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Little Rock coffee firm imports Rwandan coffee

By DAVID SMITH - Associated Press

Rwandan President Paul Kagame listens to a question while participating in a panel discussion on the campus of Tufts University, Tuesday, April 22, 2014, in Medford, Mass. Kagame addresses an audience Tuesday on issues relating to the 20th anniversary of the genocide of the Tutsis. (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

Rwanda’s Kagame: Lessons learned from genocide

By RODRIQUE NGOWI - Associated Press

Editorial Roundup: Excerpts from recent editorials

By The Associated Press - Associated Press

In this photo provided by the United Nations, former New Zealand ambassador Colin Keating addresses an open session of the United Nations Security Council at United Nations Headquarters, Wednesday, April 16, 2014. Keating, who was president of the Security Council in April 1994, apologized Wednesday for the council's refusal to recognize that genocide was taking place in Rwanda and for doing nothing to halt the slaughter of more than one million people. (AP Photo/United Nations, Evan Schneider)

Apology for UN refusal to stop Rwanda genocide

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

In this photo taken Wednesday, March 26, 2014, Emmanuel Ndayisaba, right, and Alice Mukarurinda, pose for a photograph outside Alice's house in Nyamata, Rwanda. She lost her baby daughter and her right hand to a manic killing spree. He wielded the machete that took both. Yet today, despite coming from opposite sides of an unspeakable shared past, Alice Mukarurinda and Emmanuel Ndayisaba are friends. She is the treasurer and he the vice president of a group that builds simple brick houses for genocide survivors. They live near each other and shop at the same market. Their story of ethnic violence, extreme guilt and, to some degree, reconciliation is the story of Rwanda today, 20 years after its Hutu majority killed more than 1 million Tutsis and moderate Hutus. The Rwandan government is still accused by human rights groups of holding an iron grip on power, stifling dissent and killing political opponents. But even critics give President Paul Kagame credit for leading the country toward a peace that seemed all but impossible two decades ago. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Rwanda genocide: Man and victim now friends

By Jason Straziuso - Associated Press

Rwandan stories inspire Michigan poet, professor

Associated Press

Former president Bill Clinton speaks at a student conference for the Clinton Global Initiative University at Arizona State University, in this March 21, 2014, file photo taken in Tempe, Ariz. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

Obama taps critic of Clinton’s Rwanda handling to head delegation remembering genocide

By Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

In this Aug, 2004 photo courtesy of Michigan State University, Dan Clay, left, discusses pre-drying coffee parchment with an employee at one of Rwanda’s first coffee washing stations in Rwanda. Clay had been in the Rwanda for two years directing a food security when war and genocide began in 1994. He, his wife and elementary school-aged children were evacuated by Rwandan military to neighboring Burundi, where U.S. Marines met them and they were flown out. After 20 years, Clay organized a combined business trip and family reunion to the country. (AP Photo/ Michigan State University, Nelson Wagner)

Rwanda a different nation for professor, family

By JEFF KAROUB - Associated Press

Rwanda’s repression victim studies law in Mass.

By JACK MINCH - Associated Press

M23 rebels gather in the eastern Congo town of Sake, some 27 kms west of Goma, Thursday Nov. 29, 2012. Rebels, who last week seized one of the most important cities in eastern Congo and advanced beyond, said Thursday that they had pulled back several miles (kilometers ) to the town of Sake and were on track to leave the key city of Goma by Friday, in accordance with a deadline imposed by the international community.(AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

UN says Congo’s defeated M23 rebels active again

By EDITH M. LEDERER - Associated Press

A new drone forming part of the UN, United Nation peacekeeping force in Goma, Congo, Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. A new fleet of drones will make their maiden voyage this week as observation craft in Congo's troubled east, where one rebel group was recently disarmed, but many more continue to occupy the area's dense jungles. United Nations peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said the five drones will be "an essential tool" in the peacekeeping mission's military plan. (AP Photo/Alain Wandimoyi)

U.N. embraces drones: ‘Tool of choice’ makes first deployment over DR Congo

By Douglas Ernst - The Washington Times

President Barack Obama talks on the phone in the Oval Office with Speaker of the House Boehner, Saturday, August 31, 2013. Vice President Joe Biden listens at right. (credit: White House photo/Pete Souza)

Obama’s foreign policy legacy: The accidental diplomat

By Ben Wolfgang and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times

Obama’s legacy on foreign policy could hinge on outcome with Syria

By Ben Wolfgang and Dave Boyer - The Washington Times