Gisenyi

Province

Gisenyi is a city on Lake Kivu in Rwanda with about 84,000 inhabitants ( 2005). It has a sandy beach, which is famous for water sports, as well as a brewery. The village lies on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Congolese city of Goma against and how this at the foot of Nyiragongo volcano.

From 1976 Gisenyi was first formal seat of the Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries. During the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, the provisional government of Rwanda was quartered in Gisenyi. Many refugees fled across Gisenyi in the Congo.

Until 1 January 2006, there were also a province of Gisenyi. Today belongs to the Gisenyi district Rubavu in the Western Province.