Paul Kagame
President of Rwanda since 2000 · Rwanda · On the map · Politicians · Born 1957 · age 69
Paul Kagame is a Rwandan politician and former military officer who has been the president of Rwanda since 2000. He is considered to be Rwanda's de facto leader since 1994, from 1994 till 2000 while Vice President and Minister of Defence under President Pasteur Bizimungu.
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Kagame served under Yoweri Museveni (pictured) in the Ugandan Bush War.
The Virunga Mountains, Kagame's RPF base from 1990 to 1991
Vice President Kagame with United States Secretary of Defense William J. Perry, July 1994
A refugee camp in Zaire, 1994
Belligerents of the Second Congo War
Kagame in 2010
Kagame with Russian President Vladimir Putin in June 2018Awards
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He was previously a commander of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel armed force which invaded Rwanda in 1990. The RPF was one of the main belligerents of the Rwandan Civil War and was the armed force which ended the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
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