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Week Three--Former Rwandan rebel leader Paul Kagame, the country's highest ranking Tutsi, was "elected" president by the parliament after the resignation of the previous Hutu president...
...Musuhura refugee camp was literally a purgatory, a place of suffering and expiation, where 40,000 Rwandan Hutu like Joseph Havamungo, 29, and Nereciana Mushankwano, 20, wandered amid the huts strung together of relief-agency donated blue plastic sheeting, trash-can fires and hastily dug pit latrines and sought to scavenge the one thing that could sustain life in this place: hope. They were between countries. Host Tanzania didn't want them, and if they returned to Rwanda, they feared Tutsi would seek revenge for the genocide perpetrated by Hutu extremists just two years before. The landscape around the camp...
...Rwandan tradition, if a boy meets a girl and decides he loves her, he finds her father, and negotiations begin. It is called an inkwano--the price a prospective bridegroom must pay the bride's family. Since this was a refugee camp, though, and personal survival, never mind personal wealth, was hard to come by, the bridal price was below market: one cow, payable in some distant future when Rwandan Hutu would have cows and land to graze them on. A Catholic priest presided over the ceremony, attended by the other refugees from Havamungo's Rwankogoto village and sealed...
...humanity could have precipitated a disaster had not the new Tutsi government headed by Paul Kagame secured international aid and, even more miraculously, somehow managed to bridge the bloody tribal divide. There were Tutsi reprisals against Hutu, but for the most part the reintegration of Hutu refugees into Rwandan society went smoothly...
...formal training," says Modesta, a traditional midwife. "I'm only learning now how to recognize risk factors and to decrease the risk of infection." Their equipment often consists of little more than cloth, an old blade and a string to tie off the umbilical cord. While the Rwandan government hopes eventually to have most women deliver in hospitals, that is wishful thinking in a country with only a few thousand hospital beds. The best chance of lowering maternal and infant mortality is equipping midwives with a few simple tools: razor blades, cloth, swaddling, disinfectant, soap and rubber gloves, plus training...