Rumanura famine

{{Short description|1916–18 famine in Rwanda}}

The Rumanura famine was a famine that occurred between 1916 and 1918 during the Belgian military occupation of Ruanda-Urundi in World War I when the agricultural cycle of the Mulera region was at its low end and could not provide for the Bugoyi region.{{cite book |last1=Iliffe |first1=John |authorlink=John Iliffe (historian) |title=The African Poor: A History |date=1986 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-0-521-34877-5 |page=157 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=y3AqWzsQW8AC&q=Rumanura+famine&pg=PA157 |language=en}}{{cite book |last1=Gebauer |first1=Claudia |title=Changing Climates: Translating Adaptation in{{!}}to Rwanda |date=2018 |publisher=LIT Verlag Münster |isbn=978-3-643-90826-1 |page=237 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PpVPDwAAQBAJ&q=Rumanura+famine&pg=PA237 |language=en}}{{Cite journal|last=Lugan|first=Bernard|authorlink=Bernard Lugan|date=1976|title=Causes et effets de la famine « Rumanura » au Rwanda, 1916–18|url=https://doi.org/10.1080/00083968.1976.10803760|journal=Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines|volume=10|issue=2|pages=347–356|doi=10.1080/00083968.1976.10803760|pmid=11631781|issn=0008-3968|url-access=subscription}}