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Rwanda Looks to Nature for Economic Growth

Mary Rose Madden | Rwanda | April 27, 2012

In Rwanda, April is a time for remembrance. Beginning on April 6, 1994, and continuing for the next three months, nearly a million people were killed in a genocide. Today, the ...
Batesville to Benin: West African Preaching School Helped by Southern Churches

Alex Daniels | Benin | April 21, 2012

In the land of Vodun, a form of spirit veneration more popularly known in the West as Voodoo, religion is an essential facet of life. George Akpabli, a Church of Christ minister ...
Censorship Looms Over Rwanda’s Future Journalists

Mary Rose Madden | Rwanda | April 20, 2012

Eighteen years ago, the pro-government radio station in Rwanda, RTLM, incited, encouraged, and organized Rwanda’s Hutu ethnic group to find, hunt, and kill their Tutsi ...
Cotton Growers in Limbo

Alex Daniels | Benin | April 16, 2012

As Congress prepares to craft a new farm bill in the coming weeks, Arkansas cotton growers are bracing for tens of billions of dollars in cuts in the cash payments and ...
With No Money to Fight U.S., 4 Took Cotton Case to WTO

Alex Daniels | Benin | April 16, 2012

In 2002, Brazil took the United States to international trade court, using its muscle as a large trading partner to force U.S. concessions. The South American country, a large ...
In Tiny Benin, Cotton Is King

Alex Daniels | Benin | April 15, 2012

Each day, Sambo Sero balances his hand-hoe over his shoulder and disappears onto the path that is barely visible from the dirt road. He navigates the twisty route for hundreds of ...
Beninese Scrape by on Average of $730 a Year

Alex Daniels | Benin | April 15, 2012

The van, having made pickups at roadside gas stands throughout Cotonou, snaked along pitted, dirt side streets toward the drop-off point. Empty, plastic gas containers filled ...
Uneasy Tension: The Catholic Church’s History in Rwanda

Mary Rose Madden | Rwanda | April 13, 2012

Today we bring you the second part of our series, “Rwanda’s Next Steps: A Generation Living in Genocide’s Aftermath”. In only 100 days between April and July 1994, ...
Indonesia Punishes Wildlife Traffickers

IRP Staff | Indonesia | April 09, 2012

Indonesia has more unique species of mammals, birds, and butterflies than any other country in the world. This diversity has made it a hot-spot for illegal wildlife trafficking, ...
A Generation Living in Genocide’s Aftermath: Sons of Survivors

Mary Rose Madden | Rwanda | April 06, 2012

In Rwanda, April is a time of remembrance, a time of collective mourning for the 1994 genocide. Some 800,000 Rwandans, mostly Tutsis, were killed in a deadly rampage that lasted ...