President Paul Kagame of Rwanda

Through his connection to Ntare School, Kagame met his fellow graduate and local Ugandan activist Yoweri Museveni, who would eventually become president of Uganda in 1986.
Using his organizational base in the Ugandan NRA where several thousand other 59ers served, Kagame was one of the leading figures in the 1987 formation of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which was loosely modelled on the NRM.
Kagame is highly critical of the United Nations and its role in the 1994 genocide.
In recent years, Kagame has stated that it is Rwanda's role to play a part in the prevention of Genocide in Africa and elsewhere.
Kagame was in March 2003 awarded the 2003 Global Leadership Award by the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO.
In April 2005, Kagame was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor Laws by the University of the Pacific in the United States.
In September 2005, Kagame was awarded the Andrew Young Medal for Capitalism and Social Progress by Georgia State University in the United States.
In September 2005, Kagame was awarded the African National Achievement Award by the Africa America Institute in the USA.
In April 2006, Kagame was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Oklahoma Christian University in the USA.
In May 2006, Kagame was given the 2006 ICT Africa Award, an award that is designed to recognize and reward organizations and individuals that have demonstrated excellence in promoting the use of ICTs for the overall development of the African continent.
In August 2007, Kagame was given the Hands Off Cain Award for his role in ending the death penalty in his country.
In November 2007, Kagame was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor in Law by the University of Glasgow in Scotland.
In December 2007, Kagame was given the African Gender Award in Dakar, Senegal for his role in promoting gender equality in Rwanda.
President Paul Kagame has been the dominant figure in Rwandan politics since the genocide almost a decade ago.
Together with Fred Rwigyema, a long-standing friend, Mr Kagame was instrumental in establishing the RPF, drawing heavily on Rwandan soldiers who had fought alongside him in the NRA.
Mr Kagame took on the vice-presidency of Rwanda and the defence portfolio, leaving the presidency to Pasteur Bizimungu, a Hutu who had joined the RPF in Uganda after breaking with the regime of Juvenal Habyarimana.
Along with addressing poverty, Paul Kagame has placed security at the top of his agenda.
Mr Kagame was also a firm advocate of Rwanda military engagement in DR Congo - arguing that it was essential in order to protect Rwanda's security from Hutu rebels.
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has been a soldier for most of his adult life.
Mr Kagame was made head of NRA military intelligence in 1986 and was always viewed as a close ally of Mr Museveni, both as a guerrilla fighter and in the Ugandan military afterwards.
Together with Fred Rwigyema, a longstanding friend, Kagame was instrumental in establishing the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), drawing heavily on Rwandan soldiers who had fought alongside him in the NRA.
When the RPF first invaded Rwanda from Uganda in October 1990, Paul Kagame was in the United States on a military training programme.
On taking power in July 1994, Mr Kagame took on the vice-presidency of Rwanda and the defence portfolio, leaving the presidency to Pasteur Bizimungu, a Hutu who had joined the RPF in Uganda after breaking with the regime of Juvenal Habyarimana.
Paul Kagame has long been viewed as the most powerful man in Rwanda.
Paul Kagame is also a firm advocate of Rwanda's continuing military engagement in the Democratic Republic of Congo, arguing that vital security issues are at stake and nobody but Rwandans will protect his country's security.
AP - Rwandan President Paul Kagame said Tuesday his country's sovereignty was violated when an aide visiting Germany was arrested in connection.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has denied allegations that his country was contributing to chaos in neighboring Democratic Republic of Congo.
Born in Gitarama Prefecture, Rwanda, in October 1957, Kagame was the youngest of a Tutsi family of four sisters and one other brother.
The chaos of displacement also meant that Kagame was separated from his siblings for most of his early life as two of his sisters left the country to eventually settle in Italy, while his brother died in a car accident.
Even though the 1973 military coup detat by Juvenal Habyarimana had led to a period of relative calm in Rwandas ethnic tension, Kagame knew that his trips were dangerous in the context of the previous massacres and oppression of Tutsi, especially considering his parental connections to the exiled Tutsi monarchy.
Uganda and the National Resistance MovementThrough his connection to Ntare School, Kagame met his fellow graduate and local Ugandan activist Yoweri Museveni, who would eventually become president of Uganda in 1986.
Kagame was among this tiny band of 27 guerrillas along with one other Rwandan, Fred Rwigyema, who was an old acquaintance from refugee camps.
For a number of years Kagame was an intelligence officer in the NRA and gathered information in rural areas--a pivotal role in a guerrilla war with a relatively small number of troops.
Upon seizure of power in 1986, Kagame and Rwigyema held senior positions in the NRA and in 1987 Rwigyema became deputy minister of defence in Kampala, while Kagame was appointed acting chief of military intelligence to the NRA.
The Rwandan Patriotic Front, Genocide and Its AftermathUsing his organizational base in the Ugandan NRA where several thousand other "59ers" served, Kagame was one of the leading figures in the 1987 formation of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), which was loosely modelled on the NRM.
However, Kagame was faced with a trying moral dilemma: should he try to save as many lives as possible and take the risk of over-extending his forces and face defeat or maintain a tactically sound campaign that would ensure victory.
Despite this Kagame has battled against the odds and managed to lead a period of relative peace, stability and reconstruction in post-genocide Rwanda.
After Bizimungu resigned in 2000, Kagame was named president.
Kagame was born to a Tutsi family in Ruhango, Rwanda in October 1957 to Deogratius and Asteria Rutagambwa.
This same year, Kagame was instrumental in forming, along with his close friend Fred Rwigema, the Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF), which was composed mainly of expatriate Rwandan Tutsi soldiers that had also fought with the NRA; the RPF was also based in Uganda.
In October 1990, while Kagame was participating in a military training program at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, the RPF invaded Rwanda in the struggle for the liberation of Rwanda's minority ethnic group Tutsi.
In a 2007 interview with the BBC, Mr Kagame said he would co-operate with an impartial inquiry.
Kagame was part of the cabinet of President Pasteur Bizimungu, who came to power in the aftermath of the genocide.
Kagame was made Vice President of Rwanda and Defense Minister.
Bizimungu was also a member of the RPF, and as its military leader, Kagame was viewed as the power behind the throne, and eventually became President when Bizimungu was deposed in March 2000.
In 1990, while Kagame was studying at the US.
Kagame was one of several African leaders operating military forces in Congo during that countrys civil wardubbed Africas first world war for this reasonand he was the subject of much international criticism for Rwandas involvement.
Today, Kagame is president of Rwanda, and he insists on reconciliation between the warring groups.
Watch as Kagame discusses Rwanda's past and future In the late 1950s and early '60s, Kagame's family and other Tutsis were under siege as Hutu gangs went from village to village, pillaging and killing.
In 1990, Kagame was attending a training course at Fort Leavenworth in the US.
those two precarious states have known since they both became independent in 1962.
As a member of Uganda's military, Kagame was able to apply for a course in tactics given by the US.
the very month he and a close comrade-in-arms, Fred Rwigyema, had planned to invade Rwanda.
30,000 regulars, all trained by the French.
President Paul Kagame is exploiting, wrongfully, the 1994 genocide that occurred in Rwanda for political reasons and outright greed.
In fact, since President Kagame has been in power in Rwanda, he has never proven to the world that he can do anything in Rwanda without exploiting illegally the minerals in the Congo.
on April 6, 1994, President Paul Kagame was responsible for gunning down the plane transporting presidents Juvenal Habyarimana of Rwanda and Cyprien Ntaryamira of Burundi, causing the sudden death of two prominent Hutu's leaders and most of their key entourages.
President Paul Kagame has raised the issue of creating a buffer zone in eastern Congo countless times.
According to AFP, "before his men could return home, he said, Rwandan President Paul Kagame had to leave office and what he called an 'equitable' justice system had to be put.
rebel force led by General Major Paul Kagame took power in July that same year.
TIMES KIGALI, Rwanda - President Paul Kagame has clinched a decisive victory at the.
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FUTURE HOLDS HOPE AND HEALING FOR RWANDA, KAGAME SAYS AT DU.
Kagame is getting a boost in that direction with.
Paul Mugabe's testimony regarding the shooting down of Habyarimana's plane ordered by Kagame is corroborated by intelligence documents and information presented to the French parliamentary inquiry.
Major General Paul Kagame was an instrument of Washington.
Major General Paul Kagame had been head of military intelligence in the Ugandan Armed Forces; he had been trained at the US.
According to the testimony of Paul Mugabe, a former member of the RPF High Command Unit, Major General Paul Kagame had personally ordered the shooting down of President Habyarimana's plane with a view to taking control of the country.
Habyarimana's aircraft was the catalyst of an unprecedented drama in Rwandan history, and Major-General Paul Kagame took that decision with all awareness.
We will all remember that the genocide occurred during three months, even though Kagame has said that he was capable of stopping it the first week after the aircraft crash.
Paul Kagame was born in October 1957 in Ruhango, Southern Province, to Deogratius and Asteria Rutagambwa.
Paul Kagame was among the first 27 men who, together with Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, launched a five-year liberation war in Uganda in 1980.
On 17 April 2000, Paul Kagame was unanimously elected President of the Republic of Rwanda by the Transitional National Assembly.
President Kagame was awarded the 2003 Global Leadership Award by the Young Presidents Organisation (YPO), in recognition of his role in uniting and reconciling Rwandans and in promoting peaceful solutions to the conflicts in the region.
In July 2003, President Kagame was elected 1st Vice President of the African Union during the African Union Heads of State and Government Summit held in Maputo, Mozambique.
In April 2005, President Kagame was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor Laws by the University of the Pacific in the USA.
In September 2005, President Kagame was awarded the Andrew Young Medal for Capitalism and Social Progress by Georgia State University in the USA; and in the same month received the African National Achievement Award by the Africa America Institute in the USA.
In April 2006, President Kagame was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Oklahoma Christian University in the USA.
President Kagame was presented the ICT Africa Award in 2006 and in 2007 - an award which recognizes organizations and individuals that have demonstrated excellence in promoting the use of ICTs for the overall development of the African continent.
President Kagame was the recipient of the 2007 African Gender Award presented by Femmes Africa Solidarit in recognition of outstanding achievement in furthering gender mainstreaming in the economic and political spheres, as well as addressing social and cultural barriers that impede the involvement and advancement of women in national affairs.
In August 2007, President Kagame received The Abolitionist of the Year 2007 Award after Rwanda abolished the death penalty.
President Kagame has been married to Jeannette Nyiramongi since 1989.
President Kagame is a keen tennis player and football fan.
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Kagame was born into a Tutsi family that fled (1960) ethnic violence in Rwanda.
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Paul Kagame is the president of Rwanda.
A French investigation into the assassination of Juvenal Habyarimana, who was president of Rwanda from 1973 to 1994, concluded that Kagame was responsible for the surface-to-air missile attack that brought down Habyarimana's plane.
Kagame has agreed to cooperate with addition non-partial inquiries.
Rwanda held an election on Monday but with hardly any opposition candidates standing, President Paul Kagame is expected to tighten his grip.
Speaking about Rwanda, President Kagame said that today it is a country at peace, actively seeking greater prosperity in an increasingly peaceful region.
History tells US, Kagame has been driven by an undesirable sense of his destiny.
I wondered what Kagame knew about ICTs.
In five minutes Kagame was eloquently answering my questions.
Kagame has been largely credited by the world community for ending the ethnic violence in his country and steering it towards a path of development and prosperity.
For most of his adult life, President Kagame has been a soldier.
Kagame has produced economic growth rates of over 5 percent a year for Rwanda.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame has sued a Paris-based African Journalist-author Charles Onana in a French High Court for defamation following his publication of a book entitled, Les Secrets Du Gnocide Rwandais- Enqute Sur Les Mystres D'UN Prsident - (The Secrets of the Rwanda Genocide- Investigation on the Mysteries of a President), which points an accusing finger at the Rwandan leader as the principle suspect Number One in the Plane Crash which led to the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame says it is about time Rwandans think about coming up with their own solutions for resolving the country's problems instead of depending on foreign aid.
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President Paul Kagame is the head of state for Rwanda.
On December 18, 2008, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame said his country should start thinking differently on the aid they get from developed countries.
Rwandan President Paul Kagame met with visiting Chinese Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi here Wednesday on improving bilateral ties.