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The government of Uganda announced Monday it has begun trial use for an experimental Ebola vaccine by Johnson & Johnson amid the second-worst Ebola outbreak on record. Uganda accepted the vaccine after the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)’s former health minister resigned over alleged pressure to introduce it into that country’s population.

The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the Ebola outbreak currently ongoing in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) a “public health emergency of international concern” on Wednesday, urging more funding to stop the virus but warning against “travel restrictions” to prevent its spread.

A cleric who took a bus 125 miles south within the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) tested positive for Ebola upon arriving in Goma, a city of one million on the border with Rwanda, on Sunday.

WASHINGTON, DC – Jacqueline Murekatete did not expect to find her life’s work as a nine-year-old in Rwanda in 1994, when as many as one million people — including her entire family — were murdered in the span of about 100 days.

Rwanda finally laid to rest over the weekend the remains of nearly 85,000 genocide victims found in an estimated 143 mass graves beneath residential homes a month after the African country commemorated the 25th anniversary of the April 1994 slaughter.

Rwanda began a week-long commemoration on Sunday of the 25th anniversary of the 1994 genocide in which some 800,000 members of the minority Tutsi tribe, and those who sought to protect them, were murdered in a three-month rampage by members of the majority Hutu tribe.

Kristina Arriaga, president of the Oxford Society for Law and Religion, spoke this week about war’s devastating impacts on women.

The much-feared spread of Ebola virus from rural regions of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to larger cities and across the border into neighboring countries may be coming to pass.

Democrat Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida told an African-American congregation on Sunday that the U.S. is heading toward a situation like the Rwandan genocide because of “tribal” divisions.

The World Health Organization on Thursday warned of a “very serious situation” in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where efforts to contain an ebola outbreak are being hindered by fighting between numerous armed groups.

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COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — An appeals court in Denmark says a man can be extradited to his native Rwanda where he is suspected of committing crimes against humanity in 1994.

The head of the Organization of American States, Luis Almagro, warned on Monday that it is the responsibility of the international community to avoid a Rwanda style genocide in Venezuela. 

Ultimately, Kofi Annan made indifference to evil a hallmark of his executive tenure at the UN. His example must not be repeated.

A family member of one of the victims of the massacre of ten UN peacekeepers in 1994 during the Rwandan genocide has expressed outrage that Belgium is considering granting asylum to one of the men involved in the slaughter.

China’s communist head of state, Xi Jinping, arrived on Monday in Rwanda, the third leg of his Middle East and Africa tour to sell the nation’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) infrastructure program amid claims China is using the initiative to recolonize Africa.

Chinese President Xi Jinping will visit the Middle East and Africa between July 19 and July 27 to sell that region Beijing’s One Belt, One Road (OBOR) project, a global infrastructure plan to give China control of the world’s great ports, roads, and railways.

A burial ceremony was held on Sunday at the Ruhanga Genocide Memorial for 157 victims of the 1994 atrocity in Rwanda, the latest repetition of an observance held on April 15 of every year.

The government of Rwanda has closed thousands of churches and dozens of mosques in a bid to establish tighter state control over religion, following President Paul Kagame’s remarks that his country has too many places of worship.

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Authorities in the Rwandan capital of Kigali have banned Mosques from using loudspeakers during the Muslim call to prayer.

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The Knesset on Monday voted to extend tough restrictions on illegal migrants and shutter the Holot detention facilities in southern Israel in three months’ time, underlining the government’s commitment to planned mass deportations of African migrants to Rwanda and Uganda.

Israel is opening a new embassy in Kigali, Rwanda, and is weighing direct commercial flights to the East African country, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced Tuesday.

Rwanda’s Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo on Thursday confirmed recent reports that the country is in talks to take in illegal African migrants currently residing in Israel.

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When it comes to combatting genocide, words are trivial and action is everything. I am grateful to Sean Spicer and the members of the Trump team for taking action to give value to innocent Arab life.

Contents: Pope Francis apologizes for Catholic Church’s role in 1994 Rwanda genocide; A century of genocides

In a private audience Monday, Pope Francis asked forgiveness from the President of the Republic of Rwanda for the role played by Catholic priests and religious men and women during the Rwandan genocide of 1994.