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
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Mrs. Bush saw our beautiful country and people, ... But she also saw the suffering of those with this disease.
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At this stage, we want them to get more involved in ... budget support, debt-relief support and many other things that can help ... our country on economic development problems,
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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.
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It is better for a country to have a strong leader, this applies to the United States as well as to Rwanda.
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There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.
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It is the first time in the history of Rwanda that political change in the highest leadership of the country has taken place in peace and security.
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Human rights are not the preserve of Western activists: The definition must extend to encompass the right to the dignified life; the right to send your kids to school, for that child to get health care, for access for greater prosperity for generations to come and to have a say in the destiny of your community and country. Under that definition, Rwanda has nothing to learn from advocacy groups who think they own the copyright on what constitutes human rights under all conditions in every corner of the world.
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Rwanda is a very open and free country. Key to our recovery as a nation has a range of grassroots, citizen-centered polices we call "homegrown solutions." The idea that Rwanda is highly controlled from the center belies the reality, which is that citizens in every village have a powerful say in how things get done. We prize accountability and Rwandans are quickly adapting themselves to the possibilities of a digital economy.
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My purpose is to develop a country, to empower its population. It's from that same population that will emerge the man or woman who will succeed me. And they will be chosen based on the consensus that they have the capacity to lead the country.
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I firmly believe that these two issues ... constitute the ultimate solution to the conflict. We are more than willing to resolve this issue once and for all.
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It looks like Mr. Kagame wanted to clear out people able to compete with him.
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There is no doubt that both regional states and Africa in whole will gain toward peace and stability in Burundi,
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What we need to do between now and December is work on the follow-up, to see things through, ... It would be unfair not to make use of our proximity to decision-makers.
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It is a day we remember systematic slaughter of over a million of our innocent fellow Rwandans, an orgy of bloodletting unprecedented in the history of our nation.