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Hotel Rwanda Humanitarian Paul Rusesabagina speaks about the need for Truth and Reconciliation in Rwanda and the Power of Words to create peace in the Great Lakes region in Africa.

Yampu Tours launches a new website with experts guiding clients to Southern and Eastern Africa.

Strategic Leadership Development International, Inc. has opened its first overseas offices in Kigali, Rwanda and will begin offering leadership development seminars in Rwanda in September. The company will also expand into Kenya and Uganda next year.

The Sock Company has made a generous in-kind donation of dance shoes and apparel to Kigali-based dance studio Ballet Rwanda.

Saddleback Leather Co is running a unique promotion with the daily-deal site Moolala. Running through Tuesday July 5th, Moolala subscribers who donate $25 to Africa New Life Ministries will receive a $50 voucher toward Saddleback Leather Co.

This new photography tour by Terra Incognita Ecotours features expert photography instruction by award-winning National Geographic Wildlife Photographer Kevin Schafer

Rwandans, Congolese and Americans Join Together In Support of Peace and Reconciliation to Protest the Appearance to President Paul Kagame of Rwanda  in Chicago on June 11 

Successful Small and Medium Enterprises have a chance to show case their products and services to USA commercial and retail buyers at the East African Business EXPO USA 2011 at the Chase Center on the Riverfront in Wilmington Delaware in August 2011.

The Greater Cleveland Sports Commission has teamed up with SURF Survivors Fund who has been working to raise funds to bring the Rwandan girls to Cleveland so they can participate in this summer’s AC Milan Continental Cup soccer tournament.

Dallas-based Strategic Leadership Development International has entered a joint venture with Leadership Training Associates International of Nairobi, Kenya to provide leadership development programs for nations of East Africa starting this year.

The Residential School experience is one that left a heart-breaking legacy.

Friends of the Books & Beyond Project will be holding an Inaugural Gala on Sunday, January 16, 2011 with special guest stars.

Ethiopia, Kenya, and Malawi are among the first eight nations that will receive funds from the U.S. government’s Global Health Initiative (GHI) Plus grant.

Enablis Entrepreneurial Network today inaugurated a twelfth chapter in Africa, further extending its reach and support to entrepreneurs. Six entrepreneurs were selected in Rwanda and accredited as founding members.

Scenario Development, launching the project “Scenarios on the Future of Rwanda” have reached the critical mass on the Advisory Panel and argue the case for developing scenarios in an article in This Is Africa, A Financial Times publication.

Teens in Prosper ISD launching a project to build the first Rwandan Genocide memorial in the U.S. By using twitter, the students hope to achieve 1 Million Tweets, one for every person killed, in 100 days, the amount of days the Genocide took.

Scenario building methods to be used to create future scenarios about Rwanda, its socio-economic, political, environmental and human outlook. Rwanda is an increasingly central player in East and Sub-Saharan Africa.

MANA received a private $250,000 commitment toward its plan for production of Ready-to-Use Therapeutic Food (RUTF) in Rwanda. This funding will help MANA serve more than 20,000 children annually who suffer from severe acute malnutrition.

Members of Viability, LLC will travel East Africa to meet with clean energy project developers and explore carbon credit ventures

Young Professional Leader joins PMForum’s Global Correspondents Network to provide project management news coverage from East Central Africa

Explore is painfully aware that the mountain gorilla is slipping into extinction. So on 26 September, 9 team members dressed head-to-toe as gorillas and ran 7km across London raising £4041 to help preserve the largest primates in the wild.

Mojatu.com, the Eastern Africa directory, classified and events listing website and magazine based in UK is recruiting magazine and website vendors and agents in UK and Eastern Africa. The recruitment which started in September is ongoing.

Mojatu, the Eastern Africa Directory, Classified and Events listing website and Magazine is to offer Free Monthly magazines in UK , Eastern Africa - Kenya Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somali.

The Institute for Economic Empowerment of Women and its Peace through Business program lands in Dallas, Texas for the first time this year. The program provides long-term business training to women entrepreneurs in Afghanistan and Rwanda.

Organization is raising money to offer free classes to children in Kigali, Rwanda, in order to provide an arts education opportunity within an educational system of severely limited resources.

Mojatu.com, the directory, classified, events and special offers listing company has launched an eMagazine to enhance advertisements. The eMagazine, like the print version, is free, published monthly and can be read or downloaded at www.mojatu.com.

What is the ICC waiting for to issue an arrest warrant against Nkunda?

Premier Invoice Finance and Asset Based Lender Venture Finance, who this month celebrate their 20th anniversary, is proud to announce its support for employee Glyn Edbrooke, who is due to embark on a three-month charity sabbatical in Rwanda.

In continuing humanitarian efforts, ReadingGlasses.com and Reading Glasses To Go retail stores announce its donation of 2,230 new pairs of men's and women's reading glasses to American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee's (JDC) non-sectarian project

Lane H. Montgomery, Author of Never Again, Again, Again...Genocide:...., and Andrew Hannah, leading humanitarian of the Bridge Foundation which provides humanitarian relief worldwide, to discuss "Genocide and the Responsibility to Protect (R2P)"

Students from across New York will unite on Monday 7th April from 10am to 2pm in Washington Square Park to read the testimonies of Rwandan survivors and call for recognition of Rwandan survivors for equal treatment to AIDS Relief

Fresh from volunteering on social action projects in Rwanda with David Cameron and the Conservative Party, trip organisers Different Travel highlight the benefits of short-term volunteering and voluntourism.