Kigali City Tower 2005. The building consists of three components: the tower, which rises to 20 stories, the 4-story commercial center, and a car parking block which is also 4 stories tall. As of 2013 the tower is the tallest building in Kigali and Rwanda. The total retail floor space is around while office space is . The tower block is occupied mostly by office space, with only the ground, lower ground and top floors being retail. Each floor of the tower has of office space available. The largest retailer in the complex is a branch of the Kenyan supermarket chain Nakumatt, which
Kigali down near Kigali Airport. This was the catalyst for the Rwandan genocide, in which 500,000–1,000,000 Tutsi and politically moderate Hutu were killed in well-planned attacks on the orders of the interim government. Opposition politicians based in Kigali were killed on the first day of the genocide, and the city then became the setting for fierce fighting between the army (mostly Hutu) and the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF). On 8 April, Rwandan government forces attacked the RPF base in the parliament building from several directions, but RPF troops successfully fought back. The RPF then began an attack from the north