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Article: Returning Tutsis help rebuild Rwanda; Business skills learned in exile.(BUSINESS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- April 8, 2004
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Byline: Carter Dougherty, THE WASHINGTON TIMES
KIGALI, Rwanda - Ben Rugangazi, born in exile from his native Rwanda, has returned with the money and business savvy to help rebuild the nation a decade after one of the worst genocides in history.
This Rwandan businessman, a member of the minority Tutsi tribe who spent his first three decades as a refugee, now governs large chunks of Rwanda's small economy from a modest office in the capital city.
Like many returning Tutsis, Mr. Rugangazi has experience outside Rwanda that is helping to bring business back to the impoverished African nation.
"Rwanda has been a backward place, and we saw ...