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Is Miami to Buffalo reverse migration coming? As #climate change brings more stifling summers and worse flooding from storms and rising sea level, what Americans consider a nice place to live may shift, along with Americans themselves @SebastienMalo news.trust.org/item/201904060… pic.twitter.com/yIR2EaNgLE
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💧Today is #WorldHealthDay,
Diseases linked to dirty water and poor hygiene kill 1 million people a year
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While Britain's departure date is unclear, charities fear no amount of extra time will help thousands of homeless Europeans prepare to stay legally in Britain | #Brexit #EU #Cities @crisis_uk @Shelter @MayorofLondon tmsnrt.rs/2ON0yIA
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Today #Rwanda embarks upon a week of commemorative activities and 100 days of national mourning
You can find out more detail about the events that took place 25 years ago here #RwandaGenocide news.trust.org/item/201904061…
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Protesters in Tbilisi said there was widespread frustration among those still waiting to be rehoused more than a decade after war drove them from their homes | @UmbertoBacchi reports #PropertyRights #LandRights #Cities tmsnrt.rs/2VnMAiN
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💧Today is #WorldHealthDay,
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Do you know how much #climatechange impacts your health?
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Cities remain racially divided more than 20 years after the end of apartheid in South Africa but could cycling, music and art overcome limitations? | @KimHarrisberg reports #Cities #PropertyRights #Africa tmsnrt.rs/2IaKYVV
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While Britain's departure date is unclear, charities fear no amount of extra time will help thousands of homeless Europeans prepare to stay legally in Britain | #Brexit #EU #Cities @crisis_uk @Shelter @MayorofLondon tmsnrt.rs/2ON0yIA
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Protesters in Tbilisi said there was widespread frustration among those still waiting to be rehoused more than a decade after war drove them from their homes | @UmbertoBacchi reports #PropertyRights #LandRights #Cities tmsnrt.rs/2VnMAiN
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'AlertNet', now Thomson Reuters Foundation News (@TRF_Stories), was set up after the #RwandaGenocide to cover wars, natural disasters and health emergencies - including the 'forgotten' crises that don’t make headlines elsewhere
Follow our coverage at news.trust.org pic.twitter.com/ufbjbjGuzl
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Rwandan troops invaded neighbouring Congo in the 1990s to try to hunt down perpetrators of the genocide, and again in the 2000s
Conflict in Congo since 1998 is estimated to have left over five million dead, mostly through hunger and disease
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It accused Theoneste #Bagosora of being in charge of the troops and Interahamwe Hutu militia who carried out the massacres
He was found guilty and given a life sentence – though it was reduced to 35 years on appeal in 2011
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In December 1996, Rwanda’s first genocide trial opened under the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) #RwandaGenocide pic.twitter.com/biYHGju8YT
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In July 1994 a new government was sworn in with Pasteur Bizimungu, a Hutu, named president and RPF commander Paul Kagame as vice-president
Kagame was elected president in April 2000 and remains in the office
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The RPF advanced and seized control of Rwanda after driving the 40,000-strong Hutu army and more than 2 million civilian Hutus into exile in Burundi, Tanzania and the former Zaire, now Democratic Republic of Congo #RwandaGenocide pic.twitter.com/5CVSXR8ZNu
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Habyarimana’s death triggered 100 days of violence, perpetrated mainly by Hutus against Tutsis and moderate Hutus
About 800,000 people were killed, many butchered with machetes by militia known as #Interahamwe
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On April 6, 1994, #Habyarimana and neighbouring Burundi’s President Cyprien #Ntaryamira were killed in a rocket attack on their plane
The next day, presidential guards killed moderate Hutu Prime Minister Agathe #Uwilingiwimana, who had tried to calm tensions #RwandaGenocide pic.twitter.com/BgEi5conMx
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In August 1993, Rwanda and the RPF signed a deal to end years of civil war, allowing for power-sharing and the return of refugees
But President Habyarimana was slow in implementing it and a transitional government failed to take off #Rwanda #RwandaGenocide pic.twitter.com/d6Sjck9fKR
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In 1990, rebels of the Tutsi-dominated Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF) invaded northern Rwanda from neighbouring Uganda
The RPF’s success prompted President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, to speed up political reforms #RwandaGenocide #Rwanda pic.twitter.com/zBjjHOmsoa
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