{"id":77,"date":"2006-08-21T07:01:52","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T06:01:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/wordpress\/?p=77"},"modified":"2006-08-21T07:01:52","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T06:01:52","slug":"forgotten-world-26-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=77","title":{"rendered":"Forgotten world (26): Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On five occasions now, I&#8217;ve had a week-long feature on NightHawk devoted to parts of the world that tend to be under-reported or even forgotten. You can check out the previous 25 entries <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/ForgottenWorld.html\">here<\/a>. This week, I plan to run a sixth series of postings on this theme.<br \/>\nThe 1994 genocide in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rwanda\">Rwanda<\/a> &#8211; when some 800.000 were murdered in just three bloody months &#8211; has been portrayed in films like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FilmsD-I.html#HR\">&#8220;Hotel Rwanda&#8221;<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/FilmsN-S.html#SD\">&#8220;Shooting Dogs&#8221;<\/a>.<br \/>\nToday the country still faces desperate problems: two-thirds of the 8 million Rwandans live below the poverty line,  half are illiterate, and AIDS claims many lives. Four in five Rwandans live in rural areas and 90% of the workforce is still involved in farming. The country is landlocked and it has few mineral resources or oil deposits.<br \/>\nYet there is an ambitious plan, called <a href\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/international\/story\/0,,1834395,00.html\">Vision 2020<\/a>, to transform the country into one based on information communications technology. Half of the primary schools have at least one computer and more than 300,000 people have mobiles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On five occasions now, I&#8217;ve had a week-long feature on NightHawk devoted to parts of the world that tend to be under-reported or even forgotten. You can check out the previous 25 entries here. This week, I plan to run a sixth series of postings on this theme. The 1994 genocide in Rwanda &#8211; when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}