Aloisea Inyumba

Aloisea Inyumba (28 December 1964 – 6 December 2012) was a Rwandan politician, who was the country's Minister for Gender and Family Promotion and as executive secretary of the National Unity and Reconciliation Commission.

While studying social work and social administration at Makerere University in Uganda, she joined the Rwandan Patriotic Front. another Rwandan refugee who was at the time serving in the rebel army of Yoweri Museveni. One year later, Museveni took control of the country and promoted Kagame and fellow Rwandan Fred Rwigyema to officers in the country's national army. Kagame and Rwigyema took these positions, but their ultimate goal was to return with force to their own country, in order to facilitate the return of the refugees. Kagame and Rwigyema joined and took over the Rwandan Patriotic Front, a Rwandan liberation organisation, and Inyumba joined as well. The pair began dating when they were both students at Makerere University in Kampala. She had been suffering from throat cancer, and had recently returned home after seeking treatment in Germany. Inyumba was granted a state funeral at the Parliament of Rwanda building in Kigali and her eulogy was delivered by the country's president, Paul Kagame. Kagame described her as a selfless leader who was "a very good cadre and ideologically clear". Other speakers at the funeral included Cabinet Affairs minister Protais Musoni and the vice-governor of the National Bank of Rwanda, Monique Nsanzabaganwa.