[ noun ] the national capital and largest city of Rwanda; located in central Rwanda <noun.location>
Kigali, the capital, is first.
A dusk-to-dawn curfew announced Tuesday was extended round the clock and a Belgian reporter in Kigali said some people confined to their homes were running short of food.
The US will send troops into Rwanda to help boost emergency relief efforts at the airport in the capital, Kigali.
Jean-Claude Fayd-Herbe, the World Bank's chief representative in Rwanda, told journalists that he and his family were staying in a hotel in Kigali when rebels attacked early Friday.
Henri Taelman, the head of medical services at Kigali's main hospital, said in a report that the total number of infected people in the central African country had almost doubled in four years.
Since the invasion, many Tutsi and some Hutu businessmen and intellectuals in Kigali have been arrested, according to diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity.
The Rwandan government marked the start of President Jevenal Habyarimana's third term by commuting death sentences and reducing prison terms for inmates sentenced before Jan. 8, Radio Kigali said Tuesday.
Residents said they could hear sporadic gunfire and mortar bombs exploding. The UN headquarters in Kigali was reported to have come under mortar fire. The world body has 2,500 UN peacekeepers stationed in Rwanda.
Rwandan diplomats claim the president's aircraft was shot down by the rebel Rwandan Patriotic Front, but the group has denied involvement. UN military observers have not been allowed to inspect the wreckage of the aircraft at Kigali airport.
The diplomat said government soldiers were conducting house-to-house searches in some parts of Kigali, but it was not clear whether they were looking for arms or Tutsis.
The refugees still do not trust Radio Rwanda - controlled by the new government in Kigali - while Radio Zaire has little relevance to their lives.
But fierce clashes were reported in the northern part of the country and 500 soldiers from neighboring Zaire arrived in Kigali to reinforce the 5,000-strong Rwandan army.
Since Friday, nearly 1,500 troos from France, Belgium and Zaire have arrived to protect their citizens and embassies in Kigali and help Rwanda's army maintain control.
The report said 25% to 30% of the sexually active population of Kigali, where 157,000 people live, carry the AIDS virus.