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UN Secretary General and President of World Bank pay tribute at Kigali Genocide Memorial

24 May 13 - Ban Ki Moon, Secretary General of the United Nations, and Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank, yesterday paid their respects at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in memory of the victims of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide, in which approximately one million men, women and children were murdered on the basis of ethni...

Students mobilise in London for Sudan

22 May 13 – The student-led campaign #WeNeedToTalkAboutSudan ( weneedtotalkaboutsudan.com ) , partnered by Aegis Students , culminated on Monday this week in a mass tweet to foreign secretary William Hague and a celebration of Sudanese culture in the Wiener Library .

For one day only, visitors to the Wiener Library on London’...

Peace-building in Rwanda goes mobile

15 May 2013 – From this week, the Aegis Trust’s peace-building education programme in Rwanda will no longer be limited to the Kigali Genocide Memorial; it’s going mobile – starting in Rubavu, Rwanda’s Western Province, where it is being hosted by Vision Jeunesse Nouvelle (VGN), with support from GIZ (the German ...

Rwanda’s cycling star invites all to join charity ride from London to Paris

14 May 2013 - Speaking to a full house at Thursday night’s sold-out London charity premiere of ‘Rising from Ashes’ – the award-winning documentary about Team Rwanda, Rwanda’s national cycling squad – Olympic rider Adrien Niyonshuti told the audience he’d soon be back. He is aiming to return at the end of Aug...

Darfur whistleblower launches memoirs in Geneva

25 April 2013 - Ten years ago, British diplomat Mukesh Kapila became head of the UN in Sudan. Within a year of taking the post, he would publicly declare the Sudanese Government guilty of ethnic cleansing in Darfur.

  At the Geneva Press Club, 17.30 – 19.30 on Thursday 2 May, the whistleblower who first brought Darfur to...