Jean Baptiste Uwizeyimana

The Managing Partner @AttorneysHouse, a Modern Corporate and Commercial Law Firm and a Member of Rwanda Bar Association as well, Above all, a Happy Rwandan

[🇷🇼Rwanda in UK 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇲🇹 @RwandaInUK]

#InvestInRwanda #VisitRwanda 🇷🇼

[Shirley Botchwey @SGCommonwealth]

On behalf of the Commonwealth, I warmly congratulate @PaulKagame and the people of Rwanda on Rwanda ‘s 10-year agreement with Formula 1 to host the African Grand Prix.

This marks nearly 40 years since another Commonwealth African country, South Africa,  hosted the South African Grand Prix at Kyalami in 1993 marking the sport's return to the African continent for the first time since 1993.

[Jean Baptiste Uwizeyimana @CounselBaptiste]

@erick_shaba Bwana Musesenguzi, ibi muvuze rwose biragutse kuburyo umuntu wese yakumvamo ibyo ashaka kumva. Gusa mutubwiye abantu 3 bari mu isi, ubusobanuro mubwerekeza ku isi. Ariko se “Umuntu ni iki?” Nabyo muzabitubwire muri uwo murongo hagendewe kuri abo 3 hahahaha

[Hakainde Hichilema @HHichilema]

Congratulations to my brother, President @PaulKagame and the people of Rwanda on securing the @F1 Formula 1 African Grand Prix. This historic achievement reflects your resilience, vision, and smart hard work. Zambia shares your pride in this milestone for Rwanda and Africa. HH

[Paul Kagame @PaulKagame]

Thank you my dear brother President @CyrilRamaphosa for your warm congratulations and offer of support. We look forward to working with you and all who share this vision as we make this a truly African Grand Prix in every way possible, and take motorsport to new heights on our continent.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Rwanda is building an airport big enough for every person in the country to fly through it once a year.

About 14 million people live there. The new airport is designed for 14 million passengers a year. The one they have now handles around 2 million.

So how do you fill that thing? You go get Formula 1.

The track F1 just announced goes in Bugesera, about 40km south of Kigali, right next to that new $2 billion airport. It's a 10-year deal starting in the early 2030s, and it'll be the first Grand Prix in Africa since 1993.

Now look at who owns the airport. Qatar Airways has 60% of it. Qatar Airways is also F1's official airline.

This is where it gets really smart, because Qatar has done this exact thing before. Doha opened Hamad International in 2014 and spent the next decade giving the world reasons to land there, with a World Cup in 2022 and a Grand Prix locked in through 2032. Hamad now handles over 50 million passengers a year in a country of about 3 million people. Rwanda is basically running Qatar's playbook with Qatar as its business partner.

And Rwanda has been setting this up for years. Visit Rwanda, the country's tourism board, got its logo on Arsenal's sleeve back in 2018 for a reported £10 million a year, and later added PSG, Bayern and Atlético. Kigali hosted the FIA's big awards night in 2024, which is where President Kagame first said out loud he wanted a race. The next year it hosted cycling's world championships, the first time they'd ever been held in Africa. It hosted 165 international conferences last year alone.

Tourism brought in $685 million last year from 1.49 million visitors, and gorilla treks were $248 million of that by themselves. For Rwanda that's real money. But you can't fill a 14 million passenger airport with people coming to see gorillas, so the country keeps buying bigger pieces of the world's attention.

South Africa wanted this race too. It has the history, the old Kyalami circuit, and a sports minister who kept saying F1 was coming back. Talks there stalled over problems with the local promoter. Rwanda walked in with government money behind it and a former F1 driver, Alexander Wurz, already drawing the track.

People are going to have strong feelings about this one. Arsenal and Visit Rwanda wrapped up their sleeve deal after last season, following fan protests and a letter from DR Congo's foreign minister calling the club's sponsorship "blood-stained." Five months later, the same tourism board's name is on the title of a Formula 1 race. Critics have called the whole Visit Rwanda strategy sportswashing for years. Kagame's pitch today was about young Africans finally getting to watch the sport at home and picture themselves in it as engineers, and one day as drivers.

The airport is supposed to open in 2028, with the first race a few years after that. If the plan works, a country smaller than Maryland becomes one of the places people across Africa change planes, and the airline that already pulled that off in the Gulf will own most of the terminal.

[Green Lantern 💚 🇿🇦 @Mr_LiverpoolX]

We will bring South Africa into the mix while we celebrate Rwanda. People must understand that we elect poor leaders bringing South Africa down. We cant keep on protecting useless leaders! We must learn from Rwanda government as small as they are but they are a powerhouse now!

[Jean Baptiste Uwizeyimana @CounselBaptiste]

@JosiahThobejane @GaytonMcK Just, be assured that such services will not be outsourced. Everyone will pleasantly be accommodated in Rwanda. Even if you may wish to stay forever, you are welcome and we are very open to accommodate you. We are a nation that welcomes everyone of good intention

[Jean Baptiste Uwizeyimana @CounselBaptiste]

@ChiefZW1 @LarryMadowo @PaulKagame 😂😂😂 This is surely funny, I mean the last part of your tweet /X. However that alone is a testament that he believes in things until they get right. He might know when it will be right for sure, HE has a vision for things to happen in Future which many don’t have. Visionary

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

Formula 1 is heading back to Africa for the first time since 1993.

Rwanda has signed a 10-year deal to host races, starting "in the early 2030s".

[FIA @fia]

Rwanda set to join the Formula 1 calendar! 🇷🇼

The FIA Formula One World Championship will head back to Africa for the first time since 1993, with a new FIA Grade 1 circuit planned for Bugesera, Rwanda, expected to host its first race in the early 2030s 🏁

#FIA #F1 #AfricanGP

[Formula 1 @F1]

Africa, we’re back. 🌍

From the early 2030s, the African Grand Prix will join the calendar and take place in Bugesera, Rwanda 🇷🇼

#F1

[L'Équipe @lequipe]

L'Afrique fait son retour au calendrier de la F1 ➡️ https://t.co/8FQCZwsn66

Cette fois, c'est officiellement confirmé : la Formule 1 fera son retour sur le continent africain, au Rwanda. Un contrat de dix ans a été signé avec pour seule incertitude la date du premier Grand Prix, au début des années 2030 sur un circuit qui va être construit à proximité de Kigali, la capitale.

[Jean Baptiste Uwizeyimana @CounselBaptiste]

@Dhph2o @MarioNawfal 😂 What you just read.

[Russian Embassy in Rwanda @RusEmb_Rwanda]

The Embassy of Russia in Rwanda extends its sincere sympathy to the traders and business owners who suffered losses in the fire at Goico Market in Musanze.

[Jean Baptiste Uwizeyimana @CounselBaptiste]

@SamuelBaker_B Only that many have ears but of no use, the issue was a Congolese matter from the start.

[Jean Baptiste Uwizeyimana @CounselBaptiste]

@Dhph2o @MarioNawfal May God lights upon u. But guy, do u really know that you people who calls yourselves superior breeds same blood as those you call savages? I wish u do not face the misery before them. The truth is that we are equal, only that the fact is we will fight for ourselves 4 our future.

[Urujeni Nathalie @UrujeniNathalie]

@MarioNawfal The story reminds me of the statement made to you by President Kagame.

[Jean Baptiste Uwizeyimana @CounselBaptiste]

@adeprrwanda Imana ihabwe icyubahiro kubw’Umurimo wayo. Twifurije imirimo myiza Abayobozi bashya b’Inama nkuru n’abo bazafatanya kuyobora Itorero. Dushimiye abarangije imirimo yabo. Uwiteka Imana nyir’ubuhanga izabashoboze.

[Olivier J.P. Nduhungirehe @onduhungirehe]

Today in New York, Rwanda was elected, by acclamation, Chairperson of the Group of 77 and China for the year 2027. This is the largest intergovernmental coalition, made of 134 developping countries, united by the promotion of their economic interests.

I would like to express our gratitude and appreciation for the collective confidence of all the members of the Group in entrusting us with this high office and great responsibility. I am particularly grateful to the African Union and our fellow African Member States for the unanimous decision to endorse Rwanda, which is a testimony of the trust and confidence placed in our country.