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PODCAST: The incredible story of Maggy Barankitse, who saved thousands of children in the wake of a genocide

Maggy Barankitse is the founder of Maison Shalom, an orphanage and school that was created in Burundi in the wake of the Civil War there in the 1990s. Like in neighboring Rwanda, the conflict in Burundi involved acts of genocide...

Why are Journalists Fleeing Rwanda?

The journalist Anjan Sundaram is the author of the new book Bad News: Last Journalists in a Dictatorship, which details how the creeping authoritarianism of the Rwandan government has silenced the free press, even as that government is treated as a darling...

Rwanda is an International Development Success Story. But Can it Survive Climate Change?

Many international development experts will tell you Rwanda is a modern success. Since the 1994 genocide, the government has instituted policies that have sharply raised living standards nationwide, in a remarkable turnaround. But the country—in which agriculture employs more than...