2007 in Rwanda

Incumbents

• President: Paul Kagame
• Prime Minister: Bernard Makuza

  Events

June

• June 18 - Rwanda and Burundi join the East African Community in a meeting in Kampala, Uganda.

  July

• July 21 - Two Rwandan men wanted for their role in the 1994 genocide are arrested in France.
• July 27 - Rwanda abolishes capital punishment.

  August

• August 15 - Charles Murigande, the foreign minister of Rwanda, criticizes the Democratic Republic of Congo for stopping military operations against the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda.

  November

• November 16 - The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda sentences Juvénal Rugambarara, the former mayor of Bicumbi, to 11 years in jail for crimes he committed during the Rwandan Genocide.