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Jeannette Kagame, Paul Kagame's wife. Kagame married Jeannette Nyiramongi, a Tutsi exile living in Nairobi, Kenya, in Uganda on 10 June 1989. [369] Kagame had asked his relatives to suggest a suitable marriage and they recommended Nyiramongi. Kagame travelled to Nairobi and introduced himself, persuading her to visit him in Uganda.
Paul Kagame (born 1957) — 24 March 2000: 22 April 2000: 24 years, 343 days Tutsi: RPF: Makuza Habumuremyi Murekezi Ngirente [10] 2003 2010 2017 2024: 22 April 2000 ...
Paul Kagame became Minister of Defense and vice-president. [43] President Bizimungu served for six years and resigned from government in 2000, after forming his political party, he was arrested in 2002. [44] Sentenced to 15 years in prison, he was released with a pardon from President Kagame in 2007. [45]
* In July 1994 a new government was sworn in with Pasteur Bizimungu, a Hutu, named president and RPF commander Paul Kagame as vice president. Kagame was elected president in April 2000 and remains ...
The victorious RPF assumed control of the country, with Paul Kagame as de facto leader. Kagame served as vice president from 1994 and as president from 2000. The RPF began a programme of rebuilding the infrastructure and economy of the country, bringing genocide perpetrators to trial, and promoting reconciliation between Hutu and Tutsi.
Kagame, who headed the rebel Tutsi force that ended the killing more than three decades ago, sees this "genocidal militia" as an existential threat. This month alone 400,000 people have fled their ...
Rwandan President Paul Kagame said Monday he was concerned by what he saw as a U.S. failure to characterize the 1994 massacres as a genocide against the country's minority Tutsis. Kagame told ...
Kagame strove to portray the new government as inclusive and not Tutsi-dominated. He directed the removal of ethnicity from Rwandan citizens' national identity cards, and the government began a policy of downplaying the distinctions between Hutu, Tutsi, and Twa.