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    The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occurred between 7 April and 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. During this...
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    Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and...
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    period of ethnic violence in Rwanda from 1959 to 1961 between the Hutu and the Tutsi, two of the three ethnic groups in Rwanda. The revolution saw the country...
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    Ruanda-Urundi (redirect from Rwanda-Burundi)
    Ruanda-Urundi (French pronunciation: [ʁwɑ̃da uʁundi]), later Rwanda-Burundi, was a colonial territory, once part of German East Africa, that was occupied...
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    Modern relations between the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Rwanda have origins that date back to the colonial era. Sharing a border that is 221...
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  • Rwandan genocide denial is the pseudohistorical assertion that the Rwandan genocide did not occur, specifically rejection of the scholarly consensus that...
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    French is entitled J'ai serré la main du diable: La faillite de l'humanité au Rwanda. The documentary film Shake Hands with the Devil: The Journey of Roméo...
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    Relations between Burundi and Rwanda have existed for at least as long as the states themselves. Before contact with Europeans, Rwanda and Burundi were kingdoms...
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    Pierre Habumuremyi (category Prime Ministers of Rwanda)
    Pierre-Damien Habumuremyi (born 20 February 1961) is a Rwandan politician who served as Prime Minister of Rwanda from 7 October 2011 until 24 July 2014. He...
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    (1998), The Rwanda Crisis, 1959-1994, London: Hurst & Co., ISBN 9781850653721 Renversement du gouvernement de Grégoire Kayibanda au Rwanda, 1973 at Université...
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    Juvénal Habyarimana (category Far-right politics in Rwanda)
    March 1937 – 6 April 1994) was a Rwandan politician and military officer who served as the second president of Rwanda, from 1973 until his assassination...
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    Théoneste Bagosora (category People convicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda)
    1941 – 25 September 2021) was a Rwandan military officer. He was chiefly known for his key role in the 1994 Rwandan genocide for which he was sentenced...
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    King (umwami) of Rwanda between 1931 and 1959. He was the first Rwandan king to be baptised, and Roman Catholicism took hold in Rwanda during his reign...
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  • Michel Rwagasana (category Political office-holders in Rwanda)
    1963) was a Rwandan politician who served as secretary general of the Union Nationale Rwandaise (UNAR) and represented Nyanza in the Rwandan Legislative...
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    African Union (redirect from The AU)
    government by both sides. A number of AU member states led by Ethiopia, Nigeria, and Rwanda requested that the AU recognise the NTC as Libya's interim...
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    between the African Great Lakes region and East Africa. It is bordered by Rwanda to the north, Tanzania to the east and southeast, and the Democratic Republic...
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  • Ethiopia (abolished 1975) Kingdom of Libya (abolished 1969) Kingdom of Rwanda (abolished 1961) Kingdom of Tunisia (abolished 1957) Sultanate of Zanzibar (abolished...
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  • Bugesera invasion (category Wars involving Rwanda)
    was later altered to give Kayibanda the presidency. In the September 1961 Rwandan parliamentary election, PARMEHUTU won an overwhelming majority of the...
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  • "Rwanda Rwacu" (Kinyarwanda: [ɾɡwɑːndɑ ɾɡwɑtʃu], French: "Notre Rwanda", lit. '"Our Rwanda"') was the national anthem of Rwanda from 1962 to January 1...
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  • commander-in-chief in French Algeria), it took place from the afternoon of 21 to 26 April 1961 in the midst of the Algerian War (1954–1962). The organisers of the putsch...
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    kingdoms as well as areas which later became part of Rwanda and Tanzania. Together with the Kingdom of Rwanda, he conquered and divided the Bugesera kingdom...
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    instance, the preferential treatment given to ethnic Hutus over Tutsis in Rwanda during German and Belgian rule). Faced with increasingly frequent and severe...
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    CHOGM, in Rwanda in 2022, the chair-in-office has been the president of Rwanda. The 26th CHOGM was initially to be held in Kigali, Rwanda, in June 2020...
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    on combat operations outside mainland Australia. These include Somalia, Rwanda, Namibia, East Timor, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Iraq and Afghanistan...
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  • Louis Rwagasore (category 1961 deaths)
    Belgian administration. In 1961 the Belgian administration officially renamed Ruanda-Urundi as Rwanda-Burundi. For the 1961 legislative elections, UPRONA...
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    East African Community (category Economy of Rwanda)
    from 1948 to 1961, the East African Common Services Organization (EACSO) from 1961 to 1967, and the EAC from 1967 to 1977. Burundi and Rwanda joined the...
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  • World Cup qualifiers, Benin were placed in Group H with Algeria, Mali and Rwanda. They finished third in their group, failing to advance to the next round...
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  • Kigeli III Ndabarasa (category Rwandan kings)
    (reigned 1765–1792 or 1786–1796) was a warrior Mwami of the Kingdom of Rwanda during the eighteenth century. The son of Cyilima II Rujugira, he was raised...
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  • Charles Manson Jeremy Davies Hidalgo Frank Hopkins Viggo Mortensen Hotel Rwanda Paul Rusesabagina Don Cheadle Ike: Countdown to D-Day Dwight D. Eisenhower...
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    Dorothée Munyaneza (category Rwandan women singers)
    British-Rwandan singer, actress, dancer and choreographer. She has produced two performance pieces, Samedi Détente and Unwanted, both about the Rwandan genocide...
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