{{The Foreign Affairs Minister of Rwanda Louise Mushikiwabo has demanded some respect from donor countries that wave their big chequebooks to intimidate Rwanda.}}<\/p>\n
“This child-to-parent relationship has to end.There has to be a minimum respect,” Mushikiwabo said Saturday in an address to a Kenyan business club called Mindspeak.<\/p>\n
She said, “As long as countries wave chequebooks over our heads, we can never be equal.”<\/p>\n
Mushikiwabo added that Africans have to work hard to develop their economies in order to stop relying on western donors.<\/p>\n
Minister Mushikiwabo said it was too early to tell what kind of damage the withholding of aid would do to the government’s economic development push.<\/p>\n
“We have been in much worse situations than dollars being withheld from us,” she said.<\/p>\n
German has also (Saturday) canceled its planned aid budget of US$26 Million in contributions to Rwanda\u2019s budget planned from this year through 2015.<\/p>\n
The UK also terminated US$25m financial support to Rwanda saying in a statement that it was delaying in budget support due July 2012 while considering whether aid conditions had been met.<\/p>\n
Earlier, US government had blocked $200,000 in military aid to Rwanda and the Netherlands suspended 5 million euros of aid after a United Nations interim report said Rwanda was backing rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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