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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 ...
For a list of heads of state taking dates of independence into account, see List of heads of state by diplomatic precedence. Acting presidents are included in this list, but if a leader has non-consecutive terms, only the current period of service is listed. States where head of state differs from head of government are mainly parliamentary ...
The current President of Rwanda is Paul Kagame, born in 1957. He is the 6th President of Rwanda [17] and was elected in 2003. In 2007, the former president, Pasteur Bizimungu, was released from prison on a presidential pardon. Kagame was reelected in 2010, receiving 93.1 percent of the votes cast. [18]
He was considered Rwanda's de facto leader when he was Vice President and Minister of Defence under President Pasteur Bizimungu from 1994 to 2000 after which the vice-presidential post was abolished. Born to a Tutsi family in southern Rwanda that fled to Uganda when he was two years old, Kagame spent the rest of his childhood there during the ...
The list includes the names of recently elected or appointed heads of state and government who will take office on an appointed date, as presidents-elect and prime ministers–designate, and those leading a government-in-exile if internationally recognised.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has told CNN he doesn’t know if his country’s troops are in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), where fighting between the M23 armed group and ...
The inauguration of Paul Kagame as the president of Rwanda took place on August 11, 2024, at Amahoro National Stadium in Kigali, Rwanda. This marked the beginning of Kagame's new term of a five-year term following his overwhelming victory in the 2024 presidential election [1] where he received 99.18% of the vote. The ceremony was attended by ...
Pages in category "Presidents of Rwanda" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...