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Refugee camp in Zaire, 1994. The Great Lakes refugee crisis is the common name for the situation beginning with the exodus in April 1994 of over two million Rwandans to neighboring countries of the Great Lakes region of Africa in the aftermath of the Rwandan genocide.
Newcomer education is a need with international implications. The Refugee Convention of the UNHCR in 1951 listed public education as one of the fundamental rights of refugees, stating that “elementary education satisfies an urgent need [and] schools are the most rapid and effective instrument of assimilation.”
Additionally, refugees make up a large class of admission to the United States. Recent crises in the Central African Republic, South Sudan, Nigeria, and Burundi have been sources of migrants in recent years. [17] With recent restrictions on refugee entrance to the United States, refugees may face a harder time entering the United States.
Joyful Clemantine Wamariya (born 1988) [1] is a Rwandan-American author, speaker, and human rights advocate. [2] Born in Rwanda, she was forced to leave her home in Kigali and her parents at the age of six due to the Rwandan Genocide. She sought refuge with her extended family in the south of the country but was forced to flee again when the ...
Kagame began his primary education in a school near the refugee camp, where he and other Rwandan refugees learned how to speak English and began to integrate into Ugandan culture. [13] At the age of nine, he moved to the respected Rwengoro Primary School, around 16 kilometres (10 mi) away. [14]
The RPF was composed of over 4,000 soldiers, mostly the children of Tutsi refugees who had fled anti-Tutsi purges in Rwanda between 1959 and 1963. It portrayed itself as a democratic, multi-ethnic movement and demanded an end to ethnic discrimination, to economic looting of the country by government elites and a stop to the security situation ...
Rwandan emigrants to the United States (7 P) Pages in category "American people of Rwandan descent" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
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