Global Initiative Sites Updates 2024

                                                                   April 05 - April 18th, 2024 Rwanda Rwanda marks Kwibuka 30 President Paul Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame on Sunday, April 7, were joined by the global community to mark the 30th commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. As the country started the 100 days of remembrance, President Kagame and First Lady and other visiting dignitaries including heads of state and government laid wreaths in honour of the more than one million lives lost during the Genocide against the Tutsi. The President also lit the flame of remembrance at Kigali Genocide Memorial. Among the dignitaries present also was Former US President Bill Clinton, Nicolas Sarkozy, the former President of France, former President of South Africa Thabo Mbeki, a...

                                                              March 21 - April 04, 2024 Lebanon Palestinian refugees in Lebanon face difficult Ramadan “We dubbed it the fake kabseh,” says Mariam with a smile, as she stirs a pot of aromatic vegetables in her home in Tyre, southern Lebanon. The young mother of three is busy preparing the dish for iftar.  The main ingredient of kabseh, a Middle Eastern dish made of spiced rice, is chicken. But, here in Maachouk, an impoverished neighbourhood of Tyre which has long been home to Palestinian refugee families, residents such as Mariam have replaced chicken with flavoured cubes to mimic the taste of meat. Mariam has also now mastered chicken Maggi-flavoured maklouba, the traditional Palestinian dish usually made with layers of roasted vegetables, meat and seasoned ri...