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Rwanda harnesses lake "demons" to power the economy

2016-07-02 01:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Some Rwandans tell stories of "demons" in Lake Kivu causing the deaths of fishermen and swimmers who have occasionally disappeared on one of Africa's great expanses of water in the heart of the continent. Now Rwanda is turning the methane gas which can bubble up from the lake bed, sometimes with fatal consequences, into a lifeline by generating electricity to help businesses expand and light up a nation with a chronic power shortage. Across Africa, governments are struggling to increase power...

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Rwanda, Mexico Seek to Make Coffee the Worlds Most Sustainable Product

2016-06-21 03:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Triple Pundt: Nearly 9,000 miles apart, Rwanda and Mexico are the first countries to join the Sustainable Coffee Challenge - which aims to increase the demand for sustainable coffee. Representatives from both countries joined with Conservation International (CI) at European Development Days to announce their partnership in the challenge. CI launched the challenge back in December at the U.N. climate negotiations in Paris. It was intended as a call-to-action for the sector to make coffee the worlds first entirely...

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Rwanda, South Korea seek to promote E-health

2016-06-14 10:48:00| Telecompaper Headlines

(Telecompaper) The ministry of health has signed an agreement with South Korea to improve technology within the health sector, New Times reported. The collaboration is expected to improve cooperation between Rwanda and Korea in the field of telemedicine, hospital information system (HIS) and provision of ICT-based medical services.

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Rwanda: Turns Out You Do Need Weatherman To Know Which Way The Wind Blew

2016-05-30 22:29:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: Rwanda is known as "le pays des milles collines" EUR the land of a thousand hills. Weather varies by altitude; for farmers, detailed forecasts can make a huge difference. A key step to answering questions about the weather is to consult the historic record. But what if there were no record? That's the predicament that Rwanda faces. The civil war and genocide that devastated that country in 1994 also destroyed Rwanda's system for tracking weather. The result was that for a roughly 15-year stretch,...

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