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[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

This evening at Amahoro Stadium, President Kagame joined tens of thousands of fans for the Africa Cup of Nations (AFCON) 2027 Qualifiers match, as Rwanda’s national football team, Amavubi, secured a 3–1 victory over Liberia.

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

President Kagame joins tens of thousands of fans at Amahoro Stadium as Amavubi secure victory over Liberia in the AFCON 2027 Qualifiers.

[𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗔 𝗗𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘀 @sir_damass]

🚨𝐈𝐂𝐘𝐌𝐈: #𝐑𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐀 𝐂𝐋𝐈𝐌��𝐓𝐄 𝐒𝐂𝐈𝐄𝐍𝐂𝐄 𝐒𝐘𝐌𝐏𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐔𝐌 𝐂𝐎𝐍𝐂𝐋𝐔𝐃𝐄𝐃 𝐘𝐄𝐒𝐓𝐄𝐑𝐃𝐀𝐘. #RCSS2026

Responding to how the seasonal climate forecast, including the El Niño outlook from the Greater Horn of Africa Climate Outlook Forum held in #Kigali, is translated into risk information at the district level, @FaustinMUNYAZIK, Deputy DG @REMA_Rwanda, responded:

📌The seasonal forecast covering September to December is only a starting point.

📌The real challenge is translating it into practical guidance for districts and communities, tied to their daily routines and specific risks, such as erosion for rain fed farmers or dangers for those in fragile ecosystems.

📌Getting the message across depends on using multiple channels together, including radio, community radios, and gatherings such as Umuganda, since relying on one channel like morning news reaches only a small percentage of people, and on consistently collecting feedback rather than only broadcasting information.

📌He cited the 2023 disaster in western #Rwanda🇷🇼, where about 135 people died in one night, noting he was deployed to @RutsiroDistrict for a month. He observed that many people ignore warnings and stay in high risk areas due to a false sense of security based on family history there.

📌 He stressed the need for clear evacuation plans specifying when to vacate high risk areas and when it is safe to return, concluding that effective disaster response requires combining the right information, delivery methods, feedback mechanisms, and coordinated community action.

[𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗔 𝗗𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘀 @sir_damass]

🚨𝐅𝐮𝐥𝐥 𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨: 𝐒𝐩𝐞𝐚𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐭 𝐔𝐍𝐆𝐀𝟖𝟏, 𝐏𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐞 𝐌𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐃𝐫 𝐉𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐧 𝐍𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐲𝐮𝐦𝐯𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐰𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐩𝐨𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐬:

📌The UN must be honest that it remains far behind in adapting to a changing world. Institutions earn legitimacy through what they deliver, not what they promise.

📌Optimism must be matched by real willingness to change. The UN is often more reactive to crises than proactive in preventing them.

📌Eastern DRC is a clear example. #FDLR has spread genocidal ideology and committed grave abuses for over three decades, directly threatening Rwanda's security through cross border attacks.

📌#FDLR now operates alongside Burundian troops and DRC sponsored militias and mercenaries, in violation of the 1989 UN Convention and the 1977 OAU Convention against mercenaries.

📌The roots of the conflict in Eastern DRC are political, tied to long standing grievances, exclusion and governance failures. The solution must also be political.

📌Rwanda fully supports diplomatic efforts, commending the Washington Accords between Rwanda and DRC and the Doha process between DRC and AFC/M23.

📌He thanked President Donald Trump, the Emir of Qatar🇶🇦, and AU Mediator President Faure Gnassingbé of Togo for their mediation efforts.

📌All actors, including the Security Council, should support peace efforts fairly and push all parties to honor their commitments.

📌Prevention must also address poverty, economic shocks and exclusion. Fair development opportunities for all countries should be central to the UN80 reform process.

📌The real question is not whether multilateralism is relevant, but whether institutions are ready to adapt and deliver results. #Rwanda 🇷🇼 reaffirmed its readiness to work with all member states.

[𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗔 𝗗𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘀 @sir_damass]

📌Jean Marie Vianney Ndayizigiye, PS at Ministry of Health highlighted how they used climate data to predict the likelihood and impacts of outbreak diseases.

📌He explained that what Rwandans already know from experience, such as the high probability of flu and rain borne diseases like malaria during the rainy season, is in fact data, a pattern well known even in villages and among grandparents.

📌As a ministry, they capture this data related to climate change through their health information systems, using the Internet of Things and information from Meteo #Rwanda🇷🇼

📌He said that once this data is available, the ministry is able to see early warnings of an upcoming pandemic, allowing them to prepare, allocate resources, and respond to disease outbreaks.

📌He added that the ministry is working on a strong health national adaptation plan built on this data, including for raising funds.

📌He also noted that the ministry recently opened the National Health Intelligence Center, where this data is used daily so the ministry can be ready rather than acting as firefighters, and to guide budgeting and improve efficiency.

[𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗔 𝗗𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘀 @sir_damass]

🚨𝗩𝗶𝗱𝗲𝗼: 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝟮𝗡𝗗 𝗥𝗪𝗔𝗡𝗗𝗔 𝗖𝗟𝗜𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗦𝗖𝗜𝗘𝗡𝗖𝗘 𝗦𝗬𝗠𝗣𝗢𝗦𝗜𝗨𝗠

📌The 2nd Rwanda Climate Science Symposium (RCSS 2026) kicks off today in Kigali, bringing together researchers, policymakers, practitioners, development partners, and early career scientists to advance climate science and evidence based climate action in Rwanda.

📌Responding to how Rwanda ensures that climate data and information translate into anticipatory action and reach the appropriate actors in implementing the existing national environment and climate change frameworks, PS/MoE Fidele Bingwa said the first step is to put the data in a language that everybody understands.

📌He explained that planners from various sectors and institutions are being asked to adapt to or mitigate climate change. But they first need to understand what the various climate change projections actually mean.

📌They need to know what they mean specifically for #Rwanda🇷🇼. And they need to know what they then mean for their own sector. Only from there can the conversation on adaptation begin.

📌He illustrated this with an example from the agriculture sector.

📌If planners are shown a basic projection where rainfall quantity barely changes over the next 20 to 25 years, they might question why they are being asked to adapt when the change does not appear material.

📌This is why the data must be examined further. He noted that while the quantities do not change, the rainfall intensity does change. He added that the number of days without rainfall does increase.

📌He concluded that once data is communicated this way, sectors are able to have a real conversation.

📌They understand it and can act upon it. The same principle applies across every other sector.

#GreenRwanda
#RCSS2026?

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

This afternoon at Urugwiro Village, President Kagame met with Dr. Regis O. N’Sonde, Executive Director at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), representing Rwanda and 22 other African countries on the IMF Executive Board. Their discussions focused on Rwanda’s economic growth and continued cooperation with the IMF.

[𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗔 𝗗𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘀 @sir_damass]

🚨𝐂𝐎𝐋𝐋𝐀𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐎𝐕𝐄𝐑 𝐍𝐄𝐈𝐆𝐇𝐁𝐎𝐑𝐇𝐎𝐎𝐃

📌What can we learn from another African country that is relevant to our own objectives? Such study tours give a clear answer to this question.

📌Cross regional African defense cooperation is highly commendable. Countries can remain committed to their regional organizations while also learning across regions.

📌It is interesting to note a Southern African officer learning something useful from East Africa, taking it home, adapting it to another bloc's conditions, and eventually sharing that experience somewhere else. That is how institutional knowledge travels quietly.

[𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗔 𝗗𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘀 @sir_damass]

🚨#𝐑𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐀🇷🇼 𝐀𝐒 𝐀 𝐌𝐈𝐋𝐈𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐘 𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐒𝐄𝐂𝐔𝐑𝐈𝐓𝐘 𝐄𝐃𝐔𝐂𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐇𝐔𝐁

📌#Rwanda and Namibia's police forces have had a training cooperation agreement since 2015.

📌By 2022, at least 15 senior Namibian police officers had completed command courses at Rwanda's police college.

📌In June, Rwanda's senior command and staff course graduated 108 senior officers. Twenty seven came from 19 countries across Africa and Asia, including #Nigeria🇳🇬, #Ghana🇬🇭, #Kenya🇰🇪, #BurkinaFaso 🇧🇫, #Mali 🇲🇱, #Niger 🇳🇪, #Senegal🇸🇳, #Somalia🇸🇴, #Tanzania🇹🇿 and #Zambia🇿🇲

📌This shows that Rwanda is not simply training Rwandan officers. It is becoming a meeting point for military professional education across borders.

📌Namibia is not the only country drawn to Rwanda. Zimbabwe's joint command and staff course spent two weeks in #Rwanda in August.

📌 Sri Lanka's staff college 🇱🇰 visited in July, and Nigeria's national defense college has sent delegations of its own. #Namibia🇳🇦 has now entered that conversation.

📌Part of the draw is experience. #Rwanda🇷🇼 is consistently among the largest contributors of uniformed personnel to United Nations peacekeeping in the world, and among the largest in #Africa.

[𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗔 𝗗𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘀 @sir_damass]

🚨#𝐍𝐀𝐌𝐈𝐁𝐈𝐀🇳🇦 𝐀𝐍𝐃 #𝐑𝐖𝐀𝐍𝐃𝐀🇷🇼 𝐄𝐍��𝐀𝐆𝐄

📌A delegation of 30 senior officers and faculty members from the Namibia Command and Staff College, led by Commandant Brig Gen Erastus Benhard Nathinge, concluded a one week study tour in Rwanda last Saturday.

📌This shows that the relationship between the two countries is running deeper. Within the same year, both the political and military sectors have engaged on security and institutional questions.

📌In January this year, a delegation of Namibian parliamentarians from the National Assembly's Standing Committee on International Relations and Defense Security, led by Hon. James Unomasa, visited Rwanda to exchange experience on defense and security policies.

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

This afternoon at Urugwiro Village, President Kagame chaired a cabinet meeting.

[𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗔 𝗗𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘀 @sir_damass]

🚨𝐕𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨: Speaking as Guest of Honor (on behalf of the Minister of Education), DG of @HEC_Rwanda Dr. Kadooze Edward congratulated the Class of 2026, saying their degree is not just a certificate of achievement but an instrument for creating value and solving problems.

📌He said RICA has provided the soil, classrooms, laboratories, and mentorship, and today marks the harvest.

📌He added that the harvest is not the end of the story, it provides seeds for the next season, meaning the graduates are the beginning of another cycle of knowledge, innovation, and transformation.

📌He urged graduates to change their mindset, saying they should not ask what job their degree can give them, but rather what problems they can help solve because they have a degree. He said that is the mindset Rwanda needs.

📌He noted higher education enrollment in #Rwanda🇷🇼 stands at about 10 percent against a national target of 27 percent within five years, requiring institutions to nearly quadruple access while maintaining quality.

📌He said artificial intelligence is already changing agriculture, research, and education, but stressed that technology must remain a tool, not a substitute for human judgment.

📌He closed by thanking RICA faculty, staff, partners, and families, and congratulated the Class of 2026 once again.

[𝗡𝗧𝗜𝗥𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗔𝗡𝗬𝗔 𝗗𝗮𝗺𝗮𝘀 @sir_damass]

🚨𝐑𝐈𝐂𝐀'𝐒 𝟒𝐓𝐇 𝐆𝐑𝐀𝐃𝐔𝐀𝐓𝐈𝐎𝐍 𝐂𝐄𝐑𝐄𝐌𝐎𝐍𝐘 - 𝐂𝐋𝐀𝐒𝐒 𝐎𝐅 𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟔

📌RICA is holding its 4th Academic Graduation, bringing together distinguished guests, graduates, their families, and RICA staff to mark the occasion.

📌A total of 82 students have been awarded Bachelor of Science degrees in RICA's four specializations: Animal Production, Crop Production Systems, Food Processing Systems, and Irrigation and Mechanization Systems.

📌This brings the total number of graduates across RICA's four graduation ceremonies to 321.

#Rwanda🇷🇼

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

President Kagame bid farewell to President @WadagniRomuald, marking the conclusion of his first Official Visit to Rwanda as President of the Republic of Benin.

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

President Kagame and President Romuald Wadagni of Benin, who is in Rwanda for a two-day visit, joined Kigali residents for an evening walk along the Nyarutarama Green Carpet.

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

Following their tête-à-tête, President Kagame and President Romuald Wadagni of Benin tasked their respective delegations with strengthening existing bilateral cooperation and advancing new areas of collaboration, with a focus on translating shared priorities into concrete outcomes.

President Kagame also hosted President @WadagniRomuald for an official lunch.

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

President Kagame receives President @WadagniRomuald as he begins his two-day Official Visit to Rwanda.

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

This evening in Kigali, President Kagame and President Romuald Wadagni of Benin took a walk along the Nyarutarama Green Carpet, one of the city’s dedicated green corridors designed to provide residents with safe and accessible spaces for walking, running, and other outdoor sports activities.

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

President Kagame received President @WadagniRomuald of Benin and his delegation at the Urugwiro Village. The two Heads of State are now holding a tête-à-tête meeting marking the start of the two day Official Visit to Rwanda.

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

This morning at Urugwiro Village, President Kagame welcomes President Romuald Wadagni @WadagniRomuald of the Republic of Benin, as he begins a two-day Official Visit to Rwanda, his first since taking office in May of this year. Follow the welcome ceremony live: https://t.co/MxLeUvLLDt