{"id":37912,"date":"2018-07-26T08:40:19","date_gmt":"2018-07-26T08:40:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-interests-japanese-investors-to-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2018-07-27T14:23:24","modified_gmt":"2018-07-27T14:23:24","slug":"kagame-interests-japanese-investors-to-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-interests-japanese-investors-to-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame interests Japanese investors to Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"

Led by Manabu Horii, Japanese Parliamentary Vice-Minister of Foreign Affairs met the president Wednesday in Kigali and was briefed about investment opportunities available in Rwanda.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere has been a good relationship between Japan and Rwanda, we are trying to increase the private sector involvement to back the intentions of leaders and our people in achieving development objectives,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not afraid of leapfrogging in Rwanda. We want to take advantage of technologies Japan has, where we can. We are not saying if we are not starting from the bottom and move slowly then we will not move. We do both. We try to narrow the gap as fast as we can,\u201d Kagame noted.<\/p>\n

Speaking to the press after the discussions, the Chief Executive Officer of Rwanda Development Board (RDB), Clare Akamanzi said that the investors were attracted by Rwanda being a fast-developing country. <\/p>\n

In the discussions with President Kagame, Akamanzi said that they focused on ICT as priority area.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Japanese delegation is very strong in ICT and that is an area that we see Japan can contribute to Rwanda\u2019s growth plan. ICT as you know is a very big priority for us in Rwanda, Japan has capacity and already they have demonstrated that capacity by one of the investor investing in the country. So, we have really focused on ICT as a key area,\u201d Akamanzi said.<\/p>\n

She added that they also discussed other infrastructure opportunities like urbanization, waste management and treatment among others.<\/p>\n

Tuesday, RDB met the delegation where, according to Akamanzi, they discussed agriculture as an area of interest as well as presenting with them industrial parks as the places they can invest their money.
\nJapanese Manabu said that their government seeks to support the private sector in creating opportunities for investments.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs you may know, Rwanda is one of the most attractive countries for Japanese companies and I think that we have already built good relationship based on trust; the government of Japan seeks to support the private sector to promote more opportunities for investment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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President Paul Kagame has held talks with a delegation of 57 investors including 43 representatives of 28 Japanese companies and encouraged them to invest in Rwanda\u2019s emerging ICT sector.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"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-37912","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\/37912","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37912"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37912\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37912"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37912"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}