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Welcome to the first of my weekly Great Lakes news roundups, which I'll publish every Friday in conjunction with the 海角大神 Science Monitor's Africa Monitor blog, a daily must-read for what's happening across the continent. If you see important, interesting or downright quirky news, send it my way.

In Rwanda, the shift to English language education has the country looking abroad for . The World Bank to reduce the student-teacher ratio, now 63:1. The Dutch consider , given this summer鈥檚 troublesome news cycle. This after the Dutch, in 2008, froze direct budget support because of Rwandan dealings in Congo 鈥� the latest of which the government .

On Saturday, Rwanda to the Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, joining 8 other countries who both give to and receive from the fund. On Sunday, the country with the Global Fund. And tourism may grow beyond gorillas. 鈥淲e鈥檇 like to show people not just the genocide, but Rwanda鈥檚 history before colonization, before the genocide,鈥� the head of tourism said.

Uganda wants more "," focused on the country's lakes and rivers. The Nile continues to lose whitewater to the controversial project, threatening a $1 million rafting tourism industry, thousands of , and the only people I've ever seen willing to swim a rapid holding only a jerry can for about $3.

Al Shabab blanketly all Ugandans. A Ugandan journalist is still missing, likely in government custody. At least three other Ugandan journalists are arrested on extortion charges, in separate alleged .

In Burundi, the World Bank calls out , urging the country to, uh, not be so corrupt. Reporters Without Borders calls out the country鈥檚 nasty practices. Local human rights activists succeeded in their call for an into the murders of 22 people in recent months, apparently of members of an ex-rebel group and supporters of the president鈥檚 political opponents. In response, the government threatens to shut down the group. The army with an unnamed "gang" in the west, killing a student.

The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is worried about , following an outbreak in its northwestern neighbor, the Republic of Congo. Evidence of emerges along the DRC-Angolan border, which 7,000 people have crossed in two months.

A BBC investigation suggests that a top general in the Congolese army is profiting from a (which continues to operate, despite a recent national ban on mining, 鈥渦nder direct military control鈥�). The minister of mines, under investigation in France for his alleged role in a massacre in the 1990s, Australia. A Canadian NGO launches a against Montreal-based Anvil Mining for 鈥減roviding logistical assistance鈥� to human rights abuses including a 2004 massacre.

Proving perhaps that Congo is more than rape and pillage, cribs a Radio Okapi broadcast about 40 people who died after a bush taxi 鈥� big trucks stacked sky-high with beans, maize and other produce, and then topped with a several dozen people 鈥� overturned near Lubambashi.

Around the region, pilot their conviction that in addition to being pretty, they know a thing or two about the provision of public goods. Tyra Banks a dress to electricity.

鈥� Jina Moore is a freelance journalist who blogs from Kigali, Rwanda at .