Chez Lando is a hotel and restaurant located in the

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 ...

n capital city,

Kigali Kigali () is the Capital (political), capital and largest city of Rwanda. It is near the nation's geographic centre in a region of rolling hills, with a series of valleys and ridges joined by steep slopes. As a primate city, Kigali is a relativ ...

. The hotel was founded in the 1980s by prominent Rwandan businessman and politician Lando Ndasingwa, and his Canadian wife Hélène, who were both killed in the 1994

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 ...

. Following Ndasingwa's death, the hotel was taken over by his sister Anne-Marie Kantengwa, who was a 2013 student on the IEEW's Peace Through Business program.

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External links

Official website
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