Archive for the ‘Rwanda’ Category
Look out, women! You know what they say about sneezing… (don’t you?)
I promise you this gets funny. In the last two weeks, I’ve grown terribly allergic to something in my house, probably in my room. I wake up sneezing in triplets every morning, and it’s hours before it subsides. I’m down to my last Claritin, which I’m saving for the worst of the worst, because the [...]
Goodbye to a great Great Lakes emissary
The Associated Press reported last night that former US Congressman and, later, Great Lakes Special Envoy Howard Wolpe died on Tuesday. Congressman Wolpe had a long and distinguished career before his work in the Great Lakes. Then he served as Special Envoy from 1996-2001, under President Clinton, and again in 2009, at the request of [...]
Twibuke
Today is the 17th anniversary of the start of the Rwandan genocide, and Kigali is quiet, as it has been every year I’ve witnessed this day. The day also begins a week of mourning that changes the mood here. There are no weddings and no celebrations; there’s no relaxing with a Primus in hand and [...]
Love that DIY aid? Here’s a chance to show it
This is the kind of private-life post that I generally prefer to leave out of my blogging, but sometimes exceptions need to be made. I’m raising money for one incredible Rwandan woman to study English in the U.S. this summer. She’s a single mother, a genocide survivor, and a Francophone in a world that belongs, [...]
Why an American lawyer is pulling the plug — literally — on a Rwandan refugee
There’s a lot to be horrified by in this New York Times story about the treatment of a Rwandan refugee named Rachel Nyirahabiyambere, in a vegetative state since a coma last year, by Georgetown University Hospital. The hospital essentially forced the family, who couldn’t pay for continued care, to pull the woman’s feeding tube by getting [...]
Dear Harvard Kennedy School kid, just what exactly are you reading?
I caught this New Times piece about a group of Harvard kids who toured Rwanda and met with the president. One of them told the reporter, “Frankly speaking, the portrayal of Rwanda in the Western press does not equal what we have seen here, so we are very enthusiastic about becoming ambassadors and taking the [...]
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