Dozens of customers lined up waiting to be served with different milk products such as yogurt, pasteurized milk, and fermented milk in the shop while scores of workers were operating milk processing machines to convert milk into different end products in another section of the company, named Zirakamwa Meza Dairy.
“April rains remind of a dark and grave period we went through in April 1994 when Interahamwe militias attacked our village and killed my husband, family members, friends and neighbors.
The month of April is a dark period in my life that I will never forget,” said the 58-year-old, who became a widow during the 1994 Rwandan genocide against the Tutsi that claimed over one million lives, mainly ethnic Tutsis during the about 100 days starting from April 7.
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Wednesday May 12 2021
Immaculee Kayitesi, owner of Zirakamwa Meza Dairy, was in her company in Nyanza district, about a two-hour drive from the Rwandan capital city Kigali, on April 30, 2021.PHOTO/CYRIL NDEGEYA/XINHUA
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She had even thought she might be the last woman left standing in the whole Nyanza district because it was almost impossible to survive.
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In an April rainy morning in Nyanza district, about a two-hour drive from the Rwandan capital city Kigali, Immaculee Kayitesi was seated at the counter of her dairy business, listening to the radio, while busy passing a bottle of sanitizer to one of her customers to sanitize his hands before buying milk products from her company.
2021-05-02 14:05:32 GMT2021-05-02 22:05:32(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Frank Kanyesigye
KIGALI, May 2 (Xinhua) In an April rainy morning in Nyanza district, about a two-hour drive from the Rwandan capital city Kigali, Immaculee Kayitesi was seated at the counter of her dairy business, listening to the radio, while busy passing a bottle of sanitizer to one of her customers to sanitize his hands before buying milk products from her company.
Dozens of customers lined up waiting to be served with different milk products such as yogurt, pasteurized milk, and fermented milk in the shop while scores of workers were operating milk processing machines to convert milk into different end products in another section of the company, named Zirakamwa Meza Dairy.
While survivors report mental disorders every year in April coinciding genocide anniversary, latest spike has COVID-19 links James Tasamba | 23.02.2021
KIGALI, Rwanda
A spike in mental health cases has been noticed in Rwanda among the survivors of the 1994 genocide which took place against the Tutsi ethnic group.
Although an increase in depression and other mental disorders are reported every year around April coinciding with the anniversary of the genocide, experts said the latest spike has links with the COVID-19 pandemic, which has also fueled anxiety.
In just 100 days in 1994, about 800,000 people mostly belonging to the Tutsi minority community were killed in Rwanda by ethnic Hutu extremists.