Country Profile: Rwanda

Front of the 1000 Franc note showing the Genocide Museum and an Intore Dance printed in SICPA’s SPARK® Live colourshifting ink (© HVB Stiftung Geldscheinsammlung München/National Bank of Rwanda).

Front of the 1000 Franc note showing the Genocide Museum and an Intore Dance printed in SICPA’s SPARK® Live colourshifting ink (© HVB Stiftung Geldscheinsammlung München/National Bank of Rwanda).

Rwanda is a relatively small land-locked African country in the Great Rift Valley bordering Uganda, Tanzania, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It is the most densely populated mainland African country with a young, mainly rural population numbering 12.6 million.