Rwanda, formally the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in East Africa’s Great Rift Valley, where the African Great Lakes region meets East Africa.
Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and is located a few degrees south of the Equator.
Rwanda’s President, Paul Kagame, is a Rwandan politician and former military leader, and a member of the United Nations Security Council.
He was elected Chairperson of the East African Community in 2019 and has been driving the African Union’s (AU) institutional reform since 2016.
President Kagame is the Chairperson of the African Union Development Agency’s New Partnership for Africa’s Development (AUDA-NEPAD) and the African Union’s Leader for Domestic Health Financing.
He spearheaded the war to liberate Rwanda as leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) forces beginning in 1990. In 1994, the RPF put an end to the Tutsi Genocide, which killed over a million lives.
Peace and reconciliation, women’s empowerment, investment, entrepreneurship promotion, and access to information technology are all trademarks of President Kagame’s administration, a cause he advocates as Co-Chair of the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development.
