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Nyamagabe Focuses on Protection of Nyungwe National Park
The Security Council meeting that brought together all security personnel, executive leaders from sectors neighboring Nyungwe National Park and different partners in development convened on Wednesday the 3rd.July.2013. This meeting was discussing the strategies to reduce the projects that cause insecurities to Nyungwe National Park including bee keeping, hunting, stone quarrying, and deforestation among others.…
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Karongi: Residents Request for Special Memorial Site
The 1994 genocide against Tutsis survivors in Mabuga sector in Karongi District need a genocide Memorial Site to be constructed at Mabuga Parish where most Tutsis in the area were massacred. This idea of constructing a strong and well maintained memorial site was brought out on Sunday the 19th.May.2013 in Mabuga sector during the special…
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Ruhango: Cleaning Genocide Memorials, a healing effect to Survivors
Genocide memorials’ cleaning towards commemoration has proved to be comforting especially to genocide survivors who take the activity as restoring value the killers denied the victims. This is because some 1994 Tutsi genocide survivors take time to clean and plant more flowers around memorial sites as a way of honoring the dead. Ibrahim Ndori, a…
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Ngoma: Motorcyclists Visit Kibungo Memorial Site
Motorcyclists in SYTRAMORWA, in the Eastern Province visited Kibungo memorial site and gave an aid of Rwf 90.000 to help in the maintenance of the site. SYTRAMORWA leadership said that they had visited many memorial sites with the aim of learning more about the genocide history as youths who are the future leaders of the…
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Nyamagabe: Rwesero cell youth visit Murambi Memorial Site
The youth accompanied by their parents from Rwesero cell in Busasamana sector in Nyanza district on Thursday the 18th.April.2013 visited Murambi memorial site in Nyamagabe district where most victims of the 1994 genocide against Tutsis are laid to rest. Rwesero cell residents visit Murambi memorial site These youth came to learn about the preparation and…
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Musanze: Busogo memorial to become District memorial centre
In order to have one District memorial centre in Musanze, it was decided that Busogo memorial site be made Musanze genocide memorial centre. The building of the Kigali Memorial Centre which is highly visited in the country This was revealed on March 26th 2013 during the preparations for the 19th genocide commemoration. During this event,…
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Nyanza Hospital Workers Visit Murambi Memorial Centre
While Rwanda prepares for the 19th genocide commemoration, workers at Nyanza district hospital on March 15th 2013 visited Murambi memorial centre in Nyamagabe district in Southern Province. The hospital staff that visited the memorial and contributed say their intention was to better understand how 1994 Tutsi genocide was done leaving the undoubted marks. After explanations…
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Nyamagabe: People Neighboring Genocide Memorial Site to ensure its cleanliness
After the community work for the Saturday of the February that was done on the 23rd.Feb.2013 which residents of Nyamugari and Remera cells in Gasaka sector did at Murambi Genocide Memorial site, the mayor of Nyamagabe district asked people to always ensure the sanitation and cleanliness of this memorial site. The mayor of Nyamagabe district…
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Exploring Rwanda’s Museums and Heritage Sites
The richness of a country’s history and heritage are very important aspects that create an identity for people of any nation in the world. Rwanda has a rich history that dates back to the Kingdoms, colonial and post colonial times; which has for long not been explored to attract local and foreign tourism, bring in…
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Gakenke: Buranga memorial site to be renovated
Buranga memorial site in Kivuruga sector in Gakenke District which has precisely 989 bodies of the 1994 genocide against Tutsis is soon to be renovated to be one of the best memorial sites in the district with required standards. Buranga memorial site The renovation of this memorial site is yet to begin as on Tuesday…
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