Kigali — Over the last ten years, the Great Lakes region has been the seat of tensions and conflicts which have kept the entire African continent on its toes.
It has been the theatre of one of the world's bloodiest conflicts since the end of the World War II.The Great Lakes crisis started at the beginning of the 1990 decade with the civil war in Burundi (October 1993) and the Rwandan Genocide (April-July 1994). These conflicts were fuelled by internal political and ethnic tensions in the various regions of these countries.
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