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Ndora
Ndora is a village and commune/sector in Southern Province, south-western Rwanda, located roughly 10 kilometres east of the city of Butare. It is a farming community inhabited mainly by Hutu people. Pauline Nyiramasuhuko was born in Ndora in 1946. Callixte Kalimanzira, head of the Ministry of Interior and Communal Development, met in Ndora on June 7, 1994 and warned the people that the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) were using small children who should also become targets. There is said to be an iron-smelting furnace in Ndora. A number of Hutu women in the village were widowed during the Rwandan genocide The Rwandan genocide, also known as the genocide against the Tutsi, occurred from 7 April to 19 July 1994 during the Rwandan Civil War. Over a span of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Gre .... References Populated places in Rwanda {{Rwanda-geo-stub ...
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Gisagara District
Gisagara is a district (''akarere'') in Southern Province, Rwanda. Its headquarters is Ndora. Geography The district lies just to the East of Butare city, along the border with Burundi. Sectors Gisagara district is divided into 13 sectors (''imirenge''): Gikonko, Gishubi, Kansi, Kibilizi, Kigembe, Mamba, Muganza, Mugombwa, Mukindo, Musha, Ndora, Nyanza and Save. Mugombwa refugee camp The Mugombwa refugee camp A refugee camp is a temporary Human settlement, settlement built to receive refugees and people in refugee-like situations. Refugee camps usually accommodate displaced people who have fled their home country, but camps are also made for in ... is home to over 7300 Congolese refugees. A Turi Kumwe Centre, housing "a Police post as well as migration and camp management offices" was opened in the camp in 2014. References * Inzego.doc— Province, District and Sector information from ''MINALOC'', the Rwanda ministry of local government. ...
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Provinces Of Rwanda
The provinces of Rwanda (Kinyarwanda: ''intara'') are divided into districts (''akarere'') and municipalities (''umujyi''). Prior to January 1, 2006, Rwanda was composed of 12 provinces. The Rwandan government decided to establish new provinces in an attempt to address issues that arose from the genocide against the Tutsis. The new provinces were to be "ethnically-diverse administrative areas". Until 2002, the provinces were called prefectures (''perefegitura''). Provinces As of January 1, 2006 the five provinces of Rwanda are: Provincial districts and sectors Eastern Province Northern Province Western Province Southern Province Kigali Former provinces Prior to 2006 the provinces were: * Butare Province * Byumba Province * Cyangugu Province * Gikongoro Province * Gisenyi Province * Gitarama Province * Kibungo Province * Kibuye Province *Kigali City (Established as a province in 1990) * Kigali-Rural Province (Kigali Ngali) * Ruhengeri Province * Umutara Pro ...
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Pauline Nyiramasuhuko
Pauline Nyiramasuhuko (born 1 April 1946) is a Rwandan politician who was the Minister for Family Welfare and the Advancement of Women. She was convicted of having incited troops and militia to carry out rape during the Rwandan genocide of 1994. She was tried for genocide and incitement to rape as part of the "Butare Group" at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR) in Arusha, Tanzania. In June 2011, she was convicted of seven charges and sentenced to life imprisonment. Nyiramasuhuko is the first woman to be convicted of genocide by the ICTR, and the first woman to be convicted of genocidal rape. Female mass murderers Early life and career Pauline Nyiramasuhuko was born in the small farming community of Ndora, in the province of Butare, to a poor Hutu family. She attended high school at the Ecole sociale de Karubanda. There, she became friends with Agathe Habyarimana, the future wife of Juvénal Habyarimana, who became President of Rwanda in 1973. Nyiramas ...
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Sectors Of Rwanda
Sectors (Kinyarwanda: ''Imirenge'', sing. ''umurenge'', French: ''Secteurs'') are the third level administrative subdivision in Rwanda. Organization The Provinces of Rwanda are subdivided into 30 district A district is a type of administrative division that in some countries is managed by the local government. Across the world, areas known as "districts" vary greatly in size, spanning regions or county, counties, several municipality, municip ...s (Rwanda: ''uturere'', sing. ''akarere''). Each district is in turn divided into sectors. There are 416 Sectors. History This entire administrative structure is undergoing a process of decentralisation – devolving greater authority to local governments and municipalities – following an administrative reorganisation begun in 2002.Rwanda Territorial Reform
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List Of Sovereign States
The following is a list providing an overview of sovereign states around the world with information on their status and recognition of their sovereignty. The 205 listed states can be divided into three categories based on membership within the United Nations System: 193 member states of the United Nations, UN member states, two United Nations General Assembly observers#Current non-member observers, UN General Assembly non-member observer states, and ten other states. The ''sovereignty dispute'' column indicates states having undisputed sovereignty (188 states, of which there are 187 UN member states and one UN General Assembly non-member observer state), states having disputed sovereignty (15 states, of which there are six UN member states, one UN General Assembly non-member observer state, and eight de facto states), and states having a political status of the Cook Islands and Niue, special political status (two states, both in associated state, free association with New ...
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Southern Province, Rwanda
Southern Province (; ; ) is one of Rwanda's five provinces. It was created in early January 2006 as part of a government decentralization program that re-organized the country's local government structures. Southern Province comprises the former provinces of Gikongoro, Gitarama, and Butare, and is divided into the districts of Huye, Ruhango, Nyamagabe, Gisagara, Muhanga Muhanga (former Gitarama, renamed in 2006) is a List of cities in Rwanda, city in Rwanda, in the Muhanga District, in Southern Province, Rwanda, Southern Province. The city is situated above sea level. Though officially part of the Southern Pr ..., Kamonyi, Nyanza, and Nyaruguru. The capital city of Southern Province is Nyanza. Notes and references External linksSouthern Province official website {{Coord, 2, 37, 19, S, 29, 36, 29, E, type:adm1st_region:RW_source:nlwiki, display=title Provinces of Rwanda States and territories established in 2006 ...
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Districts Of Rwanda
The five Provinces of Rwanda, provinces of Rwanda are divided into 30 districts (Kinyarwanda: ''uturere'', sing. ''akarere''). Each district is in turn divided into Sectors of Rwanda, sectors (Kinyarwanda: ''imirenge'', sing. ''umurenge''), which are in turn divided into ''cells'' (Kinyarwanda: ''utugali'', sing. ''akagali''), which are in turn divided into Imidugudu, ''villages'' (Kinyarwanda: ''imidugudu'', sing. ''umudugudu''). Prior to 2002, Rwanda was composed of prefectures, subprefectures (which were sometimes called "districts") and 154 communes (Kinyarwanda: ''imijyi'', sing. ''umujyi''). In 2002, communes were replaced by two kinds of divisions called districts and municipalities (Kinyarwanda: ''akarere'' and ''umujyi''). In 2006, the number of districts was reduced from 106 to 30. The districts are listed below, by province. Current list of districts by province Eastern Province # Bugesera District, Bugesera # Gatsibo District, Gatsibo # Kayonza District, Kayon ...
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Central Africa Time
Central Africa Time or CAT, is a time zone used in north central, east central and southern Africa. Central Africa Time is two hours ahead of Coordinated Universal Time ( UTC+02:00), which is the same as the adjacent South Africa Standard Time, Egypt Standard Time, Eastern European Time, Kaliningrad Time and Central European Summer Time. As this time zone is in the equatorial and tropical regions, there is little change in day length throughout the year and so daylight saving time is not observed. Central Africa Time is observed by the following countries: * * * (eastern provinces) * * * * * * * * The following countries in Africa also use an offset of UTC+02:00 all-year round: * (observes South African Standard Time) * (observes South African Standard Time) * (observes Eastern European Time) * (observes South African Standard Time) See also * Egypt Standard Time, an equivalent (except during daylight savings) time zone covering Egypt, also at UTC+02:00 * Kaliningrad T ...
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Rwanda
Rwanda, officially the Republic of Rwanda, is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of East Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. With a comparatively high elevation, Rwanda has been given the sobriquet "land of a thousand hills" (), with its geography dominated by mountains in the west and savanna to the southeast, with numerous lakes throughout the country. The climate is temperate to subtropical, with two rainy seasons and two dry seasons each year. It is the most densely populated mainland African country; among countries larger than 10,000 km2, it is the third-most densely populated country in the world. Its Capital city, capital and largest city is Kigali. Hunter-gatherers settled the territory in the Stone Age, Stone and Iron Ages, followed later by Bantu peoples. The population coalesce ...
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Butare
Butare (), also known as Huye and formerly known as Astrida, is a city with a population of 62,823 (2022 census) in the Southern Province of Rwanda and the capital of Huye district. It is the seventh largest town in Rwanda by population. History The Belgian colonial rulers established it in the 1920s and named the city ''Astrida'', in honour of Queen Astrid of the Belgians. The government of Rwanda changed the name of the city when it gained independence in 1962. Climate Education The University of Rwanda Butare campus was founded in 2013. Before that, the Butare campus went by the name of National University of Rwanda subsequent its foundation in 1963. Due to the large number of university students and student-centered activities in the city, Butare is often regarded as a university city. It also held the Nyakibanda Seminary and the Rwandan National Institute of Scientific Research. The city of Butare has long been regarded as the intellectual capital of the country, wh ...
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Hutu People
The Hutu (), also known as the Abahutu, are a Bantu peoples, Bantu ethnic group native to the African Great Lakes region. They mainly live in Rwanda, Burundi, and Uganda where they form one of the principal ethnic groups alongside the Tutsi and the Great Lakes Twa. Demographics The Hutu is the largest of the three main population divisions in Burundi and Rwanda. Prior to 2017, the CIA World Factbook stated that 84% of Rwandans and 85% of Burundians are Hutu, with Tutsi people, Tutsis being the second largest ethnic group at 15% and 14% of residents of Rwanda and Burundi, respectively. However, these figures were omitted in 2017 and no new figures have been published since then. The Great Lakes Twa, Twa pygmy, pygmies, the smallest of the two countries' principal populations, share language and culture with the Hutu and Tutsi. They are distinguished by a considerably shorter stature. Etymology The idea that Hutu is etymologically derived from a word that signifies s ...
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Callixte Kalimanzira
Callixte Kalimanzira (1953 – October 1, 2015) was the interior minister of the interim government of Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. Kalimanzira was born in 1953 in Muganza Commune, Butare Prefecture. Kalimanzira was indicted in 2005 by the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda for his actions during the genocide on three counts: genocide, complicity in genocide and direct and public incitement to commit genocide; he pleaded not guilty. On June 22, 2009, Kalimanzira was sentenced to 30 years in prison for two counts of genocide and direct and public incitement to commit genocide. The sentence was reduced on appeal to 25 years imprisonment in October 2010. Kalimanzira died on October 1, 2015, while serving his sentence in Benin Benin, officially the Republic of Benin, is a country in West Africa. It was formerly known as Dahomey. It is bordered by Togo to the west, Nigeria to the east, Burkina Faso to the north-west, and Niger to the north-east. The majority of its ...
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