Miss Rwanda

Miss Rwanda Organization
Formation	1993
Type	Beauty pageant
Headquarters	Kigali
Location	Rwanda
Membership	Miss World Miss Supranational
Official language	English Kinyarwanda
Key people	Dieudonne Ishimwe
Website	www.missrwanda.rw

Miss Rwanda is a national beauty pageant in Rwanda.

History

Miss Rwanda was organised by telecom company Rwandatel in 2009.^[1] The 1st edition Miss Rwanda 2009 was held on December 19, 2009 and Grace Bahati was made a history to become Miss Rwanda.

Titleholders

: Declared as Winner
: Ended as runner-up or top 5/6 qualification
: Ended as one of the finalists or semifinalists
: Ended as special awards winner

The Miss Rwanda organization decided to send the winner to Miss World pageant. Meanwhile the Miss Supranational Rwanda set in different organization. The winner goes to Miss Supranational pageant.

Year	Miss Rwanda	Province	Miss World Rwanda	Placement	Special Awards	Miss Supranational Rwanda	Placement	Special Awards
2009	Grace Bahati^[2]	Southern Province	―	―	―	―	―	―
2012	Aurore Mutesi Kayibanda^[3]	Southern Province	―	―	―	―	―	―
2015	Doriane Kundwa^[4]	Northern Province	―	―	―	―	―	―
2016	Jolly Mutesi^[5]	Kigali	―	―	―	―	―	―
2020			Due to the impact of COVID-19 pandemic, no pageant in 2020
2021	Naomie Nishimwe^[6]	Kigali	Naomie Nishimwe	―	―	Anitha Kate Umuratwa	Unplaced	Top 11 - Miss Elegance
2022	TBA	TBA	TBA	―	―	TBA	TBA	TBA

References

^ "Miss Rwanda: Rwandatel to organize Miss Rwanda 2009". focus.rw. Archived from the original on 2014-10-02.
^ "Miss Rwanda crowned". The New Times. 20 December 2009.
^ "Kayibanda crowned Miss Rwanda 2012". The New Times. 3 September 2012.
^ "Doriane Kundwa crowned Miss Rwanda 2015". The New Times. 22 February 2015.
^ "Jolly Mutesi is crowned Miss Rwanda 2016". The New Times. 28 February 2016.
^ "Nyina wa Miss Rwanda 2020, Nishimwe Naomie, avuga ko yari yaripfuje iryo teka kuva kera". BBC News Gahuza. 23 March 2020.

External links

Official website

Miss World participant countries and territories

Active
(1951–present)

Africa	Angola Botswana Cameroon Cote d'Ivoire Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Ghana Guinea Guinea-Bissau Kenya Madagascar Mauritius Namibia Nigeria Rwanda Senegal Sierra Leone Somalia South Africa South Sudan Tanzania Tunisia Uganda Zambia
Americas	Antigua and Barbuda Argentina Aruba Bahamas Barbados Belize Bolivia Brazil British Virgin Islands Canada Cayman Islands Chile Colombia Costa Rica Curaçao Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guadeloupe Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Nicaragua Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Saint Lucia Sint Maarten Trinidad and Tobago United States US Virgin Islands Uruguay Venezuela
Asia	Bangladesh Cambodia China Hong Kong India Indonesia Iraq Japan Korea Kyrgyzstan Laos Macau Malaysia Mongolia Myanmar Nepal Philippines Singapore Sri Lanka Thailand Vietnam
Europe	Albania Armenia Belarus Belgium Bosnia and Herzegovina Bulgaria Croatia Czech Republic Denmark England Finland France Georgia Gibraltar Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Italy Kazakhstan Luxembourg Malta Moldova Montenegro Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Scotland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Spain Sweden Turkey Ukraine Wales
Oceania	Australia Cook Islands New Zealand Samoa

Inactive since 2019 (latest edition before the COVID-19 pandemic)

Africa	Algeria (2002) Cape Verde (2017) Chad (2014) Democratic Republic of the Congo (2016) Egypt (2018) Eswatini (2009) Gabon (2015) Gambia (1986) Lesotho (2018) Liberia (2017) Malawi (2012) Morocco (1968) São Tomé and Príncipe (2014) Seychelles (2017) Zimbabwe (2018)
Americas	Bermuda (2015) Bonaire (2012) Cuba (1975) Dominica (2013) Grenada (2007) Martinique (2018) Montserrat (1964) Saint Barthelemy (2011) Saint Kitts and Nevis (2015) Saint Vincent and the Grenadines (1994) Suriname (2012) Turks and Caicos (2004)
Asia	Chinese Taipei (2013) Israel (2017) Jordan (1981) Lebanon (2018) Syria (1966) Uzbekistan (2013)
Europe	Andorra (2003) Austria (2018) Cyprus (2018) Estonia (2007) Germany (2018) Greenland (1992) Kosovo (2014) Latvia (2018) Lithuania (2014) Monaco (1955) North Macedonia (2015) Switzerland (2014)
Oceania	Fiji (2017) Guam (2018) Northern Marianas (2003) Papua New Guinea (1990) Tahiti (2010) Tonga (1986)

Inactive non-existing countries and former territories and others
Africa South (Miss South Africa for Blacks) (1976) Czechoslovakia (1992) Hawaii (2001) Guernsey (1975) Isle of Man (1988) Jersey (1981) Rhodesia and Nyasaland (1965) Serbia and Montenegro (2005) Tanganyika (1960) United Kingdom (1999) USSR (1990) Yugoslavia (2002)

Miss Supranational participant countries and territories

List of Miss Supranational countries (Active since 2009–present)

Africa	Cameroon Cote d'Ivoire Equatorial Guinea Ethiopia Ghana Kenya Mauritius Namibia Nigeria Rwanda Sierra Leone South Africa South Sudan Zambia
Americas	Argentina Bahamas Barbados Bolivia Brazil Canada Chile Colombia Costa Rica Dominican Republic Ecuador El Salvador Guatemala Guyana Haiti Honduras Jamaica Mexico Panama Paraguay Peru Puerto Rico Suriname Trinidad and Tobago United States US Virgin Islands Venezuela
Asia	Bangladesh Cambodia India Indonesia Japan Korea Laos Macau Myanmar Nepal Philippines Singapore Sri Lanka Thailand Vietnam
Europe	Albania Belarus Belgium Croatia Czech Republic Denmark England Finland France Germany Greece Hungary Iceland Ireland Lithuania Malta Netherlands Northern Ireland Norway Poland Portugal Romania Russia Scotland Slovakia Spain Sweden Turkey Ukraine Wales
Oceania	Australia New Zealand

Inactive since 2019 (latest edition before COVID-19)

Africa	Angola (2017) Cape Verde (2017) Egypt (2016) Gambia () Guinea () Gabon () Mali () Morocco () Réunion (2013) São Tomé and Príncipe (2017) Togo (2018) Zimbabwe (2017)
Americas	Aruba () Belize () Bonaire () Cuba () Curaçao () Guadeloupe (2018) Martinique (2013) Nicaragua (2013) Uruguay (2013)
Asia	Chinese Taipei () Iraq (2013) Israel () Hong Kong () Lebanon (2018) Malaysia (2018) Mongolia (2016) Pakistan (2018)
Europe	Armenia () Azerbaijan (2013) Bosnia and Herzegovina () Bulgaria () Cyprus () Estonia () Georgia () Gibraltar (2017) Italy (2018) Kazakhstan (2017) Kosovo (2018) Latvia () Luxembourg () Macedonia () Montenegro (2018) Moldova (2018) Serbia (2013) Slovenia (2018) Switzerland (2018)
Oceania	Polynesia ()