Twagiramungu faustin biography sample pdf

Former Prime Minister Twagiramungu is dead.

Faustin Twagiramungu (14 August – 2 December ) was a Rwandan politician.

Former Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu died this Saturday, December 2, in Brussels, Belgium, where he lived in self-imposed exile, at the age of He was the first post Genocide against the Tutsi Prime Minister and head of government business, serving from to when he resigned from the position and joined opposition politics before exiling himself in Belgium.

Twagiramungu joined active politics in , as the chairman of a new political party at the time, the Republican Democratic Movement MDR , an offspring of what used to be MDR-Parmehutu. A crafty politician with his own ambitions, Twagiramungu eyed becoming a Prime Minister in the so-called multiparty government set up in April , but instead fellow MDR member, Dismas Nsengiyaremye, became the Prime Minister.

In July , Twagiramungu engineered a split in MDR, with two factions emerging, one headed by Nsengiyaremye and the other by Twagiramungu.

Faustin Twagiramungu (14 August – 2 December ) was a Rwandan politician.

The post had to be decided prior to the signing of the Arusha Accords. He would later align himself with RPF Inkotanyi, as he continued his opposition of the then government. A controversial figure in government, Twagiramungu resigned on August 28, and later fled the country the same year. In March , Twagiramungu joined forces with former interior minister Seth Sendashonga to set up an exiled opposition party known as the Democratic Forces for Resistance FRD , which was officially launched in April On 10 December , Twagiramungu announced that he would be a candidate in the Rwandan presidential election of , running against President Kagame.

Twagiramungu returned to Belgium in self-imposed exile again. In Europe, Twagiramungu continued in opposition politics, becoming more popular for his comical comments in talk shows and on social media than his political exploits. His comments that bordered on revising history and denying the Genocide against the Tutsi made him more unpopular in his later years.

By the time of his passing, Twagiramungu had become more and more invisible from the public, with many suspecting that he had been unwell for a while. He later joined active politics. About us Contact us Advertise.