title: 2021 in Rwanda
text: # 2021 in Rwanda
  
  Events in the year 2021 in Rwanda.
  
  ## Incumbents
  
  * President: Paul Kagame
  * Prime Minister: Édouard Ngirente
  
  ## Events
  
  Ongoing — COVID-19 pandemic in Rwanda
  
  * 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.
  
  ### Scheduled events
  
  * 24 August to 5 September – Scheduled date for the AfroBasket 2021, to be hosted by Rwanda.
  
  ## Deaths
  
  * February 22 – Seif Bamporiki, politician (Rwanda National Congress (RNC); killed during a robbery in South Africa
  