Agathe Uwilingiyimana

Agathe Uwilingiyimana (1953 - 7 April, 1994) was a Rwandan political figure. She served as Prime Minister of Rwanda from 18 July 1993 to her death on April 7, 1994. Her term was ended after less than a year when she was assassinated during the opening stages of the Rwandan Genocide.

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Agathe Uwilingiyimana, a Hutu, was born in 1953 in the village of Nyaruhengeri, some 140 km southeast of Kigali, Rwanda's capital city, to farming parents. Shortly after she was born the family emigrated from the border region of Butare to work in the Belgian Congo. Her father moved the family back to Butare when Uwilingiyimana was four. After success in public examinations she was educated at Notre Dame des Citeaux High School, and obtained the certificate to teach humanities at twenty.

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