Flag of Rwanda

The flag of Rwanda was adopted on October 25, 2001.
== Details ==
The flag has four colours: blue, green, and two forms of yellow (standard yellow for the middle band and what the Pantone system calls "sun yellow" for the sun). The blue band represents happiness and peace, the yellow band symbolizes economic development, and the green band symbolizes the hope of prosperity. The sun represents enlightenment.
The new flag represents national unity, respect for work, heroism, and confidence in the future. It was adopted to avoid connotations to the 1994 genocide. The flag was designed by Alphonse Kirimobenecyo.
When hung vertically, the flag should be displayed as the horizontal version rotated clockwise 90 degrees.
== Previous flag ==
Rwanda's previous flag was a red-yellow-green tricolour with a large black letter "R" (to distinguish it from the otherwise identical Flag of Guinea). Derived from the flag of Ethiopia, the colours green, yellow, and red represented peace; the nation's hope for its development; and the people. The colours were associated with Pan-African colours. The flag was changed because it became associated with the brutality of the 1994 genocide.
==Gallery==
File:Flag of the German East Africa Company.svg|Flag of the German East Africa Company, flown by early German colonial entrepreneurs in the East African region 
File:Flag_of_Deutsch-Ostafrika.svg | Flag of German East Africa, the first formal European colonial power in the area
File:Flag of Belgium (civil).svg|Flag of Belgium, used by Ruanda-Urundi (the predecessor to Rwanda)
File:Flag of Rwanda (1959-1961).svg|Flag of the Kingdom of Rwanda (1959–September 24, 1961)
File:Flag of Rwanda (1962-2001).svg|Flag of Rwanda (September 25, 1961–October 24, 2001), changed because of the 1994 genocide
File:Presidential Standard of Rwanda.svg|Flag of the President of Rwanda
== References ==
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