Southern Province, Rwanda · Africa
Gikongoro sits on the route: 25 minutes from Nyanza, 51km from Karongi (Kibuye), Lake Kivu.
Gikongoro is in Southern Province, Rwanda, with about 21,000 people. The nearest town is Nyanza, about 23 km away.
Gikongoro is a city in Nyamagabe district, Southern Province, Rwanda.
It was previously part of Gikongoro Province, which has been disestablished. Gikongoro province was founded by the newly independent Rwandan state shortly after it gained freedom from Belgium in 1962. It was designed to undermine control of theRead more
Tutsi who had a stronghold in nearby Nyanza. Before the genocide in 1993, Gikongo city had a population of under 10,000. Human Rights Watch has described Gikongoro town and province at the time of the genocide as "largely incoherent." Local political leader Emmanuel Gapyisi was assassinated in 1993 and minister and PSD head Frederic Nzamurambaho was killed at the start of the genocide. Once the genocide began, the Tutsi population of Gikongoro was wiped out quickly compared to other towns.
The city has been growing in recent years, with a number of modern buildings constructed. The city is now called Nyamagabe. It is the gateway to Nyungwe Forest, a large area of montane rain forest, home to many species of monkeys and chimpanzees.
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Within an hour or so of Gikongoro: Karongi (Kibuye), Lake Kivu (51 km).
Gikongoro is in Southern Province, Rwanda, about 23 km from Nyanza.
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A town on a green peninsula of Lake Kivu, the base for the lakeside stretch of the Congo Nile Trail. The road north to Gisenyi twists through steep tea and banana terraces above the water.
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