Nyundo is a community in the Rubavu District of Western Province, Rwanda, on the Sebeya River to the east of Gisenyi.

[6] The mission was badly damaged during World War I, since it was close to the important defensive line between German and Belgian territory.

The German forces lived off the land, and when they retreated in 1916 they first destroyed banana groves that could provide supplies to their opponents.

The morning after the death of President Juvénal Habyarimana, on 7 April 1994 a number of Tutsi families came to Nyundo for safety.

A large, hostile and armed crowd arrived, and the killing began, including women and children who took refuge in the chapel.

[12] The "Noël de Nyundo" orphanage was first established in 1954 at Muramba, in Kingogo Region, to receive children whose mothers had died in childbirth.

[14] As of 2012 the orphanage, one of the largest in the country, was home to 189 children under eighteen and to 254 adults, including fourteen with mental disabilities.