- Officially Rwandan Republic, country of central Africa situated in the heart of the region of the African Great Lakes, lined in the North by Uganda, in the East by Tanzania, in the South by Burundi and on the West by the democratic Republic of Congo and the lake Kivu. The capital, Kigali, is in the centre of the country. Rwanda, which covers a surface of 26 338 km2, is one of the smallest States of the continent, but the density of population is one of the strongest. It is one of the causes of the human drama that lived " Country in thousand hills " Since 1994, marked by the massacre of several hundred thousand Tutsis and moderate Hutus.
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