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The president of Rwanda is the head of state and head of executive [2] of the Republic of Rwanda. The president is elected every seven years by popular vote, [3] and appoints the prime minister and all other members of Cabinet. [4] A total of four people have served in the office. The incumbent president is Paul Kagame, who took office on 22 ...
Grégoire Kayibanda (1 May 1924 – 15 December 1976) was a Rwandan politician and revolutionary who was the first elected President of Rwanda from 1962 to 1973. An ethnic Hutu, he was a pioneer of the Rwandan Revolution and led Rwanda's struggle for independence from Belgium, replacing the Tutsi monarchy with a republican form of government.
Kayibanda became Rwanda's first elected president, leading a government chosen from the membership of the directly elected unicameral National Assembly of Rwanda. Peaceful negotiation of international problems, social and economic elevation of the masses, and integrated development of Rwanda were the ideals of the Kayibanda regime.
Dominique Mbonyumutwa becomes provisional President of Rwanda. 1962: 1 July: Belgium grants Rwanda independence. [1] 26 October: Grégoire Kayibanda becomes the first elected President of Rwanda. 1963: Following a Tutsi guerilla attack from Burundi, an anti-Tutsi backlash kills thousands. 1973: 5 July: Grégoire Kayibanda is overthrown in a ...
In 2010, Nicolas Sarkozy became the first French president to visit Rwanda since the genocide, admitting for the first time that France made "grave errors of judgment". [311] Kagame reciprocated with an official visit to Paris in 2011. [312]
The RPF's success prompted President Juvenal Habyarimana, a Hutu, to speed up political reforms. ... * In December 1996, Rwanda's first genocide trial opened at the International Criminal Tribunal ...
Dominique Mbonyumutwa (January 1921 – 26 July 1986) was a Rwandan politician who served as the interim first President of Rwanda for a period of nine months in 1961, during a transitional phase between the overthrow of the Rwandan monarchy in the Rwandan Revolution and the country's independence.
Burundi’s president on Friday accused Rwanda of funding and training rebels behind an attack last week on the village of Gatumba, close to Burundi’s border with Congo, that killed at least 20 ...