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Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa is a Rwandan tobacco manufacturer, entrepreneur and philanthropist. Ayabatwa had a hard early life experience. He was born in Rwanda in At age 12, he lost his mother to illness and at 16 he was expelled from school by the colonial administration when he was doing Grade 8 at the age of 16 and had to fend for himself after that.

When the colonial administration continued to ferment ethnic tensions between the majority Hutu and minority Tutsi, the latter to which Ayabatwa belonged, he fled home as he saw no future in Rwanda. He left to live in neighbouring Burundi as a refugee at the age of 19 [3].

Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa is a Rwandan tobacco manufacturer, entrepreneur and philanthropist.

He landed his first job in Burundi in , working for the Regional Post office that serviced communications between Rwanda and Burundi. He left this job and went to work for a petroleum-storage company, rising through the ranks to occupy a manager position at the age of 22 [4]. Between and , Ayabatwa's career turned successfullly into business.

His first business adventure was a pickup truck he bought using his savings from the petrol company. Buying the second-hand truck, he hired a driver, and transported people and goods. At age 29, he started a bakery, with shops and supermarkets in Burundi ordering his breads.

Tribert Rujugiro Ayabatwa (c.

Making money here, he soon began to explore other business ventures. Realising the food shortages in Burundi, he started importing wheat, flour and salt from neighbouring countries. Armed conflicts in Tanzania disturbed his salt business but he managed to find alternative import routes in border areas occupied by anti-colonial rebel groups [5].

From there he expanded his businesses and established himself as a gold trader, a venture he later regretted as he lost all his investment. In , he began importing cigarettes from Tanzania to Burundi.