List of wars involving Rwanda

This is a list of wars involving Rwanda since its independence from Belgium in 1962.

Conflict	Rwanda and allies	Opponents	Results	President of Rwanda
Rwandan Revolution (1959–1961)	Kingdom of Rwanda	Parmehutu	Regime change Rwanda became a republic^[1]	Kigeli V
Bugesera invasion (1963)	Government of Rwanda Belgium	Inyenzi	Government victory Massacre of 10,000 Tutsi civilians^[2]	Grégoire Kayibanda
Rwandan Civil War (1990–1994)	Government of Rwanda France Zaire Interahamwe Impuzamugambi	FPR	Regime change End of the Rwandan genocide Start of Great Lakes refugee crisis^[3]	Juvénal Habyarimana
First Congo War (1996–1997)	AFDL Uganda Rwanda Burundi Angola Eritrea	Zaire ALiR Interahamwe UNITA	Victory Overthrow of Mobutu Sese Seko Zaire was reorganized into the DR Congo	Pasteur Bizimungu
Second Congo War (1998–2002)^[4]	RCD RCD-Goma Banyamulenge MLC FFR UPC Uganda Rwanda Burundi UNITA	DR Congo Angola Chad Namibia Zimbabwe FDLR RDR ALiR Interahamwe Mai-Mai LRA UNRF II ADF FNI FROLINA CNDD-FDD	Stalemate Creation of a unified, multi-party government Pretoria Accord Start of the Kivu conflict	Paul Kagame
Eastern Congo Offensive (2009)	Rwanda DR Congo	FDLR	Victory Hutu Power militia weakened^[5]
Dongo Rebellion (2009)	Rwanda DR Congo	RPD	Victory DR Congo recaptures Dongo^[6]
Central African Republic Civil War (2020–)	Central African Republic Rwanda Russia	CPC	Ongoing Rwandan intervention in 2020^[7]
Insurgency in Cabo Delgado (2021–)	Mozambique South Africa Tanzania Rwanda	Ansar al-Sunna ISIL	Ongoing Rwandan intervention in 2021

Notes

^ Crowder, edited by Michall (1984). The Cambridge history of Africa : volume 8, from c. 1940 to c. 1975 (Repr. ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 0521224098.
^ Prunier, Gérard (1999). The Rwanda Crisis: History of a Genocide (2nd ed.). Kampala: Fountain Publishers Limited. ISBN 978-9970-02-089-8.
^ Prunier, p. 4
^ The Second Congo War lasted until 18 July 2003, but Rwanda withdrew in 2002 following the Pretoria Accord.
^ GETTLEMAN, JEFFREY (20 January 2009). "Congo: Joint Offensive Against a Militia". New York Times. Retrieved 14 July 2009.
^ DR Congo's armed forces enter troubled Dongo area, Xinhua, 15 December 2009, archived from the original on May 15, 2011.
^ Rwanda deploys troops to CAR under bilateral arrangement, The East African, Dec 22, 2020. Accessed Dec 28, 2020.