The biggest problems facing the government are reintegration of more than 2 million refugees returning from as long ago as 1959 ; the end of the insurgency and counter-insurgency among ex-military and Interahamwe militia and the Rwandan Patriotic Army, which is concentrated in the north and south west ; and the shift away from crisis to medium-and long-term development planning.

* October 1 – The rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front invades Rwanda from Uganda, marking the start of the Rwandan Civil War.

In 1991, the Rwandan Patriotic Front ( RPF ), a rebel group composed of 6, 000 Tutsi refugees from previous decades of unrest, invaded the country, starting the Rwandan Civil War.

Among these were Fred Rwigema and Paul Kagame, who rose to prominence in the Rwandan Patriotic Front ( RPF ), a Rwandan rebel group largely consisting of Tutsi veterans of the Ugandan war.

A Tutsi rebel group, the Rwandan Patriotic Front, invaded Rwanda from Uganda, which started a civil war against Rwanda's Hutu government in 1990.

At the same time, the Rwandan Patriotic Front took control of the country and is still the ruling party.

In October 1990, an invasion against Habyarimana's government began when rebels from the Rwandan Patriotic Front ( RPF ), a force of mostly Tutsi Rwandan refugees and expatriates who had served in the Ugandan army ( many in key positions ), crossed the border from Uganda.

He rose to prominence as the leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front ( RPF ), whose military victory over the incumbent government in July 1994 effectively ended the Rwandan genocide.

They joined an organisation called the Rwandan Patriotic Front ( RPF ), a refugee association which had been operating since 1979, first as the Rwandan Refugee Welfare Foundation, then as the Rwandan African National Union ( RANU ), before becoming the RPF in 1987.

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His investigations are based on two oral sources, Abdul Ruzibiza, a former member of the Rwandan Patriotic Front who lives in exile, and Paul Barril, who was in charge of François Mitterrand's wiretap section at the Elysee Palace, and has had an obscure role in Rwanda before 1994.

Its activities were meant to aid the peace process between the Hutu-dominated Rwandese government and the Tutsi-dominated rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front ( RPF ).

In October 1990 the Rwandan Civil War began when the Rwandan Patriotic Front rebel group invaded across Uganda's southern border into northern Rwanda.

* Rwandan Patriotic Front ( RPF )

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Often, the Rwandan great chief was also the army chief.

In addition to Rwandan forces, Laurent Kabila's AFDL ( Alliance of Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Congo ) forces were also supported by Ugandan forces, with whom Kagame had trained in the late 1980s, which then invaded Eastern Zaire from the northeast.

Rwandan Green Party President, Frank Habineza also reported threats.

The Pygmy population was also a target of the Interahamwe during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide.

Cyprien Ntaryamira, the President of Burundi, the Chief of Staff of the Rwandan military, and numerous others also died in the attack.

Kagame and Rwigema joined the NRA aiming to ease conditions for Rwandan refugees persecuted by Obote and also to gain military experience for a putative future invasion of Rwanda.

They spent the next three years working overtly for the Ugandan army, while also covertly building a network of Rwandan refugees within the army's ranks intended as the nucleus for any putative attack on Rwanda.

The Rwandan genocide as well as the recurrent problems experienced by the Sudan can also be related to a lack of ethnic, religious, or racial cohesion within the nation.

In addition to managing gas extraction, KivuWatt will also manage the electrical generation plants and on-sell the electrical power to the Rwandan government under the terms of a long-term Purchase Power Agreement ( PPA ).

He is probably today's most recognizable Rwandan male voice. Today Rwandan Music is led by youth and most of them are doing Hip Hop like Riderman he is know in his beautful Rap and writings where he have done a song like Africa Ndota and many more and others RnB like the lovely The Ben very known for his beautiful voice but also still there is some who are trying to do traditional music like Mani Martin and Rwandan Music is always going high.

She also claimed, that " accepting to receive Kagame in Paris, he sullied the reputation of the French army outrageously accused by Kigali of having taken part in the Rwandan Genocide.

During the Rwandan genocide, some poaching activity was also linked to the general breakdown of law and order and lack of any ramifications.

The book also relates other forms of military assistance the government of France gave the Rwandan government, prior to the genocide:

HRW went on to provide that a former French policeman who had also served as security consultant to Habyarimana, Captain Paul Barril, was hired by the Rwandan Ministry of Defense to conduct a training program for 30 to 60 men, eventually to grow to 120, at Bigogwe military camp in the northwest.

Following an investigation of the plane crash of April 6, 1994 that killed both the Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana and Burundian President Cyprien Ntaryamira and precipitated the genocide, and in which three French crew had also died, the French judge Jean-Louis Bruguière indicted eight associates of Rwandan president Paul Kagame on November 17, 2006.

The court also found Bagosora responsible for the deaths of former Rwandan Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana and 10 Belgian peacekeepers.

He came into office when the previous president, Cyprien Ntaryamira, was killed in a plane crash ( an assassination in which the Rwandan president Juvénal Habyarimana was also killed ).

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The conspicuous Rwandan presence in the capital also rankled many Congolese, who were beginning to see Kabila as a pawn of foreign powers.

Amnesty International claimed as many as 200, 000 Rwandese Hutu refugees were massacred by the Rwandan Defence Forces and ADFL during and after the Rwandan Genocide of 1994.

Following the invasion of the Rwandan capital Kigali by the Tutsi Rwandese Patriotic Front ( RPF ), many Rwandan civilians and members of the Interahamwe fled to neighbouring countries, most notably to what at the time was Zaire, now Democratic Republic of Congo, and Tanzania.

Paul Kagame, a Tutsi officer in exile in Uganda who had co-founded the Rwandese Patriotic Front ( RPF ) in 1986 and was in open conflict with the incumbent Rwandan government, was invited to receive military training at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, home of the Command and General Staff College.

Intended as a negotiation for the sharing of power between the rebels and the Rwandan government, the talks produced an agreement that favored the Rwandese Patriotic Front because of disagreements within the government.

In 1990 he joined the primarily Tutsi Rwandese Patriotic Front ( RPF ) when his brother, a colonel in the Rwandan Armed Forces, was assassinated, possibly on the orders of the government.

Amnesty International claimed as many as 200, 000 Rwandese Hutu refugees were massacred by them and the Rwandan Defence Forces -

The true extent of the abuses is unknown because the AFDL and RPF carefully managed NGO and press access to areas where atrocities were thought to have occurred however Amnesty International claimed as many as 200, 000 Rwandese Hutu refugees were massacred by them and the Rwandan Defence Forces and aligned forces.

This document argues that by struggling for the establishment of a rule of law, justice, democracy, republican values and truth on the Rwandan tragedy, the Rwandese Republic will become more prosperous and peaceful and the goals of true reconciliation and sustainable development and peace will be realized.

Many of the refugees were Hutu ethnics fleeing the predominantly Tutsi Rwandese Patriotic Front ( RPF ), which had gained control of the country at the end of the Rwandan Genocide.

He soon became deeply involved in the Rwandese Patriotic Front ( RPF ) activities, which had been founded to launch a struggle against the then Rwandan government that had denied its citizens the right to return to their homeland.