• Gustav Adolf von Götzen, a German explorer and Governor of German East Africa, was the first European to set foot in Rwanda?

Facts on topics related to German East Africa

German South-West Africa

• the diamond mine in Pomona, German South-West Africa, was the richest of its time, generating over a million carats between 1912 and 1914?

Rwanda

• charitable initiatives championed by current First Spouses of the United States have included blankets for the homeless and development assistance in Rwanda?
• the author of the "'Gersony Report", the controversial conclusion by UN contractors that the new government in post-genocide Rwanda had carried out systematic killings of civilians, was instructed never to discuss his findings?
• Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana, and Cyprien Ntaryamira, the Hutu president of Burundi were assassinated by two surface-to-air missiles?
• Rwandan film-maker Eric Kabera was inspired to start a career in film after losing 32 family members in the Rwandan Genocide?
• Anne Aghion won an Emmy Award in 2005 for her documentary film In Rwanda We Say…The Family That Does Not Speak Dies, which examined the situation in post-genocide Rwanda?
• Froduald Karamira, sentenced to death for his role in the Rwandan Genocide in 1994, was one of the last individuals executed before capital punishment was abolished in the country?
• Gustav Adolf von Götzen, a German explorer and Governor of German East Africa, was the first European to set foot in Rwanda?
• Jean Kambanda, prime minister of Rwanda during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide, is the first and only head of government to plead guilty to genocide?
• Jeannette Kagame, the current First Lady of Rwanda, works to help victims of the Rwandan Genocide and HIV/AIDS?
• Maraba Coffee, the first Rwandan coffee to gain Fairtrade status, is used to make the only coffee beer sold in the British Isles?

Nauru

• no President could be elected for several weeks after the 2003 Nauruan parliamentary election due to the Parliament of Nauru being evenly split between three candidates?

Burundi

• Rwandan President Juvénal Habyarimana, and Cyprien Ntaryamira, the Hutu president of Burundi were assassinated by two surface-to-air missiles?
• Charlotte Wilson was murdered by Hutu rebels in Burundi during the Titanic Express massacre?
• the recent persecution of albinos in Tanzania and Burundi is based on the belief that their body parts have magical power and impart prosperity?

Namibia

• Namibian Deputy Defence Minister Victor Simunja received military training in both the United States and Soviet Union?
• Namibian politician Jesaya Nyamu, who was expelled from SWAPO for writing a private note on how to undermine President Sam Nujoma, formed the Rally for Democracy and Progress in 2007?
• Norwegian historian Tore Linné Eriksen has published several books about Namibia, including one on what was described as the first genocide in the twentieth century?
• Erkki Nghimtina, Minister of Mines and Energy of Namibia, was only reprimanded for firing a gun shot near a relative after the teenager joined the opposition Rally for Democracy and Progress?
• Heroes' Day in Namibia, recognized by the United Nations as Namibia Day, commemorates the fighters killed during the Namibian War of Independence annually on 26 August?
• Hulda Shipanga, the first black Namibian nurse promoted to the rank of matron, attended to the wounded at the Old Location Uprising in 1959 when white doctors refused to treat them?
• Louis Pienaar was the last Administrator-General of South West Africa before Namibian independence was declared in 1990?
• Mandume Ya Ndemufayo was the last king of the Kwanyama people of Angola and Namibia?
• during the Herero and Nama uprising of 1904/05, the settlement of Seeis in central Namibia was the location of two clashes between imperial Germany and the Herero?
• local legend suggests that Ai-Ais Hot Springs in southern Namibia were discovered in 1850 by a nomadic Nama shepherd rounding up stray sheep?