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[Monica Juma @Monica_Juma_]

Today, I had the honour of taking my oath of office before @UN Secretary-General @antonioguterres as Director-General of the United Nations Office at Vienna and Executive Director of @UNODC.

In taking this oath, I am reminded that international civil service is, above all, a commitment to people. As I solemnly declared my dedication to carry out these functions with integrity, impartiality, and the utmost regard for the purposes and principles of the United Nations, I reflected on the responsibility that comes with this trust.

I step into this role with humility, gratitude and a profound sense of duty, and look forward to working with colleagues and partners across the UN system, and the world to advance peace, security, justice and the rule of law, for a more prosperous and dignified future for all.

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

This afternoon in Paris, President Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame join French President H.E. Emmanuel Macron, along with senior government officials, members of the diplomatic corps, academics, researchers and friends of Rwanda for the unveiling of a monument honoring the victims of the 1994 Genocide Against the Tutsi. Follow live: https://t.co/vLzke9ogk8

[Ministry of Foreign Affairs & Int'l Cooperation @RwandaMFA]

Minister @onduhungirehe is in Seoul, South Korea, for the 2026 Korea-Africa Foreign Ministers’ Meeting, under the theme "Korea-Africa Partnership for Joint Response Amid Global Transformation".

[East African Community @jumuiya]

The Session of the Coordination Committee of the 60th Extra Ordinary Meeting of the EAC Council of Ministers meeting took place at the EAC Headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania.

The Key agenda was to consider the report of the Senior Officials who have been considering the Reports of the Meeting of Finance and Administration Committee and the Financial Matters of the Community for the last 3 days.

@mfa_tanzania @meaca_ug @Com_mediasRDC @EACAffairsKenya @MOFASomalia @MAEBurundi @RwandaMFA @SouthSudanGov

[Bajose @bambarisha]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[Rwanda Broadcasting Agency (RBA) @rbarwanda]

Brig Gen. Ronald Rwivanga has officially assumed office as Director of the Eastern Africa Standby Force, succeeding Brig Gen. Paul Kahuria Njema who has completed his three-year term.

Brig Gen. Rwivanga served as Spokesperson of the Rwanda Defence Force, a position he held since December 2020. #RBANews

[✞ @chretienrappel]

«En effet, moi, je connais les projets que je forme pour vous, déclare l'Eternel, projets de paix et non de malheur, afin de vous donner un avenir et de l'espérance.»
Jérémie 29:11

[Africa CEO Forum @africaceoforum]

🎙️ @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.

➡️ Follow our live: https://t.co/oOz8if7sPy

#ACF2026 #AfricaCEOForum

[Africa CEO Forum @africaceoforum]

🌍 D-Day. Kigali, today.

The doors of the Africa CEO Forum Annual Summit open this morning, and with them, two days that will redraw the map of African business. Two thousand CEOs, investors, heads of state and ministers are converging on Kigali to confront the questions that no other room in the world is willing to sit with for this long.

🔥 The conversations start now. Mega-projects as the new engine of pan-African growth. The case for African ownership in a zero-sum global economy. The productivity revolution that runs on energy and data. Renewables versus gas, banks versus borrowers, family offices stepping out of the shadows. Nothing is rhetorical here, everything is on the table, and the decisions taken in these halls will move markets and reshape policies long after the lights come down on Friday.

⚡ Africa has stopped waiting for permission, stopped negotiating from a position of deference, and started writing its own terms of engagement with a world that has changed beyond recognition. Kigali is where that next chapter begins to be written, in real time, by the people who can actually sign on the dotted line.

📍 Kigali, 14 and 15 May 2026. The room where it happens.

Follow every moment of the summit here!

#ACF2026 #AfricaCEOForum

[UN Vienna @UN_Vienna]

Press release: New Director-General of @UN Office at #Vienna and Executive Director of UN Office on Drugs and Crime @UNODC takes office - more : https://t.co/ueAkMlUjHs

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

President Kagame has arrived in Gaborone, Botswana for a two-day State Visit where he was welcomed by President Duma Boko @duma_boko of the Republic of Botswana.

[Immigration | Rwanda @Rwandamigration]

Today 5th May 26 in Kigali 🇷🇼 started a two days #NorthernCorridorIntegrationProjects Senior officials meeting discussing implementation of the East Africa Tourist Visa (EATV) advancing a
#Singletourismdestination.

[Presidency | Rwanda @UrugwiroVillage]

President Kagame has arrived in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania for a one-day working visit. President Kagame and his host President @SuluhuSamia of the United Republic of Tanzania are now having tête-a-tête meeting which will be followed by a joint press conference.

[UN Rwanda @UNRwanda]

Today, we stand in solidarity with #Rwanda on the 32nd commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.

We commend Rwanda’s resilience and visionary leadership, which have made the country a beacon of hope. #Kwibuka32

📹@FatmataLSesay

[Bajose @bambarisha]

Happy Easter

[Bajose @bambarisha]

@WorkElizab Peace

[UNODC Eastern Africa @UNODCEastAfrica]

Congratulations to Monica Kathina Juma on her appointment as Executive Director of @UNODC and Director-General of @UN_Vienna. She has been a committed partner in our mission in Kenya and across Eastern Africa. We look forward to her leadership at this global stage.

[Bajose @bambarisha]

Happy International Women's Day