoun Toure, (L) and Mr. Carlos Slim (R) at the meeting yesterday (Courtesy Photo) President Paul Kagame, has called on the world to recognise the important link between broadband technology and achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG’s). Kagame, made the remarks, yesterday, [...]
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Toms Shoes Donates 33,333 shoes in Rwanda
Toms Shoes, a California-based shoe company that matches each pair sold with a pair given to a child in need, has donated over 30,000 shoes to the children of Rwanda. New Life Church of Little Rock, AR is making its second trip to Rwanda to distribute these shoes. In March, they performed a ‘warm-up’ run [...]
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Rwanda: Kagame Awarded for Education
AllAfrica.com By Florence Mutesi July 5, 2010 Kigali — Rwanda International Network Association (RINA), over the weekend, awarded President Paul Kagame for his continuous efforts in the promotion of Education. The award was received, on behalf of the President, by James Kimonyo, Rwanda’s Ambassador to the USA at a function held at Georgetown University in [...]
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Rwanda: 361 Graduate at INES-Ruhengeri
AllAfrica.com By Bonny Mukombozi July 2, 2010 Musanze-Ruhengeri Institute of Higher Education (INES), on Wednesday held its first graduation ceremony where 361 students graduated with degrees in various disciplines. 45 percent of the graduates were female. The Minister of Education, Dr. Charles Murigande, who also acts as the institute’s Chancellor and represented President Paul Kagame [...]
Rwanda: You Have What It Takes to Develop
allAfrica.com By: Edmund Kagire June 28, 2010 Kigali — President Paul Kagame, yesterday, told the youth that they form the engine that the country can run on to achieve its development goals and build the country that the Rwandan people want. Addressing thousands of youth from across the country, who had converged at the national [...]
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Rwanda: Kagame Accepts UN Appointment
Allafrica.com By Edmund Kagire June 25, 2010 President Paul Kagame yesterday said that he feels greatly honoured to be appointment co-chair of the MDG Advocacy Group, made up of the world’s leading thinkers, coming together to combat poverty. He said that he is ready to share Rwanda’s experience with the rest of the world. UN [...]
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Bridge2Rwanda Country Director: Tom Allen on Rwanda
After 30 years as a successful attorney in California, Tom Allen is a typical Halftimer who was determined to move beyond success to significance. Tom realized that his life comfortably ensconced in a safe cocoon was missing out on too much of what might be learned, experienced, and shared with others in developing countries so [...]
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Rwanda: A Dirt Poor Nation, With a Health Plan
Marc Hofer for The New York Times June 14, 2010 TEST PATTERN A technician in Mayange takes a blood sample from a woman suspected of having malaria. Rwanda’s health plan covers 92 percent of its 9.7 million people. It has no running water, and the delivery room is little more than a pair of padded [...]
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Can Rwanda control its exploding population?