University of Kigali Tanzania, China, Ivory Coast, Gabon, Ethiopia, Turkey and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The University of Kigali is a member of: University of Kigali University of Kigali is a fully accredited and chartered university by the Government of Rwanda. UoK started its operations in October 2013. The current Vice-Chancellor of the University is Prof. Peter Mageto. The university started operations in October 2013, with 649 students and has experienced rapid growth in enrolment of more than 6,000 students in the undergraduate programmes and more than 1,000 students in the postgraduate programmes. Its main campus is based in Kigali, Boulevard de
Kigali new independent nation, but Kigali was chosen because of its more central location. The city grew slowly during the following decades, but retained a small-town feel, with just 25,000 people and five paved roads by the early 1970s. On 6 July 1973 there was a bloodless military coup, in which minister of defence Juvénal Habyarimana overthrew ruling president Gregoire Kayibanda. Businesses closed for a few days, and troops patrolled across the city, but life had returned to normal and the army had left the streets by 11 July. In April 1994 President Habyarimana was assassinated, when his plane was shot