{"id":36859,"date":"2018-01-25T07:46:48","date_gmt":"2018-01-25T07:46:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-urges-africans-to-take-a-lead-in-seeking\/"},"modified":"2018-01-26T16:48:18","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T16:48:18","slug":"kagame-urges-africans-to-take-a-lead-in-seeking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-urges-africans-to-take-a-lead-in-seeking\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame urges Africans to take a lead in seeking solutions for own problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kagame was speaking in a \u2018Peace-building in Africa discussion\u2019 in line with World Economic Forum (WEF) that is taking place in Davos, Switzerland.<\/p>\n<p>The discussion attracted President Alpha Cond\u00e9 of Guinea, Vice President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa, Somalia Prime Minister Hassan Ali Khayre, President of World Economic Forum B\u00f8rge Brende, Former UK Prime Minister Tony Blair and Former USA secretary of state, John Kerry.<\/p>\n<p>On Rwanda&#8217;s vision and perspective to peace-building in Africa, Kagame said that there&#8217;s no miracle performed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe tried to own our problems and we understood that local ownership is very important to us as Rwandans,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot import solutions from outside and impose them on people and expect them to work. It cannot. I&#8217;m speaking from experience,\u201d he said adding that Rwandans owned own problems and kept mind opened to others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut there is absolutely need to own the process,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Head of State said that People were telling Rwandans that they needed to divide the country into different states but, however they laughed it off. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe told them we are having a conversation as Rwandans so who and how are you telling us what to do?,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kagame said that Rwanda has seen much progress over the years, adding that \u201cit is still very important to own our challenges, look for real solutions and build our capacity,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kagame also attended an Africa Agricultural Transformation Scorecard roundtable discussion that was co-chaired by Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn and Bill Gates, founder of Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23833 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/iid.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame with Former United Kingdom&#039; Prime Minister, Tony Blair\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23832 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/loiuy.jpg\" alt=\"President in a discussion with Guinea President, Alpha Cond\u00e9\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23831 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dew3_.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23830 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/nd32.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame has said that solutions for people\u2019s problems cannot be imported from outside and imposed on others, an experience that Rwanda has come understand and appreciate.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36859","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36859"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36859"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}