"I had been here six years, I think, doing other things for my country. I accepted to be president. Now, from that time, it's like I committed an offense, accepting to be president. Every day I'm being asked, when are you leaving? When are you going? These people who made me president are telling me they still want me to be president. Somebody else somewhere says, no, no, no, you are here too long. But these guys who even ask these questions, who tell me that even if they wanted, they cannot be the president of Rwanda because they don't belong here. And the people of this country, who matter to me more than anybody, anywhere else, keep saying, we want you here, I've been asking them too; even if I am agreeing to be president, they should not forget to be working very hard to identify people who will follow in my footpath. Every day I remind them now, but I think for them, they are operating like, as long as he has some breath in him, let's squeeze every bit of it. And I've been telling them, no, I don't have to stay here doing, so, but I know for sure somebody will be found sooner than later if you don't count the many years I've been around going forward." Chairman Kagame | Press Conference.
WATCH: RPF Inkotanyi presidential candidate #Kagame, along with First Lady Jeannette Kagame and First Daughter Ange Kagame, joined a group of traditional dancers on the dance floor after concluding the party's final rally at in Kigali on Saturday.
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#RwandaDecides their leader, but I sure am happy to celebrate democracy, development, peace and prosperity alongside the millions who are showing up to vote. #Tora24 🇷🇼
“You can’t fake unity, you can’t fake excitement, you can’t fake a turn up like this one, you can’t. You can’t fake progress, you can’t fake anything, you can’t even fake being RPF.” Chairman Kagame | RPF Presidential Campaign - Kicukiro District.
Rwanda deal: 'We are under no obligation to provide any sort of refund'.
Doris Picard, an adviser to Rwanda's Minister of Justice, has said her country has upheld its end of a $310m migrant deal with the UK scrapped by UK's new prime-minister Keir Starmer.
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Ibikorwa byo kwiyamamaza by'Abadepite bazahagararira Umuryango FPR-Inkotanyi mu Nteko Ishinga Amategeko byageze hose mu turere kandi birakomeje no mu mirenge.
Iminsi isigaye ibarirwa ku ntoki, gutora Umuryango FPR-Inkotanyi ni ugutuma ijwi ryawe rikomeza kumvikana.
Ku itariki 15 Nyakanga 2024, uzatore Abadepite ba FPR-Inkotanyi, utera igikumwe ku gipfunsi ku rupapuro rwa kaki uzasanga mu cyumba cy'itora.
“I am fortunate. My first blessing was to go through multiple struggles for many years, where people wondered whether they would live to see the next day, and surviving each day. I did not survive because of having more bravery than others, it was luck. But it also means that if you are lucky enough to see the next day, you must do what helps you and others to not only survive but also live to see many years ahead.
Every time we live to see the next day, we are standing on the sacrifices and bravery of the men and women who paid the ultimate price for our country to be where it is today. My second blessing is this chance I have to live to ensure that their sacrifices never go to waste. That is our responsibility, it is a privilege to be among those who will ensure that those who lost their lives can rest knowing that their sacrifice was not in vain. That is what strengthens us, like in that song that says that we fear no war; whether it comes from within or from outside.” Chairman Kagame | RPF Presidential Campaign - Nyagatare District.
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“Voting for the RPF means voting for development, for unity, but this act is also democratic. To you, the youth, the future belongs to you. Be lions, not cowards. Lions remain lions even as they grow old. You, the youth, have the responsibility to continue the journey started by those who came before you, including those who fled [as refugees] through this region before coming home through this same border to liberate this nation.” Chairman Kagame | RPF Presidential Campaign - Nyagatare District.
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“The reason I made a home here [in Bugesera] and why we decided to build the area, with even more to come, was to show that in all of Rwanda, there is no desolate place where people can be sent to be left to die. No one in Rwanda, whoever they are, will be targeted to be exterminated, to have their livelihood taken away. No one. I chose to build a home in the place that was meant to exterminate people, as a message of rejection, of opposition and fight against discrimination.” Chairman Kagame | RPF Presidential Campaign - Bugesera District.