Ruanda

Republic of Rwanda is a Central African country landlocked sea. Bordered by Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo and Tanzania. It is a small country located in the Great Lakes region of Africa, known as the "Mists of Africa" ​​also for its wildlife, mainly for its mountain gorillas, for its typical towns and national parks and natural areas that offers its mountainous landscape. Itsfertile and hilly terrain that gives the title of "Land of a thousand hills" must support the densest populations of Africa. FRANCO
The dependence on subsistence agriculture, high population density and rising, declining soil fertility and uncertain climate make Rwanda a country where chronic malnutrition is widespread and endemic poverty. It is remembered today by the bloody wars that recentlystruck particularly by the 1994 genocide, in which over a million deaths of people. GASTON
History
In the late nineteenth century, the Germans conquered the country. After World War I the League of Nations handed over the Belgian territory. JEREMIAS
INGUANZOOO King, who had ruled for nearly three decades, died in 1959 and Tutsi came to power. This contributed to a series of rebellions of Hutuswho demanded equal rights, in which tens of thousands of Tutsis were killed. In 1961, with the support of the Belgian colonists, the Hutu majority took the government, declaring Rwanda republic. JEREMIAS
Rwanda's independence was internationally recognized the first of July 1962, when Rwanda and neighboring Burundi formally achieved independence. JUAN CRUZ
More than half of Rwanda's Tutsis fledthe country between 1959 and 1964. General Habyarimana, an ethnic Hutu, seized power in a coup in 1973 in the midst of another period of ethnic conflict. Habyarimana was able to win in the Civil War and remained president until 1988, in 1978 promulgated a new constitution. JUAN CRUZ
In October 1990, Rwandan exiles opposed to the Habyarimana regime, organized in the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF)and its military wing the Rwandan Patriotic Army invaded the country with support from Uganda, initiating a civil war to overthrow the regime. Habyarimana was flexible and initiated a series of political reforms that led to the drafting of a new constitution in 1991. AGUSTIN
But since 1991 the Habyarimana regime had increased repression of the population in a low intensity war to end Tutsiopposition, using racism as an axis, and instigating and abetting the massive massacres poblaciones. Los these killings were perpetrated by groups paramilitaries. AGUSTIN
Through the radio station "Des Mille Collines", a private station, was spreading with impunity racist and genocidal propaganda against the Tutsi. The radio in Rwanda has a central role in the communication, to the poor development ofnewspapers and the low penetration of television. JUAN CRUZ
In April 1992 he was part of a multiparty transitional cabinet to govern the country. The measures taken led to the signing of a peace agreement between the government of Habyarimana and the RPF rebels in Arusha (Tanzania), in August 1993. GASTON
In 1994, he began the Rwandan Genocide which can be considered the bloodiest in the historyin proportion to its duration. In just 100 days there were more than 800,000 murders. AGUSTIN
After the military victory of July 1994, the Rwandan Patriotic Front organized a coalition based on the Arusha Accords. Political organizations were banned until 2003. FRANCO
Rwanda is divided into 5 provinces, which since January 1, 2006 replacing the previous 12: Northern Province, south, east, westand Kigali. FRANCO
Rwanda has a temperate climate. Throughout the country the temperature varies slightly, in the west and the north dominated by mountains, the climate is colder than in the east that is lower altitudes. Rwanda is considered the world capital of thunderstorms due to the intensity with which they occur during the two rainy seasons. JEREMIAS

The transport system in Rwanda is...