Rwanda

Main problems and challenges:

The main problems and challenges for the country include poverty, HIV/AIDS pandemic and promoting further democratization and judicial reform. There are over 120,000 genocide suspects in overcrowded prisons where about 12 million Rwanda francs are spent annually for their maintenance.
 

Geography

Area: 26,338sq.km. (10,169sq). Grasslands and small farms extending over rolling hills, with areas of rugged mountains that extend southeast and a chain of volcanoes in the northwest.
Climate: Rwanda has two rainy seasons (February-May and September-December), heavy downpours occur almost daily, alternating with sunny weather. Annual rainfall average 80 centimeters (31 in).  The temperate are mild average daily temperature near Lake Kivu, at an altitude of 4,800feet is 23 degrees Celsius.
 

Crops:

Coffee, tea, pyrethrum, bananas, beans, sorghum, potatoes, livestock.
Commodities for export: Coffee and Tea

History:

Pre-colonial Rwanda was a highly centralized Kingdom presided over by Tutsi kings who hailed from one ruling clan. The king ruled throughout three categories of chiefs: cattle chiefs; land chiefs; and military chiefs. In 1899 Rwanda became a German colony, but this changed after WW1 in 1919 when Rwanda became a mandate territory of the League of Nations under the administration of Belgium. The Germans and the Belgians administered Rwanda through a system of indirect rule.

In 1935 the Belgian colonial administration introduced a discriminatory national identification on the basis of ethnicity. Banyarwanda who possessed ten or mor