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- proper noun
Kinyarwanda , aBantu language ofRwanda .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a landlocked republic in central Africa; formerly a German colony
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Examples
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He suspected most of it was in a country called Ruanda that runs pretty much parallel with the Congo border to the west of Victoria Nyanza in German East Africa, and he was counting on finding natives who could tell him this and that that might put him on the trail of it!
The Ivory Trail Mundy, Talbot, 1879-1940 1920
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He suspected most of it was in a country called Ruanda that runs pretty much parallel with the Congo border to the west of Victoria Nyanza in
The Ivory Trail Talbot Mundy 1909
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Italiano · Ruanda: il genocidio, quindici anni dopo
Global Voices in English » Rwanda: Fifteen years after the genocide 2009
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Desde que la ofensiva diplomática de los Estados Unidos y el Reino Unido propiciara el acercamiento entre la RDC y Ruanda, el único discurso con respecto al FDLR ha sido el del abandono inmediato de las armas y la completa derrota militar.
Global Voices in English » Rwanda: The unresolved FDLR issue 2009
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Lamentablemente, y con independencia de su indudable desarrollo económico, ese temido escenario se asemeja a la realidad actual de Ruanda, según muchos expertos.
Global Voices in English » Rwanda: The unresolved FDLR issue 2009
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Español · Ruanda: Quince años después del genocidio
Global Voices in English » Rwanda: Fifteen years after the genocide 2009
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El pasado 19 de marzo, la experta norteamericana Ruth Wedgwood afirmaba ante el Comité de Derechos Humanos de Naciones Unidas que, a día de hoy, formar un partido político en Ruanda parece virtualmente imposible.
Global Voices in English » Rwanda: The unresolved FDLR issue 2009
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Our adoptive son survived the Cambodia's killing fields and as a nurse put himself in service of the refugees of Ruanda.
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Without the public good we're all dead -- Right and Left -- as the agonies from the Spanish Inquisition to Auschwitz to the Gulag to Pol Pot to Ruanda to Darfur bear witness.
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Rwandaconventional long form: Republic of Rwanda conventional short form: Rwanda local long form: Republika y'u Rwanda local short form: Rwanda former: Ruanda, German East Africa
Country name 2008
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