• up Rwanda or Ruanda in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Rwanda or Ruanda is a country in East Africa. Ruanda may also refer to: Ruanda (Mbeya Urban)...
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    Rwanda (redirect from Ruanda)
    started to rule both Rwanda and Burundi as a League of Nations mandate called Ruanda-Urundi and started a period of more direct colonial rule. The Belgians simplified...
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    era, principally the Belgian Congo (modern DR Congo) from 1908 to 1960, Ruanda-Urundi (modern Rwanda and Burundi) from 1922 to 1962, and Lado Enclave (modern...
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    1954) is a Rwandan human rights activist. He worked as the manager of the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali, during a period in which it housed 1,268 Hutu...
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  • kept his brother hidden at the Hôtel des Mille Collines in Kigali. According to Paul Rusesabagina, who managed the hotel, Kajuga was one of the many infiltrators...
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    War I, forming the mandate of Ruanda-Urundi. Kigali remained the seat of colonial administration for Rwanda but Ruanda-Urundi's capital was at Usumbura...
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  • Ganwa family of Burundian Mwami (king) Mwambutsa IV in Belgian-administered Ruanda-Urundi in 1932, Rwagasore was educated in Burundian Catholic schools before...
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  • Pretoria Accord Pygmy Rassemblement Démocratique pour le Rwanda Roméo Dallaire Ruanda-Urundi Rusumo Falls Rwanda Rwanda Nziza Rwandan Civil War Rwandan genocide...
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    production). South African Broadcasting Corporation. "Turismo en Nyanza, Ruanda 2021: Opiniones, consejos e información". "Exploring the King's Palace in...
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    during the Rwandan genocide, and Anne-Marie Kantengwa, who took over Lando's hotel Chez Lando after his death and served in the Parliament of Rwanda from 2003...
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    Minister of the Colonies (Belgium) (category Ruanda-Urundi)
    of the Belgian Congo and Ruanda-Urundi" (Ministre du Congo belge et du Ruanda-Urundi or Minister van Belgisch-Congo en Ruanda-Urundi). On 30 June 1960...
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    easing the embargo imposed on Burundi. In January 2000, she sang at AccorHotels Arena (at the time Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy) with Sting and Cheb...
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  • education centres such as public primary schools of Hayanga, Ikulu, Ivumwe, Ruanda Nzovwe and Veta. For secondary education, Ilomba (public) and Ivumwe high...
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    Kagame was born on 23 October 1957, the youngest of six children, in Tambwe, Ruanda-Urundi, a village located in what is now the Southern Province of Rwanda...
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  • headquartered in Kigali. 1922 - Kigali becomes part of Belgian colonial Ruanda-Urundi. 1959 - Population: 4,273 (estimate). 1962 Kigali becomes capital...
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    and Antarctic Lands, French Togoland, French Cameroons, Belgian Congo, Ruanda-Urundi, Trust Territory of Somalia, Netherlands New Guinea. The list was...
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    First Geneva Convention (category Treaties extended to Ruanda-Urundi)
    Guillaume Henri Dufour. The conference occurred in the Alabama room at Geneva's Hotel de Ville (city hall) on 22 August 1864. The conference adopted the first...
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    havens for Tutsi who were seeking refuge, such as Amahoro Stadium and the Hôtel des Mille Collines. The inaction of the UN in the face of genocide is widely...
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    UN missions. While Rwanda was a Belgian colony administered as a part of Ruanda-Urundi, its security was provided by the Force Publique, the colonial army...
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    actions to his advisers who were in a nearby suite of offices at the Carlton Hotel, he was met with expressions of shock and disbelief. How could he sign a...
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    Melchior Ndadaye was born on 28 March 1953 in the commune of Nyabihanga, Ruanda-Urundi. The son of Pie Ndadaye and Thérèse Bandushubwenge, he was the first...
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    including the "Orts-Milner Agreement" allowing to Belgium the administration of Ruanda-Urundi territories to reward the Belgo-African army ("Force publique") for...
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    Born: Paul Kagame, 4th President of Rwanda; in Tambwe, Gitarama Province, Ruanda-Urundi Died: Clarence Alcott, American college football player, coach and...
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  • 28, 1961: The monarchy in Rwanda, then a part of the Belgian mandate of Ruanda-Urundi, was abolished and replaced with a republican political system. July...
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  • Costa, Pierantonio; Scalettari, Luciano (2004). La lista del console. Ruanda: cento giorni un milione di morti (in Italian). Paoline. ISBN 978-88-315-2641-8...
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    Léopoldville, Karel Theunissen. Lihau served as president of the small Congolese-Ruanda-Urundi students' union in Belgium, Association Générale des Étudiants Congolais...
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    Capital of Culture alongside eight other European cities. The Hôtel Tassel, Hôtel Solvay, Hôtel van Eetvelde and Maison & Atelier Horta are listed as UNESCO...
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    Head of the International Monetary Fund Jean-Paul Harroy, Governor of Ruanda-Urundi Paul Hatry [fr], Belgian politician, former Minister Roberto Lavagna...
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  • Berendrecht Lock constructed. 1994 Laus Polyphoniae festival begins. Switel Hotel fire 1995 – City website launched (Digitale Metropool Antwerpen). 2003 Patrick...
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    in the church and also for a project abroad. Work was well underway on a Ruanda Mission building in Ibuye, Burundi and it was decided to contribute £866...
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