Proud to see three #VisitRwanda partners qualifying for the UEFA Champions League semi-finals! The performances of @Atleti, @Arsenal and @PSG_inside have shown consistency, excellence and resolve, and we look forward to the games ahead!
I held two conversations this week with President Ramaphosa on the situation in Eastern DRC, including earlier today. What has been said about these conversations in the media by South African officials and President Ramaphosa himself contains a lot of distortion, deliberate attacks, and even lies. If words can change so much from a conversation to a public statement, it says a lot about how these very important issues are being managed.
A few important clarifications for the record:
1. The Rwanda Defence Force is an army, not a militia.
2. SAMIDRC is not a peacekeeping force, and it has no place in this situation. It was authorized by SADC as a belligerent force engaging in offensive combat operations to help the DRC Government fight against its own people, working alongside genocidal armed groups like FDLR which target Rwanda, while also threatening to take the war to Rwanda itself.
3. SAMIDRC displaced a true peacekeeping force, the East African Community Regional Force, and this contributed to the failure of the negotiation processes.
4. President Ramaphosa has never given a "warning" of any kind, unless it was delivered in his local language which I do not understand. He did ask for support to ensure the South African force has adequate electricity, food and water, which we shall help communicate.
5. President Ramaphosa confirmed to me that M23 did not kill the soldiers from South Africa, FARDC did.
6. If South Africa wants to contribute to peaceful solutions, that is well and good, but South Africa is in no position to take on the role of a peacemaker or mediator. And if South Africa prefers confrontation, Rwanda will deal with the matter in that context any day.
Hundreds of white mercenaries, who fought for Congo forces, surrender to Rwanda after M23 onslaught. They will be kicked out of the country and deported back home
#Rwanda has connected 100% of health centers and 84% of schools to electricity. What did it take to achieve this, and what can other countries learn from this experience? Find out: https://t.co/wXFFsLa7rK
#Rwanda 🇷🇼 : Quelle responsabilité de la France lors du #génocide contre les Tutsis ? Et aujourd'hui dans l'est du #Congo ? Nous avons reçu, l'ancien officier et l'auteur de "Rwanda, la fin du silence", Guillaume Ancel pour répondre à cette question.⤵️
Hello Dad, it’s been 30 years now and guess the coincidence, the family expanded and I have a baby the same age as you left me(6 months), isn’t that nice? And We gave her your name She is Mashyaka and we added Aganze. Twarashibutse kandi turakomeye. Ruhuka utuje mubyeyi turiho.
“President Kagame’s record speaks for itself.”
@YolandeMakolo, spokesperson for the Rwandan government, defends the president’s 98 per cent share of the vote.
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Today #Rwanda's debut eurobond matures. Would’ve been worry but good planning by gov’t only $60.6 million repaid today (from $400 million originally borrowed) 1/few