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 * Rwanda Moves To Limit Family Size**

Population in African Country Rwanda is at a very high number. The population has grown massively fast due to the numbers of people wanting to replace their old family members that had died from the Rwandan Genocide, which had a massive total of 800,000 Hutu killed. But now, the Rwandan government is planning to limit couples into having only three children per family. Currently the limit is six children per family, meaning the government is going to cut this number in half. "But because of the genocide, many people did not want to hear about birth control", (quoted by MP Odette Nyiramilimo). Also, the Rwandan officials "were reluctant to promote population control" due to the fact that after the 1994 genocide that took place during Rwanda's civil war, they "feared it would offend the survivors, who believed they had a right to replenish what they had lost," the Times reports. Population since 1994 in Rwanda has since then quadrupled, in a now estimated 9 million population.

Sources:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6358381.stm http://www.news-medical.net/news/2007/02/13/21874.aspx

Both these articles show importance on how the population of Rwanda is growing too fast, (at one of the worlds fastest population growing rates). BBC and the medical news both explain how the government is **PLANNING** to cut the birth rate by 50%, although this has not occurred yet, it is still being discussed. BBC clearly explains the current events, while the medical news somewhat lacks a bit of accuracy as BBC may have it, but the medical news has more sources that make the reading more reliable, a source like "The Times". Whilst BBC only has one person quoting.