Today we celebrate Rwanda’s Liberation Day, a turning point that restored dignity, hope, and unity. We honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice.
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"The composition of this panel, bringing together a former member of the ex-FAR, General (Rtd) Ibingira from the RPA/RPF, and a former member of the FDLR, and what they have shared, reflects just how complex, diverse, and layered our history is. It is from that history that we should draw the lessons to move our country forward, in the way we want and through our own efforts.
Let me say this: a great deal of what has been said on this panel has been valuable, and the discussions around it have only reinforced those lessons. One thing I wanted to pick up on is what Ibingira mentioned about those ungrateful people who insult and disparage others.
My advice is simple: do not waste your energy fighting those who insult you. Put your energy into building, building yourselves, and building your country, so that insults and the people who make them become insignificant and have no impact on you. Ignore them, and keep doing what you are supposed to do. That is what matters.
Your response should be your actions. Eventually, those who thrive on insults grow tired and stay hostages of history." President Kagame | Unity Club Meeting.
“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.
“Leaders often should not look at themselves alone. They are supposed to come last, not first, in sharing the benefits that come from doing things well.
Too often, however, it is evident that some people put their own interests first.
Many even add arrogance to it, forgetting that ours is a service to the nation, not a contest between one person and another. The interests of the country must always come first. And when you serve the country well, the truth is that you too are among those who benefit. What matters is for people to see their duty that way.” President Kagame | Swearing-in Ceremony of New Government Officials
President Kagame also met with Sama Bilbao y León, Director General of the World Nuclear Association; Sylvie Bermann, President of the World Nuclear Exhibition; Serge Ekue, President of the West African Development Bank; Daniel Poneman, Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations; and Ian Farnan, CEO of Cambridge Atom Works, who are attending the Nuclear Energy Innovation Summit for Africa (NEISA -2026).
They discussed the role of nuclear energy in expanding access to reliable power, supporting industrial growth, and unlocking opportunities in Rwanda, and across the African continent.
On the sidelines of the Nuclear Energy Innovation Summit for Africa (NEISA), Rwanda and the United States of America (USA) signed an MoU on Strategic Civil Nuclear Cooperation.
The agreement was signed by Minister of State @UstaNcusta and Ms. Renee Sonderman, Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary (PDAS) in the Bureau of Arms Control and Nonproliferation at the U.S. Department of State.
This afternoon at the Kigali Convention Centre, President Kagame held a bilateral meeting with H.E. Samia Suluhu Hassan @SuluhuSamia, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, who is in Kigali attending the Nuclear Energy Innovation Summit for Africa #NEISA2026.
On the sidelines of the Summit, the two Heads of State witnessed the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding on cooperation in the energy sector between the Republic of Rwanda and the United Republic of Tanzania, further committing to advancing shared energy development goals.
“These pressures, that we get from the rest of the world, Africa is being reminded to wake up. So the pressures are not entirely bad, they force Africa to look within for what we have. To actually do what we need to do to find a good place for us in this world of those injustices and other challenges.
I want people to know that each one of the people in this room and beyond, have something to contribute and to benefit from, benefit each other, and the continent has a lot that is not being put to good use and it is up to us - it is not people from anywhere else, to be able to raise ourselves to that level where we should be.” President Kagame | Opening Ceremony of the Africa CEO Forum 2026 #ACF2026
This morning in Gaborone, President Kagame toured Diamond Trading Company Botswana (DTC Botswana), a 50/50 joint venture between the Government of Botswana and De Beers. DTC Botswana is the world’s largest and most sophisticated rough diamond sorting and valuing operation, with the capacity to sort up to 45 million carats annually.
Thank you to my sister President @SuluhuSamia for the warm welcome to Tanzania and for the productive discussions.
Rwanda and Tanzania are not only neighbors but brotherly countries bound by history and a shared goal of prosperity for our people. Rwanda remains committed to building on this strong foundation by deepening our bilateral cooperation across trade, investment, infrastructure, logistics, energy, and regional integration.
I look forward to continuing our collaboration to achieve tangible results for our citizens and advance the East African Community.
This evening at Parc des Princes in Paris, President Kagame attended the UEFA Champions League semi-final, where defending champions and Visit Rwanda global partner Paris Saint-Germain delivered a 5–4 victory over Bayern Munich.
Warm congratulations to #VisitRwanda partner Paris Saint-Germain @PSG_inside on securing qualification to the UEFA semi-finals. Strong performance and a well-deserved result! Wishing you the best in the next stage!
Today we commemorate the 32nd anniversary of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi and begin the official commemoration week.
Remember - Unite - Renew
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