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Esther Mujawayo and her daughters Amelia and Amanda.

A family looks back on Rwanda’s genocide and considers when forgiveness is ‘too much to ask’

Conflict & Justice

Esther Mujawayo and her three daughters escaped from Rwanda during the genocide. And they’ve spent the past two decades finding out what happened to their family.

Esther Mujawayo and her daughters Amelia and Amanda.

A family looks back on Rwanda’s genocide and considers when forgiveness is ‘too much to ask’

Conflict & Justice
Mbaye Diagne, a Senegalese captain with the UN's peacekeeping mission in Kigali saved an estimated 600 Rwandans during the genocide.

The world had abandoned Rwanda, but one ‘gutsy’ Senegalese peacekeeper refused to stay on the sidelines

Conflict & Justice
Mbaye Diagne, a Senegalese captain with the UN's peacekeeping mission in Kigali saved an estimated 600 Rwandans during the genocide.

The world had abandoned Rwanda, but one ‘gutsy’ Senegalese peacekeeper refused to stay on the sidelines

Conflict & Justice
A genocide survivor and her children.

Part III: Born of genocide

Conflict & Justice
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Nearly a decade after genocide, Rwanda aspires to high-tech future

Development & Education

With high population density and few natural resources, Rwanda is trying to carve out a path to a prosperous future using the model of one of the great Asian economies: Singapore.

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