Agathe Uwilingiyimana

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Full Name	Agathe Uwilingiyimana
Occupation	Politician
Date Of Birth	May 23, 1953(1953-05-23)
Age	71
Date Of Death	Apr 7, 1994 (40 age)
Birthplace	Rwanda
Country	Rwanda
Horoscope	Gemini

Agathe Uwilingiyimana Biography

Agathe Uwilingiyimana is one of the most popular and richest Politician who was born on May 23, 1953 in Rwanda, Rwanda. Former Prime Minister of Rwanda was assassinated at the beginning of the Rwandan Genocide. She and her husband sacrificed themselves to save their children.

She served as Prime Minister under President Juvenal Habyarimana.

Agathe Uwilingiyimana (Kinyarwanda: [u.wǐː.ɾiː.ɲɟi.jí.mɑ̂ː.nɑ] ; 23 May 1953 – 7 April 1994), sometimes known as Madame Agathe, was a Rwandan political figure. She served as Prime Minister of Rwanda from 18 July 1993 until her assassination on 7 April 1994, during the opening stages of the Rwandan genocide. She was Rwanda’s first and so far only female prime minister.

After success in public examinations she was educated at Notre Dame des Cîteaux Secondary School, and obtained the certificate to teach humanities in

1973. She continued with graduate studies in mathematics and chemistry, after which she became a schoolteacher in Butare in 1976. By 1983 she was teaching chemistry at the National University of Rwanda in Butare. She received a B.Sc. in 1985, and taught chemistry for four years in Butare academic schools. She received criticism from traditionalists for promoting mathematics and science study amongst female students.

She was born to Hutu farmers in the small village of Nyaruhengeri.

Agathe Uwilingiyimana Net Worth

Agathe Uwilingiyimana is one of the richest Politician from Rwanda. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Agathe Uwilingiyimana 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She taught chemistry at the National University of Rwanda before starting her political career.

She made history by becoming Rwanda’s first female Prime Minister in 1993.

Agathe Uwilingiyimana was born 23 May 1953 in the village of Nyaruhengeri in the southern Rwandan province Butare, 140 km southeast of the Rwandan capital Kigali. She moved with her farming parents to the Belgian Congo to find work, but they moved back to Butare in 1957. She was a member of the Hutu ethnicity that makes up the majority of the Rwandan population.

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The Habyarimana–Uwilingiyimana government had the daunting task of successfully completing the Arusha Accords with the rebel Rwandese Patriotic Front (RPF), the Tutsi-dominated guerilla movement. An agreement between Habyarimana, the five opposition parties (led ostensibly by Uwilingiyimana), and the RPF, was finally reached on 4 August 1993. Under Arusha Accords, Habyarimana’s ruling MRND would take the transitional presidency, and the Prime Minister would be Faustin Twagiramungu from the MDR.

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Agathe Ranked on the list of most popular Politician. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Rwanda. Agathe Uwilingiyimana celebrates birthday on May 23 of every year.

Seeing the stand-off outside her home, Uwilingiyimana and her family took refuge in the Kigali U.N. volunteer compound around 8 am. Eyewitnesses to the inquiry on U.N. actions say that Rwandan soldiers entered the compound at 10 am and searched it for Uwilingiyimana. Fearing for the lives of her children, Uwilingiyimana and her husband emerged. The presidential guard killed them both on the morning of 7 April 1994; Uwilingiyimana had been shot point-blank in the head and her body was found naked with a beer bottle stuffed up her vagina. Her children escaped and eventually took refuge in Switzerland. In his book, Me Against My Brother, Scott Peterson writes that the U.N. troops sent to protect Uwilingiyimana were castrated, gagged with their own genitalia, and then murdered. However, page 44 and 45 of the UNKIBAT-01 Tab 241 of the Prosecution Case File of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, states clearly: “Although the bodies show signs of fighting, some have rifle- but or bayonet injuries, some show signs of having been struck by machetes or bullet wounds, there are NO traces of sadistic mutilations (eyes gouged out, nose or other organs cut off) as was incorrectly described in certain articles”.

What did Agathe Uwilingiyimana do?

Uwilingiyimana is remembered as a pioneer in women’s rights and education in Rwanda , and her efforts to reconcile ethnic differences in the country.

Was Agathe Uwilingiyimana Hutu or Tutsi?

Rwanda genocide of 1994 Prime Minister Agathe Uwilingiyimana, a moderate Hutu , was assassinated the next day, as were 10 Belgian soldiers (part of a United Nations peacekeeping force already in the country) who were guarding her. Her murder was part of a campaign to eliminate moderate Hutu or Tutsi politicians, with…

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Seat| Kigali
Appointer| President of Rwanda
Formation| 28 January 1961
First holder| Grégoire Kayibanda

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