WASHINGTON D.C., United States, January 23 (UNHCR) - In 1998, four years after the Rwandan genocide claimed the lives of nearly 1 million ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus, the Rwandan Tutsi army ...
University of Central Florida students filled the school's ballroom Tuesday to hear a message of peace from a woman who survived a Congo death camp.Click Like For Central Florida News Updates:“This is ...
The indomitable Rose Mapendo, a Congolese Tutsi, saw her husband murdered and endured imprisonment in a death camp with nine of her children; freed and relocated to Arizona, she became a tireless ...
PHOENIX, Arizona (CNN)-- Academy Award winner Susan Sarandon has a long-documented career in public advocacy, but as she describes it, those efforts have been "self-serving." "It's [an] overwhelming ...
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SILVER CITY – Rose Mapendo, a nationally recognized peace activist and humanitarian, will deliver a lecture at 6:30 p.m. Thursday in Light Hall. Mapendo will share her dramatic life experiences ...
In the late 1990s, brutal civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo destroyed Rose Mapendo's life. She was imprisoned with her children and eventually escaped. A decade later, she had emerged as a ...
Marcia Franklin talks with Rose Mapendo, a former Congolese refugee. Marcia Franklin talks with Rose Mapendo, a former Congolese refugee, about her life and work. Mapendo, who survived a harrowing ...