{"id":2000102289,"date":"2026-02-17T19:29:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/?p=2000102289"},"modified":"2026-02-17T19:31:12","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T17:31:12","slug":"pm-nsengiyumva-eu-envoy-discuss-strengthening-rwanda-eu-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/pm-nsengiyumva-eu-envoy-discuss-strengthening-rwanda-eu-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Nsengiyumva, EU envoy discuss strengthening Rwanda\u2013EU partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The talks come at a time when Rwanda\u2013EU relations are undergoing a notable shift from traditional development assistance toward strategic, high-value economic cooperation. This transformation is largely driven by the EU\u2019s Global Gateway strategy, a multi-billion-euro initiative aimed at building sustainable partnerships through investments in digital, energy, transport and health infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Under the current multiannual financial framework, the EU allocated \u20ac260 million in grant funding to Rwanda for the 2021\u20132024 period, including \u20ac49 million in EFSD+ provisioning. For 2025\u20132027, an additional \u20ac134 million has been earmarked, alongside Rwanda\u2019s participation in several multi-country EU programmes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through the \u201cTeam Europe\u201d approach in Rwanda, the EU works alongside the European Investment Bank and member states including France, Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Greece, Sweden, Austria and Denmark.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A key highlight of the evolving partnership has been support for Rwanda\u2019s ambition to become a regional biotechnology and pharmaceutical hub. In October last year, during bilateral talks in Brussels between President Paul Kagame and Ursula von der Leyen, the EU announced \u20ac95 million in new funding to strengthen vaccine manufacturing in Rwanda.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The financing builds on earlier EU support of more than \u20ac93 million toward BioNTech\u2019s Kigali facility, inaugurated in 2023 as the company\u2019s first mRNA manufacturing site in Africa. The project is seen as a major step toward ensuring equitable access to vaccines and strengthening Africa\u2019s capacity to respond to future health emergencies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rwanda\u2019s development ambitions are guided by the National Strategy for Transformation and Vision 2050, which aim to achieve upper-middle-income status by 2035. The EU has positioned its cooperation framework to align with these goals, supporting economic transformation, green transition efforts and inclusive growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"
The discussions focused on further strengthening the longstanding partnership between Rwanda and the EU.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Prime Minister Justin Nsengiyumva on Tuesday afternoon held talks with Bel\u00e9n Calvo Uyarra, Ambassador and Head of Delegation of the European Union to Rwanda, with discussions focusing on further strengthening the longstanding partnership between Rwanda and the EU.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000102290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[151,69],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000102289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-editors-choice","tag-homehighlights","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000102290,"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MixCollage-17-Feb-2026-07-25-PM-7744.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":600,"height":400,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MixCollage-17-Feb-2026-07-25-PM-7744.jpg","width":150,"height":100},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MixCollage-17-Feb-2026-07-25-PM-7744.jpg","width":300,"height":200},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MixCollage-17-Feb-2026-07-25-PM-7744.jpg","width":600,"height":400},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MixCollage-17-Feb-2026-07-25-PM-7744.jpg","width":600,"height":400},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/MixCollage-17-Feb-2026-07-25-PM-7744.jpg","width":600,"height":400}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000102289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000102289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000102289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000102293,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000102289\/revisions\/2000102293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000102290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000102289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000102289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000102289"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000102289"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000102289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}