Executive Branch Reform – 1994
1994
According to the UN Secretary General’s report, a broad-based government of national unity was installed on 19 July 1994 and established control over the Rwandan territory.1 Although the national unity government was in place in 1994, this does not indicate that the reforms agreed in the Arusha accord of 1993 were fully implemented. The president and the victorious RPF dominated government activities and unilaterally assumed the cabinet posts previously allocated to the MRND, then in exile. The RPF also created a powerful post of vice-president not mentioned in the Arusha Accords and occupied by RPF leader Paul Kagame, who simultaneously served as minister of defense. The accord requires a counter signature by the Prime Minister in bills passed by the legislature.