2021 in Rwanda

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See also:	Other events of 2021 ; List of years in Rwanda

Events in the year 2021 in Rwanda .

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5 March ? Rwanda is the first African nation to receive the Pfizer?BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine . 102,960 doses of Pfizer and 240,000 doses of Oxford?AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine have arrived through the U.N. COVAX program. Rwanda has had 19,000 cases and 265 deaths related to the virus. ^[1]

24 August to 5 September ? Scheduled date for the AfroBasket 2021 , to be hosted by Rwanda. ^[2]

February 22 ? Seif Bamporiki, politician ( Rwanda National Congress (RNC); killed during a robbery in South Africa ^[3]

^ Uwiringiyimana, Clement (March 6, 2021). "Rwanda becomes first African nation to use Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine" . news.yahoo.com . Reuters . Retrieved March 6, 2021 .
^ "FIBA's Executive Committee confirms global calendar update" . fiba.basketball . Retrieved 7 January 2021 .
^ "Rwandan Seif Bamporiki killed in South Africa" . BBC News . BBC World News. 22 February 2021 . Retrieved February 22, 2021 .

v t e 2021 in Africa
Sovereign states	Algeria Angola Benin Botswana Burkina Faso Burundi Cameroon Cape Verde Central African Republic Chad Comoros Democratic Republic of the Congo Republic of the Congo Djibouti Egypt Equatorial Guinea Eritrea Eswatini Ethiopia Gabon The Gambia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Ivory Coast (Cote d'Ivoire) Kenya Lesotho Liberia Libya Madagascar Malawi Mali Mauritania Mauritius Morocco Mozambique Namibia Niger Nigeria Rwanda Sao Tome and Principe Senegal Seychelles Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Sudan Tanzania Togo Tunisia Uganda Zambia Zimbabwe
States with limited recognition	Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic Somaliland
Dependencies , colonies and other territories	Ascension Island Mayotte Reunion Saint Helena Tristan da Cunha Western Sahara