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  • The capital and largest city of Rwanda, in the central part of the country east of Lake Kivu.

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  • proper noun The capital of Rwanda.

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  • noun the national capital and largest city of Rwanda; located in central Rwanda

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Examples

  • KIGALI - Thousands of Rwandan refugees, carrying meagre belongings on their heads and pushing wheelbarrows, returned to their homes in an eerily-quiet capital Kigali.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • KIGALI - A rebel mortar bomb killed a U.N. peacekeeper in Kigali, prompting the United Nations to suspend operations in Rwanda amid reports of new massacres of hundreds of trapped refugees.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • KIGALI - A shaky truce took effect in the Rwandan capital Kigali to allow a

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • KIGALI - A rebel mortar bomb killed a U.N. peacekeeper in Kigali, prompting the United Nations to suspend operations in Rwanda amid reports of new massacres of hundreds of trapped refugees.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • KIGALI - A shaky truce took effect in the Rwandan capital Kigali to allow a

    ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

  • KIGALI: One person was killed and 18 injured in three simultaneous grenade attacks on public places in the Rwandan capital Kigali, national public radio said on Saturday.

    nst online 2010

  • KIGALI: A grenade attack in the Rwandan capital Kigali wounded seven people on Wednesday, the day PresidentPaul Kagame was confirmed overwhelmingly to have won another term, police said.

    The Times of India 2010

  • KIGALI: A grenade attack in the Rwandan capital Kigali wounded seven people on Wednesday, the day PresidentPaul Kagame was confirmed overwhelmingly to have won another term, police said.

    The Times of India 2010

  • KIGALI - One person was killed and 18 injured in three simultaneous grenade attacks on public places in the Rwandan capital Kigali, national public

    WN.com - Articles related to Karzai studying peace offer from militant group 2010

  • KIGALI: One person was killed and 18 injured in three simultaneous grenade attacks on public places in the Rwandan capital Kigali, national public radio said on Saturday.

    nst online 2010

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