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[Kassy R. @Kassy_IR]

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[Dr Allan T. Moore @AllanTMoore]

A thread on why acknowledgement of the genocide against the Tutsti is still vital when discussing Rwandan development and politics today.
1. More than once in different contexts I have encountered similar versions of the same question: 'Why should I acknowledge the Genocide...

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

“Do we really accept that, as black people, we are somehow less human and inferior?

Accepting it is not simply a matter of saying “yes.” No one will ask you that question directly. You can even say “no,” but if you behave in the very ways that brought us to the kind of history we have lived through, then, in reality, you have accepted it. You have diminished yourself. And your actions become the evidence. The evidence is in doing the very things that others did, or in trying to justify them with explanations that should never be accepted.

There are no two ways about it. Good politics and a good ideology produce positive outcomes. Bad outcomes come from bad ideas. You do not need any other evidence.

Many of you are still young. You go abroad to study. Under normal circumstances, there is nothing they know that you cannot also learn. But you can come back having absorbed ideas without questions, ideas that take you away from who you are and try to turn you into something else, something that is not yours.

Whether those ideas are good or bad, there is one illness I do not think we will cure anytime soon: when, in your own mind, you stop being yourself and begin wishing you were somebody else. Why would you want to become someone else? To achieve what? In our own history, with everything we have been through, that is exactly how we lost our way.

And then you wait for someone from outside to tell you, “This is wrong,” and you immediately agree, without realizing that what is being condemned is you. It is about stripping you of your identity, and you willingly accepting it.” President Kagame | Unity Club Meeting.

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

President Kagame attends #AFCON25 final game.

[Sam @SamanthaTeta]

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.

[Lonzen Rugira @LonzenRugira]

What’s holding Africans back? President Kagame asked.

Prof. Murigande told Kagame that the main reason is that African leaders don’t care about their people. They seek to enrich themselves — to eat, and to eat alone. The president agreed with him, but he pressed further, asking why this problem seems peculiar to Africa.

Kagame doesn’t ask rhetorical questions. He has identified a problem and is involving Rwandans in finding a solution.

Here’s my take:

To overcome challenges like those faced by postcolonial societies, a people must rediscover a sense of collective self-worth. Usually, this comes from the memory of their past achievements— who they were as a people informs who they are and who they aspire to be.

While Africa was not the only region to experience colonization, it is one of the few where colonialism either erased the memory of past greatness or created new countries with no shared memory of such greatness.

Colonisation captured African minds. In that sense, although Africa was colonised last, it was colonised the worst.

Colonial education deepened this alienation, distorting African aspirations, turning them from collective to individual.

In the 1950s, the small group of “educated” African elites aspired to join the white world : the colonial administration. Today, with colonial education still intact and keeping African minds in chains, the elites it creates do not aspire to uplift their people; they aspire to join the global elite. They don’t seek to improve their own societies; they seek to escape from them.

Accordingly, these elites measure their self-worth by:

•how fluently they speak foreign languages,
•which foreign schools they send their children to,
•which foreign hospitals they can afford,
•how many houses they build, and how much money they invest abroad.

At the heart of this lies a quiet acceptance that Africans are somehow defective as a people, and that the only way to succeed is individually. Even those who once believed they could change things often abandon the quest for collective improvement once they grasp the scale of the effort it demands.

The kind of heavy lifting required for real transformation breeds a sense of hopelessness, one that pushes people from collective ambition toward individual greed.

So, the individual’s aspiration becomes to join the global bourgeoisie. But these are strategies of self-evacuation. They are attempts to flee backwardness by moving from the rural village to the capital, then on to the enlightened colonial metropolis, and ultimately to disappear into cosmopolitan anonymity - a form of self erasure rather than a search for self restoration.

This journey became the measure of progress. Those who remain in Africa do so with one foot already out (through dual citizenship or close connections to the representatives of their desired metropoles) for themselves, and especially for their children.

Although Kagame brings up this topic, it has been a theme he turns to whenever he notices that some ethic is creeping in amongst the leaders, only that this time he is more specific.

For example, while he has been teaching agaciro as a form of mental decolonization, most people over the years understood agaciro merely as a material pursuit.

Yet agaciro is, at its core, about retracing and reclaiming the memory of self-worth and therefore the basis for collective pursuit.

[Paul Kagame @PaulKagame]

If one makes an issue of noise of an empty drum, they also have a problem! Better to let it pass or walk away from it !!!

[FPR-Inkotanyi @rpfinkotanyi]

Umuryango FPR - Inkotanyi wifurije Abanyarwanda bose Umunsi mwiza wo Gukunda Igihugu.

Uyu munsi utubere umwanya mwiza wo kuzirikana uruhare rwacu mu iterambere ry’Igihugu cyacu, turushaho gusigasira ubumwe bwacu, kubumbatira umutekano no kurinda ibyagezweho.

[Kassy R. @Kassy_IR]

We all seek a love worth fighting for. That means fighting together to preserve that love, and not against each other to prove a point.

“Often, this will mean choosing to come home; weathering passing storms, refusing to jump ship, for what we value the most remains onboard.”♥️

[First Lady of Rwanda @FirstLadyRwanda]

“Perhaps it is my affection for the youth…perhaps it is simply that I love ‘love’. But the wellness of the Rwandan family unit – our youth’s cocoon – be it in health as in personal fulfillment, will always be my driving purpose. I may have voiced this before but repeat it proudly: we must aim for Rwandan families to be whole so that Rwanda, a country healing scars both physical and of the soul, can also be whole.”

With these words, First Lady Mrs Jeannette Kagame reflects on the essence of family as the foundation of a thriving nation.

Read the full op-ed “A Couple’s First Song: A Lifelong Dance” here: https://t.co/FVBaS3vYcW

[Serge Mutabazi @PAINTEDBLVCKK]

“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them”

[Jonathan Beloff, PhD @JewswithRwanda]

Lt General Innocent Kabandana was perhaps one of the most important people in my life.

Rwanda lost a great one today.

Since meeting in 2012, I have relied on him as a friend, mentor and father figure. I wrote about his impact on me below.

https://t.co/j34mvSngC7

[Mathilde Mukantabana @AmbMukantabana]

Today marks the end of an extraordinary chapter in the life of a truly remarkable individual, Lt.Gen. Innocent Kabandana! I feel deeply saddened to lose a friend, yet I'm grateful for the time we shared.
As Defense Attaché at the Embassy in Washington, D.C., during my early days as an ambassador, Lt. Gen. Innocent Kabandana was more than just a colleague – he was a trusted partner and sounding board. His strategic mind, diplomatic finesse, and unwavering dedication to Rwanda embodied the very values of a Rwandan officer.
What struck me most about Lt.Gen. Kabandana was his unrelenting pursuit of knowledge and growth. all for the benefit of #Rwanda!
Even in his most challenging moments, he remained grateful to his country leadership for its support and care. His love for Rwanda and for his family was boundless, and it was reciprocated tenfold. His wife Sabine stood by him through thick and thin, exemplifying the true meaning of "until death do us part." Together, they inspired everyone around them with their unwavering faith and resilience.
Lt. Gen. Innocent Kabandana legacy lives on through his wife Sabine and his children – Monia, Brave, Brandon, and Noria – who have grown into fantastic individuals. May they continue to draw strength from the eternal flame of love and dedication that their father embodied. 🙏💗

[Noel Kambanda @NoelKambanda]

That 9-year-old child who was cut into pieces inside Karubamba Parish after a grenade was thrown by Interahamwe killers, and whom you personally picked up carefully as he was still bleeding, still remembers the first words you told him while carrying him in your arms and giving him first aid to stop the bleeding.

Today, he is a grown man and the head of a family.

This is one of the many acts of ubumuntu that characterized you and other RPA soldiers of the 157th Battalion from Kiziguro, Kayonza, Rukara, Kabarondo, Nyarubuye, Bugesera, and beyond.

RIP Afande Lt Gen Innocent Kabandana.

[Serge Mutabazi @PAINTEDBLVCKK]

As a kid growing up in Nyamirambo post genocide and knowing nothing about my country’s history, I used to think my country was the poorest, most underdeveloped country in the world, and I always idealized the West and always hoped that I could run away to live either in America or Europe.

My family always told me about the struggle and what it took to liberate us and build unity, but it was always hard to wrap my head around that.

Then came tarmac in my neighborhood (something I never thought possible). That’s when I began to see what I had that I never had before, instead of only chasing what others had (which my country would later give me still).

From there, life only went up:

- I could now walk safely at night and our businesses would operate without fear of looting.

- Children from poor families finally got a shot at Education, and through Mutuelle de Santé everybody has access to healthcare services.

- In a blink of an eye, my country was the 2nd in Africa for ease of doing business.

- My mom, my aunts, and my big sisters were given economic independence and made leaders in their communities.

- Life expectancy skyrocketed and my grandpa got to live up to 96 years.

- Me and my brothers and sisters now have platforms to express ourselves, find careers, and shape Rwanda’s future rather than being excluded.

Adui is all over social media working overtime trying to turn the youth against our country,
but with all logic and common sense, how can you turn your back against a country who gave you life where there was nowhere to call home?
Do you really think you’ll find better than Rwanda in the enemy’s nest?

But well, they can bark all they want, but that’s all they’ll ever do.

[First Lady of Rwanda @FirstLadyRwanda]

Video: First Lady Mrs Jeannette Kagame joins the 20th Gorilla Naming Ceremony | Musanze, 5 September 2025

#KwitaIzina20
#VisitRwanda

[Imbuto Foundation @Imbuto]

Dear Chairperson,

It’s a joy to celebrate you!

You lead by example, and yours is one we strive to transmit through our work. Thank you for the unwavering strength, the kindness, the wisdom, the culture, the shared celebration dances, and most importantly, the generous trust, in our ability to bring your incredible vision to life.

Happy Birthday Your Excellency @FirstLadyRwanda!

[Serge Mutabazi @PAINTEDBLVCKK]

I have met His Excellency @PaulKagame in every moment of my 26 year old life in Rwanda. For many of us, we live what he lives for, in the reality we call ‘everyday’.

When I step out at 3am for a morning run and feel completely safe; that is #HisExcellency

When I travel across the country on smooth, well maintained tarmac roads; that is #HisExcellency

When dignity replaces dependency, and we speak of solutions instead of charity; that is #HisExcellency

When my little brothers and sisters attend school equipped with laptops and dreams; that is #HisExcellency

When electricity and clean water reach even the most rural communities; that is #HisExcellency

When young people access opportunities through innovation hubs, sports centers, and vocational training; that is #HisExcellency

When our mothers give birth in well equipped hospitals, assisted by trained health workers, and no longer fear dying in labor; that is #HisExcellency

And when I travel abroad and say “I am Rwandan” with pride; that pride is built on the foundation of leadership, dignity, and vision of #HisExcellency

Meeting His Excellency @Paulkagame is not a moment, it is a daily experience woven into the progress and security we now often take for granted.

[Olivier J.P. Nduhungirehe @onduhungirehe]

"Que condamne-t-on exactement ? L'idée qu'un pays africain puisse, comme tant d'autres, construire son développement par le tourisme et le sport ? Derrière cette campagne, ce ne sont pas des slogans, mais des emplois, des revenus, des vies. Guides, hôteliers, cuisiniers, chauffeurs, serveurs, agents aéroportuaires et tant d'autres métiers... : ils sont des centaines de milliers à vivre d'un secteur devenu, en dix ans, l'un des moteurs économiques du pays. Pourtant, voilà les réflexes du néocolonialisme : celui qui entend toujours juger ce qui serait convenable ou non pour les pays africains".

Excellente tribune d'@HerveBerville et de Sonia Rolland sur #VisitRwanda🇷🇼

PSG : quand le soft power africain dérange

https://t.co/6D5COAPO9f

[First Lady of Rwanda @FirstLadyRwanda]

Nyakubahwa Madamu Jeannette Kagame abwira #InkubitozIcyeza zahembwe:

"Ni koko muri Ishema ry’Abakobwa, mukaba n’ishema ryacu ababyeyi n’abarezi banyu. Abenshi muri mwe mumaze kuba bakuru, muri mu mirimo itandukanye, ndetse hari na byinshi mwatangiye gukora, byo gukomeza gufashanya hagati yanyu. 
Iyi sabukuru y’imyaka 20 tuyizihize tunatekereza indi iri imbere aho ikwiye kuzadusanga. Ikwiye gusanga dufite abakobwa n’abahungu ari nabo babyeyi b’ejo, ari Abanyarwanda bashoboye, kuko twasobanukiwe ko kurera abato bacu neza, atari bo gusa bigirira akamaro, ahubwo ari inyungu z’umuryango n’igihugu muri rusange. 
Niyo mpamvu rero n’abana b’abahungu nabo bakeneye guherekezwa no kugirwa inama kugirango batere imbere mu bumenyi, imico, n’imyifatire.  
Nk’Inkubito z’Icyeza, ni ngombwa ko namwe ubwanyu muba mwikwije, mufite ‘package’ ihagije, kugira ngo muzabashe kurerera u Rwanda, abana bafite ubwenge n’umutima by’Umunyarwanda twifuza, uzabasha kutugeza ku cyerekezo cyacu 2050."

#BPG20 #InspiringGirls

[Serge Mutabazi @PAINTEDBLVCKK]

DRC is a controlled chaos. The mess is profitable.
No clear laws = cheap minerals.
No security = no accountability.
The world’s tecnology is built on Congo’s suffering, and no one in power wants that to change.

70% of the world’s cobalt comes from DRC; every electric car, smartphone, and missile system use it.
But instead of building up Congo, global powers just fund sides, fuel wars, and keep the price of extraction low. It’s not incompetence. It’s strategy.

Any leader who tries to bring order to Congo becomes a threat, not just to rebels, but to multinationals and foreign powers. Stability means fair contracts, and fair contracts mean lower profits; so instability becomes policy.

Tshisekedi bet on the West and he only got praise without backup, sanctions without support, and media that only reacts when it’s too late. He played the obedient card, but even obedient leaders get discarded when they stop being useful.

Rwanda’s role is controversial because it disrupts business as usual. Western powers don’t mind chaos, they mind control and Rwanda offers one thing most of Congo doesn’t; stability, investment, and follow through.

DRC isn’t just a conflict zone; it’s a geopolitical chessboard where global powers fight over influence and lazy leaders blame others. But the people?
They’re watching, waiting, and tired of being the sacrifice behind someone else’s deal.

[Imbuto Foundation @Imbuto]

This May, we proudly celebrate 20 years of inspiring girls to excel!

For two decades, Imbuto Foundation has recognised and supported girls pursuing academic excellence through the Promotion of Girls’ Education campaign.

To mark this milestone, every day we will be sharing inspiring journeys of girls who were once awarded and are now making a remarkable impact in their communities - from classrooms to boardrooms.

These stories are a powerful testament to what’s possible when girls are empowered to thrive.

#BPG20 #InspiringGirls #ImbutoEmpowers

[Serge Mutabazi @PAINTEDBLVCKK]

Igitero cy'interahamwe ku ya 22 Mata 1994