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Rwanda - encyclopedia article about Rwanda. (2777 words) |
 | Paul Kagame Paul Kagame (born October 23, 1957) is the president of Rwanda, and was a founder of the Rwandan Patriotic Front and its military commander during the Rwandan civil war and the Rwandan genocide. |
| Rwanda's countryside is covered by grasslands and small farms extending over rolling hills, with areas of rugged mountains that extend southeast from a chain of volcanoes in the northwest. |
| Rwanda is a rural country with about 90% of the population engaged in (mainly subsistence) agriculture. |
| 20th Century Genocides - Genocide in Rwanda (882 words) |
| Rwanda is one of the smallest countries in Central Africa, with just 7 million people, and is comprised of two main ethnic groups, the Hutu and the Tutsi. |
| Although the Hutus account for 90 percent of the population, in the past, the Tutsi minority was considered the aristocracy of Rwanda and dominated Hutu peasants for decades, especially while Rwanda was under Belgian colonial rule. |
| Ethnic tensions in Rwanda were significantly heightened in October 1993 upon the assassination of Melchior Ndadaye, the first popularly elected Hutu president of neighboring Burundi. |
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