Paul Kagame
Paul Kagame
Paul Kagameis the sixth and current President of Rwanda having taken office in 2000 when his predecessor, Pasteur Bizimungu, resigned. Kagame previously commanded the rebel force that ended the 1994 Rwandan Genocide. He was considered Rwanda's de facto leader when he served as Vice President and Minister of Defence from 1994 to 2000...
ProfessionWorld Leader
Date of Birth23 October 1957
country training care
Aid makes itself superfluous if it is working well. Good aid takes care to provide functioning structures and good training that enables the recipient country to later get by without foreign aid. Otherwise, it is bad aid.
west
The West is anything but altruistic.
cynical want poor
I do not want to be cynical, but if developing nations are kept backward by being told, again and again, you belong to the poor and you are there, where you actually belong, then nothing will change.
causes blame problem
Rwanda has its own problems and never sought to blame others or cause others trouble. I advise Burundi to do the same.
names long people
I know that the fact that I am candidate to my own succession in 2017 can be perceived to be a bad thing by some part of the public opinion outside Rwanda and I don't mind because I know that I am doing it for a good cause. It really doesn't matter to me that my name is associated to those critics as long as I know that I am doing the will of the people.
jobs party years
I am not responsible for creating an opposition, neither am I responsible for appointing my own successor. My job is to allow for the opposition to exist within what the realms of the law. There is space in Rwanda for political parties - if fact we have about a dozen of them - as long as their objective is not to take us back twenty two years. On that point, we are and will always be very vigilant.
country strong leader
It is better for a country to have a strong leader, this applies to the United States as well as to Rwanda.
strong growth path
Strong economic growth, and especially a significant increase in private sector investment, is the only sustainable path forward for Rwanda.
strong leader strong-leaders
A strong leader is not necessarily a bad leader.
moving growth used
Moving container from Kigali to Mombasa used to take 22 days, now it takes 6 days.
great-day one-day steps
Such problems are not solved in one day but there is a great step toward peace and security in the region.
country ideas unity
There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.
people choices needs
Politics is not only about personal choice. That one also needs to take into consideration what the people want because in the end, they are the ones who decide.
keys political growth
Infrastructure is key, but also how it's used, and that's political.