This evening in Salzburg, President Kagame attended the 2026 @UEFA Super Cup, bringing together two Visit Rwanda partners: Paris Saint-Germain @PSG_inside, the reigning UEFA Champions League winners, and Aston Villa @AVFCOfficial, the UEFA Europa League winners and Visit Rwanda’s newest football partner.
Happy Birthday to our Chairperson @FirstLadyRwanda!
Today, we celebrate your exceptional leadership, dedication and the inspiration you continue to bring to us all. Thank you for guiding and inspiring us every step of the way.
Wishing you good health, joy, and continued success ahead.
Imbuto Family
Today at Urugwiro Village, President Kagame met with Dr. Pradeep K. Khosla, Chairperson of the University of Rwanda Board, and Mr. Ivan Murenzi, Vice-Chairperson. They discussed the University of Rwanda's strategic direction and continued efforts to strengthen the quality of teaching, research and innovation, while building the skills needed to support Rwanda’s socioeconomic development.
This afternoon at Urugwiro Village, President Kagame received a bipartisan United States Congressional Delegation led by Representative Brett Guthrie @RepGuthrie, Chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce.
Their discussions focused on Rwanda’s transformation journey, as well as ways to deepen bilateral cooperation in areas of mutual interest, including health, energy, and investment.
The delegation included Representatives Troy Carter @RepTroyCarter, Morgan Griffith @RepMGriffith, Russ Fulcher @RepRussFulcher, Jay Obernolte @JayObernolte, Cliff Bentz @RepBentz, Craig Goldman @RepCraigGoldman, and Julie Fedorchak @RepFedorchak.
This afternoon at Urugwiro Village, President Kagame received letters of credence from newly appointed envoys; Ms. Nasra Bint Salim Bin Mohammed Al-Hashmi, Ambassador of the Sultanate of Oman to Rwanda, and Ms. Olivia Charlotte Owen, High Commissioner of New Zealand to Rwanda.
"Discipline is important. It is what helps you decide what you want, how you go about achieving it, and why it matters. It guides you to make the right choices, to respect others, to respect yourself, and to keep seeking knowledge. When you have knowledge, discipline gives even greater value to what you know. It keeps you focused on your purpose instead of allowing yourself to drift into things that do not build you, but can instead destroy you.
That is why coming here for this training, being part of this Itorero, and everything you have learned is meant to instill discipline in you. If you embrace it, it will take you far. If you disregard it or fail to apply it as you should, it may take you only so far before your progress comes to an end." President Kagame | Indangamirwa 16th Cohort #MeetThePresident
“As young people, we need you. We love you. But first and foremost, take care of yourselves.
This religion of alcohol, I think people even recruit others into it. Alcohol is killing you. It’s killing young people. The older ones are already gone. It has killed so many older people like us. Others are already on that same path and seem unable to stop.
But I want to warn you and beg you: everything we have been talking about, what brought you here, and the plans we have for our country, this thing will kill you before you realise your ambitions.” President Kagame |#MeetThePresident Indangamirwa 16th Cohort
"Among the many things you are taking away with you, leave this place with one thing firmly in your minds: You are now builders of something. You are problem solvers. You are innovators. And you are also going to contribute
to this nation, the national effort.
Rwanda will not be developed by people coming from somewhere else, zero. If you thought there is anything like that, quickly change your mind. It is not like that. It doesn't happen like that. You must be the one to do it." President Kagame | Indangamirwa 16 #MeetThePresident
"When we were living as refugees, we went to many places telling the international community that Rwanda was our home and that we wanted to return. Some people would come and raise the matter with the government that was in power here. The response they received was that Rwanda was too small and that there was no place for us to go. Imagine being told there is no place for you in the very country you came from. You cannot tell someone to remain where they are, to spend their entire life as a refugee, and for their children to grow up as refugees as well.
I used to tell people, even at the beginning of our liberation struggle, that whatever treatment we received in the countries where we lived, they were not the people I had a grievance against. After all, it was my own country that had denied me the right to return because it claimed there was no room for me. The people I had a grievance against were those who had the responsibility to guarantee my rights in my own country, but instead denied them. Those were the people we had to confront. And that is exactly what happened." President Kagame | Indangamirwa 16th Cohort #MeetThePresident