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!
"Sustainable economic growth does not come from aid. It comes from private enterprise. So, we are making a clear shift: from aid to trade, from assistance to investment, and from dependency to partnership. And we are engaging African nations accordingly—not as aid recipients, but as capable commercial partners". -Nick Checker, Senior Bureau Official
Read the full keynote in the thread. ⬇️
Bringing to an end cycles of aid and debt in Africa requires viable capital markets. The journey is long.Numerous challenges remain but that is the way to go-mobilizing Africa s domestic savings. Congratulations @RwStockExchange on 15th Anniversary.
We told western countries many times that, for the past 30 years, the FDLR genocidal force has been a permanent threat to Rwanda, especially as they are now supported by the Congolese government and embedded in the FARDC.
Unfortunately, these world's powers refused to listen to us, arguing that the FDLR combatants are just a bunch of "old and weak" people, and that Rwanda is using them as a pretext to "invade Congo for minerals".
Yet, the FDLR, a movement that has continously recruiting on its genocide ideology, was even supported by @MONUSCO, a 26-year old UN peacekeeping mission that was supposed to neutralize them, as per several UN Security Council resolutions.
And today, a group of FDLR combatants captured on the battlefield (including Brig Gen Ezechiel Gakwerere, one of the murderers of Queen Rosalie Gicanda - here in a FARDC uniform -), were handed over to Rwanda by the AFC/M23, a rebel movement that is doing the very job that the self-righteous international community should have done over the past 30 years.
But guess who they now call the "villain"...
Rwandans have once more chosen the leader that we trust, need and deserve. Five more years of peace, progress and more prosperity for our country. It’s good to be Rwandan. ✊🏾
“We celebrate while we look to the work ahead of us.” #PerezidaWacu
“No foreign investor will come if there are no successful domestic companies. We need to work hard and have profitable SMEs. National companies that do well are absolutely indispensable. “ Mr. Tidjane Thiam, Chairman @Kigali_IFC