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Tunisian striker Hamdi Harbaoui celebrates after scoring against Rwanda during their friendly football match at Ben Jannet Olympic stadium in Monastir on May 27, 2012.

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  • Rwanda seeks life sentence for opposition leader

    (AP) -- Rwandan prosecutors say they are seeking a life sentence for a political opposition leader who faces charges of threatening state security, genocide denial and promoting ethnic division.Prosecutors sought the sentence Wednesday. Victoire Ingabire   Read more »

  • Rwandan court rules opposition case will continue

    (AP) -- Rwanda 's highest court says the case against a political opposition leader will proceed after she withdrew from the case.Wednesday's ruling means the prosecution will present its case Monday against Victoire Ingabire , who faces charges related   Read more »

  • Ethiopian troops to soon leave Somalia, PM says

    (AP) -- Ethiopian troops fighting al-Qaida-linked militants in neighboring Somalia will soon return home, Ethiopia's prime minister said Tuesday.Prime Minister Meles Zenawi said regions of Somalia currently controlled by Ethiopian forces will be handed o   Read more »

  • NH judge declares mistrial in Rwanda genocide case

    (AP) -- A federal judge declared a mistrial in the case of a New Hampshire woman accused of lying to obtain U.S. citizenship by denying her role in the 1994 Rwanda genocide after jurors failed to reach a verdict Thursday.Jurors had said Tuesday that they   Read more »

  • Top Rwandan rebel leader surrenders in Congo

    (AP) -- A top Rwandan rebel leader who has been fighting in neighboring eastern Congo has surrendered amid a U.N.-backed military offensive in the violence-wracked region, a Congolese military official said Tuesday.Lt. Col. Idrissa Muradadi and three of   Read more »

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About Rwanda

Rwanda IPA: [ɾ(g)wɑndɑ], officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a small landlocked country in the Great Lakes region of east-central Africa, with a population of approximately 8 million. It is bordered by Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania. Its fertile and hilly terrain, which gives it the title "Land of a Thousand Hills" (French: Pays des Mille Collines /pei de mil kɔ.lin/) (Igihugu cy'Imisozi Igihumbi in Kinyarwanda), supports the densest populations in continental Africa. The country is well known to the outside world for the infamous 1994 Rwandan genocide that resulted in the deaths of up to one million people. Dependence on subsistence agriculture, high (and increasing) population density, decreasing soil fertility and uncertain climate make Rwanda a country where chronic malnutrition is widespread and poverty endemic.

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