“This course was designed to enhance your ability to navigate complex and sometimes, seemingly impossible situations. There are, however, certain qualities that it cannot give you that you must personally cultivate.
The first is courage. You will not always have guarantees, and for some, this can create paralysis. Courage is what enables a leader to act decisively despite uncertainty and competing pressures.
The second is judgement. As your responsibilities increase, so will the consequences of your decisions. Good judgement is developed through experience, collaboration and the humility to learn from mistakes and adjust course when necessary.
The third is purpose, which comes from knowing precisely what you are fighting for. For Rwanda, that purpose is anchored in protecting our people and sovereignty, while advancing the continued transformation of our country.” President Kagame
President Kagame, Commander-in-Chief of the Rwanda Defence Force, presided over the graduation of 108 Senior Officers from Rwanda and across the continent and beyond, who formed the 14th intake of the Senior Command and Staff Course, at RDF Command and Staff College, Nyakinama.
Today at Urugwiro Village, President Kagame received a delegation of 19 members of the Young Presidents' Organization (YPO) and their spouses, led by Rogelio Romero, Chapter Representative of YPO Gold Panama and CEO of Concretex Panama. YPO is a global leadership community, connecting over 38,000 business leaders across over 130 countries. The Panama Chapter brings together senior executives from prominent Panamanian firms and investment groups.
Discussions centred on Rwanda's transformation, the growing entrepreneurship ecosystem as well as opportunities for business and economic partnership between Rwanda and Panama.
President Kagame on Africa.
“What has made other people rich are the same things that would make Africa rich. Because Africa is endowed with resources.”
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When Arab ambassadors told Lavrov to “stop Iran,” he replied:
“Have you condemned what the United States and Israel did? For example, have you condemned the death of 170 schoolgirls?”
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“If M23 is Congolese, how did it become a Rwandan problem or Kagame’s problem? Since M23 are Congolese, it is a Congolese problem, and therefore we need a Congolese solution.
I have never seen citizens with issues against their own government but engage in dialogue to resolve them.”
— William Ruto
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President Kagame met with President Mamadi Doumbouya of the Republic of Guinea, Ndaba Nkosinathi Gaolathe, Vice President of Botswana, and other private sector leaders on the sidelines of the Africa CEO Forum 2026.
This morning at Kigali International Airport, President Kagame saw off President Mamadi Doumbouya of the Republic of Guinea at the conclusion of his visit to Rwanda.
During his visit, President Doumbouya attended the opening of the Africa CEO Forum 2026 and held bilateral talks with President Kagame.
On the sidelines of the Africa CEO Forum, President Kagame met with President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema of Gabon, who is in Rwanda to participate in the forum.
The two leaders discussed ways to further strengthen bilateral cooperation through expanded economic partnerships, increased trade, and the exchange of knowledge and skills, among other areas of mutual interest.
“We can’t just be people who are waiting to be ripped off, by somebody who is shrewd enough and has the power, we must be able to say, “No”. President Kagame | Africa CEO Forum 2026
This evening during #ACF2026, President Kagame attended a Presidential Panel featuring President Bola Ahmed Tinubu @officialABAT of Nigeria and President Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema @oliguinguema of Gabon discussing, “The Sovereign Test: Can Africa Turn Continental Alliances into Assets?”
🎙️ @PaulKagame took the Africa CEO Forum stage and spoke plainly about what much of the world still finds difficult to name.
🗣️ His charge was clear. The same global powers that lecture Africa on democracy and human rights are, with the other hand, stripping the continent of what it owns. Sanctions, he reminded the room, are not always the instruments of principle they claim to be; more often they reward the highest bidder, falling on whoever offers less and sparing whoever extracts more. The cynicism, he noted, is not new. In an older century, kings handed territories to their in-laws and children to administer as they pleased, and today the same logic operates under different vocabulary, with a foreign power simply telling a chosen proxy to go and take whatever it wants from a given region.
💎 The deeper point landed hardest. For too long, Africa has played the role of a continent waiting to be ripped off by anyone shrewd enough and powerful enough to arrive at its door, and that posture has to end. "We must be able to say no," the Rwandan President insisted, before urging African leaders, public and private, to begin assigning their own value to their own assets rather than accepting whatever value others choose to recognise.
🌍 It is the question this year's ACF places at the very centre of its programme. Pan-African ownership, resource sovereignty, and the refusal to mistake openness for vulnerability are no longer aspirational language. They are the operating conditions for whatever African economic future emerges from the next decade. Kagame's intervention was not a lament about the world as it is, but a call to the continent's leadership to stop negotiating from a position of permanent disadvantage.
Kigali, 14–15 May 2026.
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