Rwanda is a sovereign state in central and east Africa and one of the smallest countries on the African mainland. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
The largest faith in Rwanda is Roman Catholicism, but there have been significant changes in the nation's religious demographics since the genocide, with many conversions to Evangelical Christian faiths and, to a lesser degree, Islam.
The capital is Kigali. The official languages are Kinyarwanda, French and English. The president is Paul Kagome . The prime minister is Édouard Ngirente .
The Country profile, the CIA Factbook, and the history.
The genocide was sparked by the death of the Rwandan president, Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, on April 6. His plane was shot down above the Capital, Kigali. Ethnic Hutu extremists killed more than 800,000 Tutsis and politically moderate Hutus in a three-month rampage in 1994 while the world largely stood by. How the genocide happened; the background history; 100 days of slaughter. By mid-July, a rebel group called RPF (Rwandan Patriotic Front) formed by Tutsi exiles had taken the country - the killing ceased.
On January 12, 2010, Hutu extremists assassinated Rwanda's president in 1994 and used it as an excuse for the mass killing of Tutsi rivals, a government inquiry has found.
