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...SUNDAY AT THE POOL IN KIGALI By Gil Courtemanche Love amid war is an ancient literary conceit, but Courtemanche gives it a twist. The journalist-turned-novelist, who reported on the Rwandan genocide during the '90s, sets his unlikely but touching tale against that bloody backdrop. "Passion feeds on abandon," he writes. So it is for his protagonists, who kindle an affair as the country, riven by AIDS and ethnic slaughter but neglected by the rest of the world, descends into chaos...
...Sunday At The Pool In Kigali By Gil Courtemanche Love amid war is an ancient literary conceit, but Courtemanche gives it a twist. The journalist-turned-novelist, who reported on the Rwandan genocide during the '90s, sets his unlikely but touching tale against that bloody backdrop. "Passion feeds on abandon," he writes. So it is for his protagonists, who kindle an affair as the country, riven by AIDS and ethnic slaughter but neglected by the rest of the world, descends into chaos. My Life As A Fake By Peter Carey What happens when a poet decides to teach everyone else...
...from government forces. By late last week, Twagiramungu had filed a petition with the country's Supreme Court seeking to nullify the vote. Independent observers confirm the arrest and disappearance of opposition figures in the runup to polling; a dozen Twagiramungu supporters were detained in Kigali on the eve of the poll for allegedly planning violent acts. But while E.U. observers acknowledged the elections were "not entirely" free and fair, they still called the ballot "an important step in the democratic process." More Space For Safety THE U.S. Seven months after the loss of the space shuttle Columbia...
...Rwandan government backing, unleashed hell against their Tutsi neighbors. In 100 days, using guns, machetes, clubs and spears, they slaughtered some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. And now Uwize and thousands of other killers are coming home. At the end of January Uwize, 37, walked out of a Kigali prison carrying a small green plastic bag containing his entire wardrobe and a sack filled with the odds and ends accumulated during his almost nine years of imprisonment: water cans, pots, pans and an old pair of sports shoes. Along with other prisoners, he boarded a waiting white bus that...
...RECORD Blantyre Students torched the ruling party's offices over Malawi President Bakili Muluzi's proposed constitutional change, which would allow him to run for a third term. Kigali The Rwandan government launched a prisoner-release program that will seek to rehabilitate participants in the 1994 genocide before they return home. Moscow Russia deported American computer programmer Megan McRee, 35, accusing her of establishing contacts with Islamic terrorists. Phnom Penh Anti-Thai riots rocked Cambodia's capital after false reports that a Thai actress claimed the Angkor Wat temples actually belong to Thailand. Hyderabad An Indian research institute asked Iran...