“If the blame game, nice speeches, lies, being shameless, were the solution to this problem, it would have ended long ago. We wouldn’t have this problem. We have people who tell lies without any reason.
How can FDLR not exist in the minds of some people? Or why is it something that is supposed to be trivialized? When you trivialize that; you trivialize my history and I am not going to accept it. It doesn’t matter who you are.
I am not seeking any favor from anybody in this room to be given permission for me to live or for my people to live? Absolutely not. I will live by the fact that it is my right. Just that.
So, when I am listening to some people saying these things; when does Congo take responsibility for its own mess? How does Congo think all their problems come from outside, and therefore they outsource solutions for their problems? Rwanda has nothing to do with Congo’s problems. We have our own problems to deal with. Congo is too big for Rwanda to carry on its back.
As I told you, we are a small country, we are a poor country, but when it comes to the right to live, don’t you be mistaken. I am not begging, I will not beg anyone.” President Kagame | AU Peace and Security Council Meeting on the security situation in Eastern DRC.
Governor @rwangombwajRW: “Bank of Kigali has leveraged AI technology to facilitate remote account opening. Through this service, customers can verify their identity by cross-referencing their photographs with information stored at the National Identification Agency. The solution has a 99% accuracy rate, significantly reducing the barriers for rural communities to open accounts and access financial services without needing to visit physical bank branches.”
A few points on recent developments in the Marburg response:
- We’ve sequenced the virus genomes from three branches of a single cluster.
- Using genomic tools, we found that all sequences share a single zoonotic origin, meaning the virus jumped from animal to human just once.