Lindsey Hilsum
From Rwanda to Aleppo: a history of inaction
Every few hours I check my Whatsapp feed from the doctors in East Aleppo. They post videos of injured children and a combination of eyewitness news and desperate messages.
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Hotel Rwanda hero Paul Rusesabagina found guilty of terror charges
The man whose experiences inspired the film Hotel Rwanda has been sentenced to 25 years in jail, after he was found guilty of terror offences.
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Rwandan man warned about threat to his life
After the poisoning of former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury, other countries have also been accused of targeting exiles and dissidents. I have been talking to one Rwandan living in the UK who has been warned by police that there is an “imminent threat” to his life from his former government.
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Lindsey Hilsum
UK arrests one of Rwanda’s most senior military officers
The detention of General Emmanuel Karake Karenzi will strain relationships between Rwanda and the UK. He is expected to go before a court on Thursday.
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Lindsey Hilsum
Why we must recognise the needs of the children of rape
This week’s Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in Conflict must show that helping the children of rape is as important as acknowledging the suffering of their mothers.
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Remembering the horrors of the Rwandan genocide
In 1994, 800,000 people were massacred in Rwanda in the worst genocide since the Holocaust. Lindsey Hilsum was the only western journalist in the capital, Kigali. She recounts that terrible episode.
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Rwanda 20 years on: one journalist’s memories
Our international editor Lindsey Hilsum was the only western journalist living in Rwanda when the genocide began. In this moving interview, she talks about the horrors she witnessed.
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Team Rwanda: from genocide to the Olympics
Twenty years after the genocide, Adrien Niyonshuti became the first Rwandan cyclist to compete in the Olympics. He tells Channel 4 News about his journey and his part in a new film about the team.
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Warzone rape: Angelina Jolie and William Hague fly to Africa
Angelina Jolie and William Hague fly into the Democratic Republic of Congo as part of their battle against the use of rape as a weapon of war.
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Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda hands himself in
Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda, known as “The Terminator”, hands himself into the US Embassy in the Rwandan capital.
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Decision to stop Rwanda aid ‘marks start of new era’
The halting of aid to Rwanda is “Britain throwing down the gauntlet”, writes Foreign Correspondent Jonathan Miller who investigated alleged military interference in Congo for Dispatches on Monday.
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UK halts £21m Rwanda aid over DR Congo claims
Britain is withholding £21m of aid to Rwanda amid concerns that the state is supporting rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), it was announced today.
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M23 rebels to ‘withdraw’ from eastern Congo
The leader of the M23 rebel group in the Democratic Republic of Congo agrees to withdraw from the eastern cities of Goma and Sake, according to Uganda’s military chief.
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Lord Lawson: ‘Britain is funding Africa’s next tyrant’
Former chancellor Lord Lawson condemns the Conservative-led coalition’s rising aid payments to Rwanda, a country which he says is run by “an unscrupulous monster”, writes Jonathan Miller.
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Rwanda timeline: Descent into tyranny
Channel 4 News plots the chronology of major incidents in Rwanda since 2010. Many other attacks on democratic freedoms and threats against individuals have taken place.
