The Economist.

Hello and welcome'm Jason Palmer.

Every weekday we provide a fresh perspective on the events shaping your world.

Groulling wars fuel desperation and Gaza is no exception.

People are ransacking homes and selling the lutes at local markets

and gangs control the storing and

distribution of aid. Our correspondent looks at the shadowy economy that is

gripping the enclave.

And after today's total eclipse races across North America, it'll be nearly a decade before another is visible from somewhere in the United States.

And even then, only Alaska will see it.

Yet eclipses can only be said to be rare

if you stay in one place. First up there. Every year on April 7th, Paul Kagame Ruanda's president leads a ceremony to commemorate one of the most

greatly events of the 20th century.

Our hearts are filled with grief.

Sunday's remembrance service for the Rwandan genocide

was characteristically somber. As the nation marked three decades since the. genocide was

characteristically somber as the nation marked three decades since the start of the killing.

Rwanda was completely humbled

by the magnitude of our loss.

30 years ago, armed militias from the majority ethnic group, the Hutus, slaughtered hundreds of thousands of their countrymen,

nearly all of whom were from the minority

Tutsi group. The genocide took just a hundred days and left the country scarred.

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