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Rwandese Republic
National name: Repubulika y'u Rwanda
President: Paul Kagame (2000)
Prime Minister: Bernard Makuza (2000)
Area: 10,169 sq mi (26,338 sq km)
Note: We give
the information above in the Christian Personals Primer
so that you will have a little background on the country before
you contact a perspective mate, just in case you don't know the
basics. Perhaps this info will give you something to talk about
Population (2004 est.): 7,954,013 (growth rate: 1.8%);
birth rate: 40.0/1000; infant mortality rate: 101.7/1000; life
expectancy: 39.2; density per sq mi: 782
Capital and largest city (2003 est.): Kigali,
298,100
Monetary unit: Rwanda franc
Languages: Kinyarwanda, French, and English
(all official); Kiswahili in commercial centers
Ethnicity/race: Hutu 84%, Tutsi 15%, Twa (Pygmoid)
1%
Religions: Roman Catholic 56.5%, Protestant
26%, Adventist 11.1%, Islam 4.6%, indigenous beliefs 0.1%, none
1.7% (2001)
Literacy rate: 70% (2003 est.)
Communications: Telephones: main lines in use: 600,000;
note: 90% in Kigali (2002); mobile cellular: 81,000 (2001);
note: Rwanda has mobile cellular service between Kigali and
several prefecture capitals (2002). Radio broadcast stations:
AM 0, FM 3 (two main FM programs are broadcast through a system
of repeaters and the third FM program is a 24 hour BBC program),
shortwave 1 (2002). Radios: 601,000 (1997). Television
broadcast stations: 2 (1997). Televisions: n.a.;
probably less than 1,000 (1997). Internet Service Providers
(ISPs): 2 (2002). Internet users: 20,000 (2002). |