Postage stamps and postal history of Rwanda Postage stamps and postal history of Rwanda This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Rwanda. The "Republic of Rwanda" is a landlocked country located in the Great Lakes region of eastern-central Africa, bordered by Uganda, Burundi, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Tanzania. The first stamps used in the area now known as Rwanda were stamps of German East Africa which was the colonial power in the area until 1916 when Belgian troops seized the territory during the First World War. Stamps of Ruanda-Urundi were then used until independence. The first stamps of independent
Crane Bank Rwanda USh2,778 = US$1.00. Crane Bank Rwanda was a 100% subsidiary of Crane Bank, the 3rd largest commercial bank in Uganda, the largest indigenous commercial bank in the country, with approximately US$620 million in total assets at December 2014. In May 2017, CBA Rwanda, a microfinance institution, made public its intention to acquire Crane Bank Rwanda, a commercial bank, whose parent company in Uganda had been sold and the buyers of the parent did not want to keep the Rwandan subsidiary. On 15 June 2017 the CBA Group signed a definitive sale and purchase agreement with DFCU Bank, the owners of