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The Genocide Archive of Rwanda will serve as a "unified repository" for all information related to the 1994 massacres, which saw about 800,000 people killed in 100 days, mostly from the minority Tutsi population.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.rwandafactcheck.com/news/rss-comments-entry-9696517.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>AFP: Kagame urges Rwandan exiles to come home</title><category>AFP</category><category>Belgium</category><category>Brussels</category><category>Kagame</category><category>diaspora</category><dc:creator>[Your Name Here]</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:56:56 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.rwandafactcheck.com/news/2010/12/9/afp-kagame-urges-rwandan-exiles-to-come-home.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">655455:7635224:9685177</guid><description><![CDATA[BRUSSELS — Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Wednesday urged compatriots living in exile to return home to better economic times though the country has still to recover from the 1994 genocide.

"If those who left returned they would see the country is doing better than when they left and that they are not doing as well as previously," Kagame said in an interview to the daily Belgian newspaper La Libre Belgique.

The leader of a country viewed as one of Africa's economic success stories flew into Belgium this week for a forum on development and while in Brussels met some 2,000 members of the Rwandan diaspora.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.rwandafactcheck.com/news/rss-comments-entry-9685177.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Guardian: Mountain gorilla numbers soar</title><category>DRC</category><category>Guardian</category><category>Mountain Gorillas</category><category>Virunga Massif</category><category>Volcanoes National Park</category><dc:creator>[Your Name Here]</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:54:21 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.rwandafactcheck.com/news/2010/12/9/guardian-mountain-gorilla-numbers-soar.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">655455:7635224:9685156</guid><description><![CDATA[The number of mountain gorillas living in the Virunga Massif in central Africa has soared by 26.3% since 2003, according to a new census. The increase in numbers from 380 to 480 individuals is thanks to "immense" efforts to reduce poaching and disease, scientists said – but should not be read as a sign that the fight to save the highly endangered species is over.

The 450-square-kilometre Virunga Massif is composed of three national parks: the Volcanoes national park in Rwanda – made famous by the film about the conservationist Dian Fossey, Gorillas in the Mist – the Mgahinga gorilla national park in Uganda and Parc National des Virunga in the Democratic Republic of Congo. According to the census, which was conducted in March and April this year, its gorilla population is growing at a rate of 3.7% a year.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.rwandafactcheck.com/news/rss-comments-entry-9685156.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Rwanda: Gacaca Has Delivered Justice - Study</title><category>Gacaca Courts</category><dc:creator>[Your Name Here]</dc:creator><pubDate>Thu, 09 Dec 2010 15:50:15 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.rwandafactcheck.com/news/2010/12/9/rwanda-gacaca-has-delivered-justice-study.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">655455:7635224:9685134</guid><description><![CDATA[Kigali — Over 93% of Rwandans believe that the Gacaca courts were very influential in delivering justice and facilitating the successful reconciliation of Rwandans, a study by the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission has revealed.

This has been revealed by a new report compiled by the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission (NURC) after a recent survey titled "the National Reconciliation Barometer."

Gacaca courts are semi traditional courts introduced to deal with a backlog of over a million cases of individuals suspected to have played a role in the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.rwandafactcheck.com/news/rss-comments-entry-9685134.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Europe stays true to Rwanda</title><category>Belgium</category><category>Brussels</category><category>DRC</category><category>Kagame</category><dc:creator>[Your Name Here]</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:15:43 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.rwandafactcheck.com/news/2010/12/8/europe-stays-true-to-rwanda.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">655455:7635224:9676234</guid><description><![CDATA[“Kagame! Murderer! Kagame! Murderer!” Hundreds of Rwandans and Congolese demonstrated in Brussels the last few of days. They were angry that President Paul Kagame was invited to the European capital. But the demonstration was in vain – Brussels and Kigali remain close friends.

“The president of Rwanda is a criminal”, said Paul Rusesabagina, the famous manager of Hôtel des Mille Collines who was among the demonstrators gathered on Albertina square in Brussels.

“It is a disgrace that the European Union welcomes Kagame. The UN charge him with war crimes in Eastern Congo. We want to wake up the international community.”]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.rwandafactcheck.com/news/rss-comments-entry-9676234.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Rwanda: Diaspora Community Can Make a Difference</title><category>Belgium</category><category>Brussels</category><category>Kagame</category><category>diaspora</category><dc:creator>[Your Name Here]</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 17:07:35 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.rwandafactcheck.com/news/2010/12/8/rwanda-diaspora-community-can-make-a-difference.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">655455:7635224:9676194</guid><description><![CDATA[President Paul Kagame, last weekend in Brussels, met with more than 2500 members of the Rwandan diaspora living across Europe.

While addressing them, he advised that they should be good ambassadors, who speak the truth about their country and disregard the lies propagated by Rwanda's detractors.

Rwandans know, more than anyone else, what the new Rwanda represents, having experienced, firsthand, the brutality and discriminatory practices of the previous regimes.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.rwandafactcheck.com/news/rss-comments-entry-9676194.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Minister Mushikiwabo delivers her speech at European Development Days (EDD)</title><category>Louise Mushikiwabo</category><category>videos</category><dc:creator>[Your Name Here]</dc:creator><pubDate>Wed, 08 Dec 2010 16:49:50 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.rwandafactcheck.com/news/2010/12/8/minister-mushikiwabo-delivers-her-speech-at-european-develop.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">655455:7635224:9676079</guid><wfw:commentRss>http://www.rwandafactcheck.com/news/rss-comments-entry-9676079.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Central bank sees Rwanda's 2010 coffee output up sharply</title><category>Coffee</category><category>Economy</category><category>Rwanda</category><dc:creator>[Your Name Here]</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:59:00 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.rwandafactcheck.com/news/2010/12/7/central-bank-sees-rwandas-2010-coffee-output-up-sharply.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">655455:7635224:9666149</guid><description><![CDATA[Rwanda's coffee output in 2010 is expected to rise to at least 433,000 60-kg bags from 233,000 last year, due to favourable weather conditions across the country's main coffee-growing areas this year, the country's central bank said. This is in stark contrast to an announcement by the country's Coffee Development Authority (Ocir-Cafe) in November which downgraded the projection for this year from 433,000 to 333,000 bags due to an extended dry spell in some parts of the country. According the central bank, output is also expected to be aided by the commencement of production from young coffee trees planted in the past five years. It added that the main coffee regions received well-distributed rains since the start of the year, aiding bean formation and development which boosted yields.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.rwandafactcheck.com/news/rss-comments-entry-9666149.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>Census finds increase in critically endangered mountain gorilla population</title><category>DRC</category><category>Mountain Gorillas</category><category>Rwanda</category><category>Uganda</category><dc:creator>[Your Name Here]</dc:creator><pubDate>Tue, 07 Dec 2010 15:55:56 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.rwandafactcheck.com/news/2010/12/7/census-finds-increase-in-critically-endangered-mountain-gori.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">655455:7635224:9666130</guid><description><![CDATA[A census of the world’s largest mountain gorilla population has counted 480 animals, an increase of 100 - more than a quarter - since the last count in 2003.  
 
The gorillas surveyed live in Central Africa’s Virunga Massif region, a volcanic mountain ecosystem consisting of three adjacent national parks spanning parts of Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), Uganda and Rwanda.  
 
A fourth park, southwestern Uganda’s Bwindi, is home to an additional 302 mountain gorillas, the only other remaining wild population, which together with four orphaned mountain gorillas in a sanctuary in the DRC brings the wild population to 786.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.rwandafactcheck.com/news/rss-comments-entry-9666130.xml</wfw:commentRss></item><item><title>PRESIDENT KAGAME MEETS RWANDAN DIASPORA IN BRUSSELS</title><category>Belgium</category><category>Brussels</category><category>Kagame</category><category>Rwanda</category><dc:creator>[Your Name Here]</dc:creator><pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2010 09:02:31 +0000</pubDate><link>http://www.rwandafactcheck.com/news/2010/12/6/president-kagame-meets-rwandan-diaspora-in-brussels.html</link><guid isPermaLink="false">655455:7635224:9651429</guid><description><![CDATA[Over 2500 Rwandans from across Western Europe at Gathering

4 December 2010

President Kagame on Saturday evening met with Rwandans from several European cities in Brussels at a festive gathering that comes four years since his last visit to Belgium. President Kagame is on a working visit to Brussels and will on Monday attend the fifth edition of the European Development Days.

Addressing nearly 2700 Rwandans and friends of Rwanda who had braved the unusually cold Belgian winter and travelled many hours to meet with him, President Kagame said that although each one of them were living outside Rwanda for various reasons, had come at different times and under different circumstances, Rwanda belonged to all of them, and what everyone seeks was a Rwanda for Rwandans, not for Tutsis, or Hutus or Twas or even foreigners – but for Rwandans.]]></description><wfw:commentRss>http://www.rwandafactcheck.com/news/rss-comments-entry-9651429.xml</wfw:commentRss></item></channel></rss>