Rwanda is a small, landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley in central East Africa. Rwanda is also the smallest country in East Africa, and it’s even smaller than Haiti.
I don’t know much about Rwanda up until this day, but like me, of you’ve heard of Rwanda, it’s likely because of the horrific Rwandan genocide in 1994. During the Rwandan genocide, up to 1,100,000 people are though to have been killed in a period of 100 days.
Nowadays it seems Rwanda is in a much more positive place, and is one of the success stories of Africa. For example, Rwanda has the world record of the most representation of women in Parliament as 64% of the seats in the Rwandan parliament are occupied by women.
Rwanda also has a reputation for being a clean country and is also known for conservation and protecting the environment and in In 2008, Rwanda made headlines by banning plastic bags. Another initiative that made the news is Rwanda’s mandatory, monthly national community service initiative called Umuganda where all residents work together to put something back into the Rwandan community.
Given everything we’ve seen about Rwanda so far, i’s not so surprising that Rwanda is one of the fastest growing economies in the World. Arguably this calls for a cold Primus to celebrate!
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