Fix this headline!!!!
France announces an Ebola outbreak.
(International Health Regulations (IHR) 2005, Annex 2)
‘Outbreak’ doesn’t just apply to African countries. https://t.co/FbTuIWKoKU
Landed in #Bamako. Officer checks my 🇷🇼passport. I say I’ll get a visa on arrival. She objects, calls the supervisor.
Me laughing inside: “Afande amemaliza kazi.”
Supervisor walks in, open my pp (just the first page), smiles:
“Comment va notre président ? Bienvenue au Mali.” 🇲🇱😉
“If you knew me, and you really knew yourself, you would not have killed me” – Quote on a stone wall at the Genocide Memorial in Kigali. It is located in the Children’s Room, a space dedicated to the youngest victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and one of the most haunting parts of the memorial. The Genocide is officially recognised as beginning on April 7, 1994. From tomorrow Rwanda will begin the 32nd commemoration (Kwibuka) of the Genocide.
It's not that "Rwanda could withdraw", it's that "Rwanda WILL withdraw" its troops from Mozambique, if sustainable funding is not secured for its counter-terrorism operations in Cabo Delgado. We didn't pay hundreds of millions of dollars and our RDF soldiers didn't pay the ultimate sacrifice to stabilize this region, allow IDPs to return home, children to go back to school, businesses to reopen, and mega investments in LNG to resume, just to see our valiant soldiers being constantly questioned, vilified, criticised, blamed or sanctioned by the very countries that greatly benefit from our intervention in Mozambique.
Indeed, we are ready to leave Mozambique, if our work and achievements are not appreciated.
In October 1962, at the height of the Cold War, US intelligence discovered that the Soviet Union was secretly installing nuclear missiles in Cuba, less than 150 km from US shores.
The US embargo against Cuba, established 63 years ago, remains in effect today across both Democrat & Republican administrations. America's (rare) bipartisan consensus reveals how they treat their own red lines.
Rwanda’s red line is the presence of genocidal forces being armed, protected, & deployed against it by its neighbours.
JFK acted before the Soviet missiles were operational. Rwanda is responding to a threat that has already succeeded once in annihilating our people.
This peace agreement has a spoiler: Burundi. They're belligerents pursuing their agenda against Rwanda & making Kinshasa's position more intransigent.
Mediators have known about Burundi's role. What is occurring now, therefore, is not an escalation, but the predictable result of failing to manage spoilers & safeguard the implementation of the peace agreement.
Rwanda has supported every peace framework from Luanda, Nairobi, to Washington. Our objective is stability & continued progress toward high-income status.
War would cost us everything we are building, which is why Rwanda is committed to a real, permanent solution, not band-aids. Our interest is the end of the genocidal threat, not the perpetuation of conflict.
Mediators should not ask us to accept what they themselves would never accept. Defensive action is not aggression; it's a matter of survival.
Address the Kinshasa-backed FDLR, constrain the spoilers, secure vulnerable populations, and you will find in Rwanda, as always, the most reliable partner for peace.
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Aucune démarche n'est nécessaire: un visa d'une validité de 30 jours est octroyé à l' arrivée à tous les citoyens du monde.
They will tell you that the rich use debt to build wealth.
But what they will not tell you is that they don't borrow against their pay slips.
They borrow against cash generating assets, not a salary.
Their debt is backed by solid assets, not a fickle pay slip
MODEL BUDGET FOR A 32 YR OLD BANKER, EARNING 216K(NET), HAS A SMALL FAMILY AND PLANS TO START A BUSINESS SOON...
Kimani(not his real name) married the love of his life two years ago at 30 years of age and he thought life would slow down a little. He was finally settled, working at one of the leading banks in Upperhill, Nairobi, and starting a family. ....