The Rwakayihura famine was a major

famine A famine is a widespread scarcity of food, caused by several factors including war, natural disasters, crop failure, Demographic trap, population imbalance, widespread poverty, an Financial crisis, economic catastrophe or government policies. Th ...

which affected

Ruanda-Urundi Ruanda-Urundi (), later Rwanda-Burundi, was a colonial territory, once part of German East Africa, which was occupied by troops from the Belgian Congo during the East African campaign in World War I and was administered by Belgium under militar ...

between 1928 and 1929. It was particularly acute in central and eastern Ruanda where its effects continued until 1930. It is believed to have caused tens of thousands of deaths.

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