Kayumba nyamwasa biography samples

Rwandan former Lieutenant general (born 1958)

Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa (born 1962) is a Rwandan former Lieutenant general who formerly was the Chief of Staff of the Rwandan Army from 1998 to 2002.

He was also head of Rwandan intelligence from 1998 to 2002^[1] and served as Rwanda's ambassador to India between 2004 and 2010. Nyamwasa has been an opposition leader in exile since as part of the Rwanda National Congress.

Kayumba nyamwasa biography samples

Rise and fall with RPF

A Tutsi born in Uganda Nyamwasa grew up in Rubabo, Rukungiri in western Uganda. He was educated at St. Paul Seminary, Rushoroza in Kabale for O- Levels before joining St. Henry’s College Kitovu for A-Level.

He later earned a law degree in Makerere University. He later joined Yoweri Museveni'sNational Resistance Army in January 1986 and served as a Ugandan military officer before 1990. With Paul Kagame,^[2] he contributed to the creation of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) in the late 1980s and was c