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| Republic of Rwanda République du Rwanda Repubulika y'u Rwanda Jamhuri ya Rwanda | |
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| Capital and largest city | Kigali |
| Official languages | English French Kinyarwanda Swahili |
| Leaders | |
• President | Paul Kagame |
| Area | |
• Total | 26,338 km² |
| Population | |
• 2012 census | 10,515,973 |
Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a country in East Africa. Paul Kagame has ruled Rwanda since the 1990s with support from Bill Clinton and Madeleine Albright.[1]
History[edit | edit source]
Rwanda became independent from Belgium in 1962, and the new government expelled Tutsis who had allied with the Belgian colonizers. In 1990, the Rwandan Patriotic Front invaded from Uganda in an attempt to overthrow the Hutu-dominated government.[2]
Rwandan genocide[edit | edit source]
Hutu President Juvénal Habyarimana signed a power-sharing agreement between the Hutu and Tutsi ethnic groups in 1993 but was assassinated in 1994. Within hours of the assassination, Hutu militias began slaughtering Tutsis and moderate Hutus. The Tutsi-led RPF seized power during the genocide.[2]
Aggression against DR Congo[edit | edit source]
Rwanda under Paul Kagame invaded the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1996. Rwanda supports the M23 rebel movement and profits off natural resources it steals from the DR Congo. In 2022, Rwanda invaded the Congo again with 500 soldiers along with the M23 rebels.[1]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Maurice Carney (2022-06-17). "A Quarter Century of a Western-backed War of Aggression Against the Congolese People" Black Agenda Report. Archived from the original on 2022-08-22. Retrieved 2022-09-08.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Jeremy Kuzmarov (2021-04-06). "Still Unsolved: the Great Crime that Triggered the 1994 Rwandan Genocide" CovertAction Magazine. Archived from the original on 2022-11-15. Retrieved 2022-12-24.