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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...expect to see many of those who cheered Laurent Kabila's march to power mourning over his assassination. Because the diminutive guerrilla leader, who assumed the presidency of the Congo only four years ago as the Rwandan army led an insurrection that swept aside the four-decade dictatorship of Mobutu Sese Seko, had become a caricature of the man he'd replaced. He headed up a corrupt, inept and duplicitous government that delivered little to its long-suffering people except more war. Kabila was reportedly shot dead Tuesday by one of his bodyguards, in what may have been part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Congo: Why Few Will Mourn Kabila | 1/17/2001 | See Source »

Power said the U.S. government does not take action unless its vital interests are at stake, using as an example the decision not to intervene in the Rwandan genocide...

Author: By Eugenia B. Schraa, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panel Debates Western Human Rights Record in Developing Countries | 11/14/2000 | See Source »

...plight of women giving birth in Rwanda--where 1 in 9 women dies during childbirth--we did so with a plan to help readers help the women we were writing about. Working with Netaid and the International Rescue Committee, TIME developed "birthing kits," which will be distributed to Rwandan women to help ensure safer, cleaner deliveries of their children. We chronicled the tragic death of one Rwandan woman and unveiled the new Internet initiative in our April 17 issue...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Rwanda, Help Arrives | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

...have been "elated" by the number of kits donated. He has set up a group of more than 30 traditional birthing attendants in Kibungo, Rwanda, who will package and distribute the kits over the coming months. And D'Harcourt says the story--and reader response--has had another impact: Rwandan government officials have begun making maternal health a higher priority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In Rwanda, Help Arrives | 6/19/2000 | See Source »

Donations for Rwandan relief can be sent to the International Rescue Committee at P.O. Box 98152, Dept. TM, Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: May 15, 2000 | 5/15/2000 | See Source »

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