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World Service,11 Mar 2010,25 mins

Rwanda (Part 1): African Ambitions

Global Business

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Rwanda has huge ambitions to grow itself out of poverty and become a middle income country by the year 2010, as an information technology and business hub for central and eastern Africa. Rwanda although poor, hopes to set an example that it is possible to do proper business in Africa. Listen as Peter Day reports on how Rwanda is trying to re-create itself.

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