COUNTRY IN FOCUS

Capital: Kigali

President: Paul Kagame
Prime minister: Édouard Ngirente
Government: Republic, Parliamentary system, Unitary state, Presidential system

The Republic of Rwanda,is a landlocked country in the Great Rift Valley of Central Africa, where the African Great Lakes region and Southeast Africa converge. Located a few degrees south of the Equator, Rwanda is bordered by Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is highly elevated, giving it the soubriquet "land of a thousand hills" with its geography dominated by mountains in the west and savanna to the southeast, with numerous lakes throughout the country.
The Kingdom of Rwanda dominated from the mid-eighteenth century, with the Tutsi kings conquering others militarily, centralising power, and enacting unifying policies. In 1897, Germany colonized Rwanda as part of German East Africa, followed by Belgium, which took control in 1916 during World War I. 
The constitution was adopted following a national referendum in 2003, replacing the transitional constitution which had been in place since 1994.The constitution mandates a multi-party system of government, with politics based on democracy and elections.However, the constitution places conditions on how political parties may operate. Article 54 states that "political organizations are prohibited from basing themselves on race, ethnic group, tribe, clan, region, sex, religion or any other division which may give rise to discrimination".
Rwanda has low corruption levels relative to most other African countries; in 2014, Transparency International ranked Rwanda as  constitution provides for an ombudsman, whose duties include prevention and fighting of corruption.

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