Rwanda, land of a thousand hills, has a cool climate considering that it is situated close to the equator. The mountains make this possible.The Rwanda Nile plays a major role in the water supply to Rwanda people. The Rwanda Nile is part of the White Nile. Rwanda does however have many other sources of water such has fresh water lakes.
There have been inhabitants in the geographic area since the paleolithic stone age.
The Twa or Batwa gatherer hunter tribes were likely the first to settle along the Rwanda Nile and the Great Lakes Region of central Africa.
Evidence indicates that the Twa were overpowered by the Hutu tribes (Bantu speaking and farmers who's numbers grew quicker that the pigmy hunter-gatherers). Another Bantu speaking tribe known as the Tutsi came along in approximately 1500 AD and overpowered the remaining Twa and the Hutu. The Tutsi were cattle ranchers and some sources say they entered Rwanda via the Horn of Africa (northeast Africa/Somali peninsula). Other sources claim they were dissident Twa and Hutu revolutionists.
The Rwanda tribes have been feuding since the subjugation and the Twa, who are small in numbers, have basically been watching their numbers deteriorate with the battles.
This fighting reached an holocaust level in 1994 when hundreds of thousands lost their life in genocidal homicides.
The Rwanda Nile meanwhile continues to flow in this mountainous country of central Africa.
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