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After the Rwandan Genocide, the Tutsi-led government began a major program to improve the country's economy and reduce its dependence on subsistence farming. The failing economy had been a major factor behind the genocide, as was overpopulation and the resulting competition for scarce farmland and other resources.
Following these consultations, and shortly after assuming the presidency, Kagame launched Vision 2020. [3] The major purposes of the programme were to unite the Rwandan people and to transform Rwanda from a highly impoverished into a middle income country. [2] The Vision 2020 programme was mostly successful.
Rwanda's economy is based mostly on subsistence agriculture. Coffee and tea are the major cash crops that it exports. Tourism is a fast-growing sector and is now the country's leading foreign exchange earner. As of the most recent survey in 2019/20, 48.8% of the population is affected by multidimensional poverty and an additional 22.7% ...
Rwandan President Paul Kagame blamed the inaction of the international community for allowing the 1994 genocide to happen as Rwandans on Sunday commemorated 30 years since an estimated 800,000 ...
Today marks the 30th anniversary of the start of the Rwanda genocide on April 7, 1994. A phoenix is rising from the ashes, writes Jonathan M. Hansen.
The civil war severely disrupted Rwanda's formal economy, bringing coffee and tea cultivation to a halt, decimating tourism, diminishing food production, and diverting government spending towards defence and away from other priorities. [259] Rwanda's infrastructure and economy suffered further during the 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. [4] Over a span of around 100 days, members of the Tutsi ethnic group, as well as some moderate Hutu and Twa , were systematically killed by Hutu militias.
The Rwandan government stopped reporting ethnic demographic data after the genocide. [1] According to some estimates, Tutsi men in Gikongoro had only a 25% chance of surviving the genocide. Other estimates have placed the odds even lower, around 10.7%.