Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of the Congo both struggled with political instability after gaining independence from European powers.
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After the World War II ended, the European colonial powers were significantly weakened, and on top of that there were lot of movements for independence. This resulted in the Europeans to start granting independence to their colonies, including in Africa, so lot of new countries emerged. Two of those countries were Rwanda and DR Congo.
As many African countries, these two struggled politically after they gained independence. DR Congo fell into the hands of a military dictator, and the country was in a mess for decades, and still is. The corruption became part of the everyday life, few people controlled all the wealth, while the majority of the population was struggling to survive. Pretty much everything was solved through violence. Rwanda had big internal tensions between its two largest ethnic groups, the Hutus and the Tutsies. The majority Hutu population launched an attack on the Tutsies in order to destroy them, resulting in genocide.