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Godleaves Mukamunana, left, hid Domitil Mukakumuranga, in her house for weeks so that Hutu militias wouldn't kill her. "Seeing her alive is the best thing," Mukamunana says. "That kind of relationship we have is priceless. The fact that I don't have more

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Remembering Rwandans Who Followed Their Conscience

5:10pm May 05, 2014

by Gregory Warner

"I would do it again and again and again," says one Hutu woman who defied orders and sheltered Tutsis during the 1994 genocide. Rwanda is beginning to recognize people who rescued those at risk.

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Kerry Turns His Attention To South Sudan's Civil War

7:35am May 01, 2014

by Gregory Warner

Secretary of State John Kerry has been consumed by the crisis in Ukraine and the Mideast peace talks. He's focusing now on the new nation of South Sudan which is being torn apart in a civil war.

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Egyptian Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy meets with U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry on Tuesday in Washington, D.C.

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Egypt's Relations With U.S.: 'It's Like A Marriage. It's Not A Fling'

9:24pm April 29, 2014

In an interview with NPR, Egypt's Foreign Minister Nabil Fahmy pushes back against critics, insisting that his government will restore democracy and saying that the courts are acting independently.

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A teacher at the Bridge International Academy school in Kinoo, near Nairobi, Kenya, gives a lesson to young students. Bridge, a private, for-profit company, has set up more than 200 schools in the country.

Do For-Profit Schools Give Poor Kenyans A Real Choice?

1:54pm April 22, 2014

by Jason Beaubien

American entrepreneurs in Kenya are attempting to fundamentally transform education for some of the poorest kids in the world — while making a profit.

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Egyptians Fear Power Outages Could Fuel More Unrest

12:34pm April 22, 2014

by Leila Fadel

The oil and natural gas that Egypt depends on for power generation is heavily subsidized. But the state doesn't want to raise prices and anger a population already frustrated by political uncertainty.

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Kenyan security officers rounded up people Friday as part of a crackdown that has swept up thousands of undocumented refugees, immigrants and Kenyan citizens of Somali descent in recent weeks.

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Somalis In Kenya Are Used To Raids, But They Say This Was Different

8:12pm April 18, 2014

by Gregory Warner

A police sweep after Friday prayers is the latest in a weeks-long crackdown against terrorism. The operations have pulled in thousands of refugees, immigrants and Kenyan citizens of Somali descent.

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Rescuers Deliver Most, But Not All, Nigerian Schoolgirls To Safety

8:20pm April 16, 2014

by Ofeibea Quist-Arcton

According to the Nigerian military, all but eight of the girls kidnapped from a Nigerian boarding school have been rescued. As many as 100 girls had been abducted by militants earlier in the week.

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Drought Could Complicate Already Difficult Food Crisis In Syria

7:03pm April 13, 2014

by NPR Staff

The World Food Programme is moving about 40,000 tons of food around Syria each month, navigating conflict zones and checkpoints. And now a potential drought could hurt food production in the country.

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Rwandan women hold candles during a night vigil and prayer for genocide victims at Amahoro stadium.

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Rwanda Honors Dead, Celebrates Progress, 20 Years After Genocide

8:46am April 08, 2014

by Gregory Warner

The brutality that began in Rwanda in April 1994 left 800,000 dead in just over three months. Some collapsed in grief as the country marked the anniversary of those dark days.

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Rwandan genocide-hunter Dafroza Gauthier on February 4, 2014 at the opening of the trial of Pascal Simbikangwa, Rwanda's former intelligence chief, charged with complicity in the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

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Fighting For Rwanda's Justice In France

8:00pm April 06, 2014

by NPR Staff

The first Rwandan genocide trial to take place in France sent a man to prison for 25 years last month. Dafroza Gauthier and her organization helped make that conviction possible.

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