Ibrahim Byiringiro

Research & Data Analyst. #BigData #Statistics. All tweets == personal views. Retweets != endorsements.

[Ibrahim Byiringiro @IbrahimByiringi]

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[Ibrahim Byiringiro @IbrahimByiringi]

@kayagnes3 @Atayeshe @gakossojeanclau @CongoUnfpa @dienekeita @SennenHounton @UN_Congo @UNFPA_WCARO @ADiallo2018 Félicitation Dr.Agnes!

[Yolande Makolo 🇷🇼 @YolandeMakolo]

Bravo Itahiwacu @BruceMelodie - a Made in Rwanda success story. I enjoyed this interview - check it out.

https://t.co/17YtqwOehR

[Dr. Dash @dr_dash250]

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Africa watch this.

If you don’t take their aid, they threaten you😳😳

Also if you think Rwanda depends on aid, plz watch this.

We are the media now, please spread the news

[Janvier POPOTE @JanvierPopote]

Uncovering the Truth Behind Eastern DRC’s Crisis with @CoulibalyBojana.

🔴 In this insightful interview, Bojana Coulibaly sheds light on the true origins of #M23, arguing that it was not born in a vacuum, but as a result of unchecked anti-Tutsi genocide ideology and the DRC’s failure to protect its people from violent and destructive militias.

💥 The genocidaires, who fled to Zaire after committing the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda, brought weapons and propagated the Bantu vs. Nilotic ideology—leading to the mass killing of Tutsi and Banyamulenge communities.

❌ The focus on M23 obscures the bigger picture—the hundreds of negative forces operating in DRC with total impunity and the long-standing governance failures that allowed these groups to thrive.

🔻 MONUSCO, instead of fulfilling its mission to protect civilians and bring peace, has fallen short, doing the very opposite.

[Bojana Coulibaly, Ph.D. @CoulibalyBojana]

#DRC #Rubaya #M23
"Are #M23 and Rwanda 'plundering #coltan' in Rubaya?"
A report.

My main findings:
- There are NO #M23 soldiers near the mines.
- #M23 does not participate in any aspect of the coltan mining business.
- There is NO Rwandan presence in Rubaya.
- Rubaya is NOT a "blood mineral" mine.
- Rubaya does not supply the world electronics industry.

➡️ According to public statements, witness testimony, and field observation, a certain number of actions have been implemented by #M23 leadership :
1) Wazalendo & armed militias that were responsible for the violence in Rubaya for decades, have been neutralized. Security has been put in place.
2) NO weapons, NO children, NO pregnant women allowed, anywhere near the mine.
3) Daily rate increase from $3 to $5 (#M23 has imposed this minimum wage to the mine operators to be paid to the workers as a daily base rate. This is before what the miners earn per quantity of coltan extracted).

➡️In addition, our findings indicate that:
- Rubaya is a town of more than 100,000 residents with their families. It is not a mine. The coltan mine is 30 minutes away (by motorbike) and between 1 to 2 hours by foot. No car can access the mine.
- The principal economic mode of sustenance of Rubaya residents is coltan mining. Like other regions where families and communities depend on cattle herding, agriculture, or specific industries, the survival of Rubaya residents depends on coltan mining. This is the equivalent of entire towns in France where every family cultivates and harvests grapes for the wine industry of that region. Rubaya families extract, process, and sell coltan. Coltan is currently sold between $30 and $40/kg on the world market. This is after processing it, and profit will depend on the mineral content quality. This is to say that this artisanal mine requires tones and tones of raw coltan to be extracted and processed manually in order to achieve the quality of coltan sold on the market. Unlike the wine producers in France who have access to high tech industrial equipment for their wine industry, the Rubaya coltan mine extraction and processing are exclusively done manually.
- Thus, the artisanal nature of this mine, where every aspect of the extraction and processing of coltan is manual, and the absence of a road between Rubaya and Goma where the coltan is sold on the market, makes it impossible for this mine to be considered as the number 1 supply of the world electronics industry.
➡️This argument, used by the #DRC government, human rights organization like @HRW, the United Nations represented by @MONUSCO and @UN_BintouKeita, government officials in Europe, and the mainstream and social media, constitutes a fallacy which seeks to blame the neighboring Rwanda, Congolese Rwandophones in North Kivu, and the Banyamulenge in South Kivu, as well as #M23.
➡️It diverts attention from the #DRC failed state led by Felix Tshisekedi, who has been incapable, like his predecessors or the last 30 years, to provide security, economic, and financial stability to its people.
➡️The vast majority of people living in Rubaya are native Congolese Kinyarwanda speakers. This is the result of the colonial borders that were drawn during the Berlin Conference in 1884-5 by European countries including Germany, Belgium, the United Kingdom, and France. Those borders separated Rwandophone speakers accros several countries. Thus, Rubaya residents are Congolese, who speak Kinyarwanda, which is their mother tongue.
➡️The current "sanctions" campaign against Rwanda, accused of "stealing strategic minerals from Rubaya" and "destabilizing DRC" is led by the same countries who drew those colonial borders in the Great Lakes region in 1884-5, which is the root cause of the DRC conflict.
➡️ The UK, Belgium, and Germany should instead seek to pacify the region by putting all their efforts and means to fight against tribalism and ethnic divisionism which their countries have created, and which is the mode of governance of the DRC regime that they are protecting today, at the expense of Rwandan Tutsi who were at the verge of total annihilation in 1994, and Congolese Tutsi victim of systemic killings and persecution in DRC since 1994.

➡️ Rubaya residents have openly and eagerly expressed to us that their security is finally guaranteed by #M23 today and that they are hopeful that a new era where peace prevails has began.
(Photo and video credit to @TEDDYMAZINA)

[Rutendo Matinyarare @matinyarare]

𝗡𝗢 𝗠𝗢𝗥𝗘 𝗗𝗜𝗦𝗜𝗡𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗠𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗧𝗢 𝗣𝗨𝗦𝗛 𝗢𝗨𝗥 𝗚𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗡𝗠𝗘𝗡𝗧𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗗𝗘𝗣𝗟𝗢𝗬 𝗦𝗢𝗟𝗗𝗜𝗘𝗥𝗦 𝗧𝗢 𝗙𝗜𝗚𝗛𝗧 𝗖𝗢𝗡𝗚𝗢’𝗦 𝗪𝗔𝗥𝗦. 𝗣𝗘𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗜𝗦 𝗧𝗛𝗘 𝗢𝗡𝗟𝗬 𝗪𝗔𝗬.

We now want negotiations, peace and dialogue and will no longer enable or aid propaganda that fuels wars to protect Congolese to hold onto Leopold’s colonial loot and tribal divisions.

[Senator Shehu Sani @ShehuSani]

I have noticed that some European Politicians have started a serious campaign to criminalise President Kagame and destabilise Rwanda by using the problem of the DRC.They have always been looking for such opportunity.They suddenly woke up to love DRC after their failure to help the country for decades.While Africa must take the front lead in searching for peace in the DRC,we must all collectively stand against their ulterior motives for the destruction of Rwanda.

[Qatar News Agency @QNAEnglish]

#QNA_Infographic |
Highlights of the #Cabinet_Meeting Today, Wednesday, February 12, 2025
#QNA #Qatar

[🇿🇦#SouthAfricanFirst🇿🇦 @Roel6825008]

Most people we blame #M23Rebels but after Listening to him 👇#SANDF must come back home.#Ramaphosa sellout our brothers and sisters

[FC Bayern @FCBayernEN]

FC Bayern and Visit Rwanda agree partnership until 2028 🤝

@Rwanda_Sports @visitrwanda_now

[Yolande Makolo 🇷🇼 @YolandeMakolo]

Good news: Rwanda,Team Europe and partners pioneer an additional EUR 300 million financing to crowd in private investment and build climate resilience following Resilience and Sustainability Facility arrangement with the International Monetary Fund.
https://t.co/pNTQRn6y0q

[Arsenal @Arsenal]

#ad 🤔 How well do our Gunners know sports played in Rwanda? 🇷🇼

❓ Martin, Granit and Eddie test each other’s knowledge with some help from special sporting guests.

🤝 @VisitRwanda_now

[Albert Rudatsimburwa 🇷🇼 @albcontact]

Yesterday we Celebrated
#AfricaDay

#Kagame, Africa’s knight in shining armour
Africa is worryingly heavily dependent on the benevolence of its former colonial powers to either provide financial resources or human capital to extricate it from this abyss
https://t.co/nRVBnBfYRn

[Ibrahim Byiringiro @IbrahimByiringi]

IQ alone isn’t enough if not used with rational and emotional brains to be able to make good decisions in lifetime.

[Ibrahim Byiringiro @IbrahimByiringi]

Emotion is so crucial to effective thought, both in making wise decisions or allowing us to think clearly. EI by Daniel G.

[Ibrahim Byiringiro @IbrahimByiringi]

@dLabTz @TungaMahadia @obakari2011 @AgapitiM Congratulations @TungaMahadia, well deserved!

[Paris Saint-Germain @PSG_English]

Following the successful first three years of working together, Paris Saint-Germain and ⁦@visitrwanda_now⁩ have renewed their partnership through to 2025.

[Paris Saint-Germain @PSG_inside]

Après trois années de collaboration fructueuse, le @PSG_inside et @visitrwanda_now ont renouvelé en début de saison leur partenariat jusqu’en 2025.

[East African Community @jumuiya]

"I am pleased  to note that EAC Partner  States  have  waived visa requirements for EAC citizens, leading  to an increase  movement of persons  across  borders  for employment, trade,education  tourism & medical services"- EAC SG @pmathuki