Read more Rwanda stories on Newserhttp://www.newser.com/taggrid/13238/rwanda.html2009 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorTue, 24 Nov 2009 8:36:38 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/70481/mountain-gorillas-take-fight-to-survive-online.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagNot only can your online buddies be any age and in any location, they don't even have to be your species. Tech-savvy advocates of the endangered mountain gorilla are about to launch an umbrella site, friendagorilla.org, that will feature videos, social networking, and blogs—by park rangers, not gorillas....http://www.newser.com/story/70481/mountain-gorillas-take-fight-to-survive-online.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagMon, 28 Sep 2009 18:37:18 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/69705/rwanda-gorilla-king-dies-at-35.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThe 35-year-old king of Rwanda gorillas has died, reports the Independent . The once fearsome silverback, Titus, succumbed to old age after a brief illness, said officials. His troupe in a mountain forest of the African nation appeared to be mourning their fallen leader, observers said. Titus shot to fame when...http://www.newser.com/story/69705/rwanda-gorilla-king-dies-at-35.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 18 Sep 2009 2:22:56 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/55367/15-years-later-rwanda-moves-toward-forgiveness.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWhen Bishop John Rucyahana heard of the genocide wracking his native Rwanda in 1994, he did something unexpected: He returned home from Uganda. Since then, he has built schools for orphans and “reconciliation villages” where the genocide’s victims and perpetrators live together, Newsweek reports. “If Rwanda can recover from this,...http://www.newser.com/story/55367/15-years-later-rwanda-moves-toward-forgiveness.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagSun, 05 Apr 2009 16:46:06 CDThttp://www.newser.com/story/49714/us-college-suspends-prof-linked-to-genocide.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA US college has suspended a visiting professor suspected of participating in the Rwandan genocide, reports the Baltimore Sun . Rwandan prosecutors charge that Leopold Munyakazi, who was teaching French at Goucher College in Maryland, revealed hiding places of ethnic Tutsis to machete-wielding Hutu militias. "We have tried to act in...http://www.newser.com/story/49714/us-college-suspends-prof-linked-to-genocide.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 03 Feb 2009 4:07:09 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/49469/obama-sneaks-power-back-into-the-mix.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagBarack Obama’s national security team seems to consist entirely of people known for speaking their minds, observes Ben Smith of Politico, and none moreso than new NSC staff member Samantha Power, best known for calling Hillary Clinton “a monster.” She was booted for the incident, but that was just a...http://www.newser.com/story/49469/obama-sneaks-power-back-into-the-mix.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 30 Jan 2009 13:01:07 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/48761/rwanda-nabs-congo-rebel-leader.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFearsome rebel leader Laurent Nkunda, the head of a movement that has destabilized the Democratic Republic of Congo, has been arrested over the border in Rwanda. Hundreds of Rwandan troops converged on a mountain village last night inside Congo where the general was stationed, but he crossed the border into...http://www.newser.com/story/48761/rwanda-nabs-congo-rebel-leader.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagFri, 23 Jan 2009 5:31:55 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/45674/rwandan-genocide-mastermind-convicted.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA UN court has convicted the organizer of the 1994 Rwandan genocide that claimed more than 500,000 lives and sentenced him to life in prison, reports the AP. Théoneste Bagosora was found guilty of genocide and crimes against humanity, as well as the deaths of a Rwandan prime minister...http://www.newser.com/story/45674/rwandan-genocide-mastermind-convicted.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagThu, 18 Dec 2008 5:13:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44768/watershed-vaccine-may-end-malaria-toll.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagScientists have developed a promising vaccine against malaria, a devastating disease that kills a milion people a year, most of them young children. Trials of the breakthrough vaccine enter the final phase next year and it could be widely available by 2012, reports the Los Angeles Times . Successful trials have...http://www.newser.com/story/44768/watershed-vaccine-may-end-malaria-toll.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagTue, 09 Dec 2008 1:45:59 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/44305/surgeon-amputates-using-texted-instructions.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagA volunteer surgeon in a Congolese war zone followed texted instructions to perform an amputation that saved a 16-year-old boy's life. The teen's badly injured and infected arm required that his collar bone and shoulder blade be immediately removed, but Dr. David Nott had never conducted such a procedure. He...http://www.newser.com/story/44305/surgeon-amputates-using-texted-instructions.html?utm_source=syn&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=tagWed, 03 Dec 2008 17:11:28 CST