{"id":39161,"date":"2019-04-12T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-shares-rwanda-s-resilience\/"},"modified":"2019-04-14T17:37:19","modified_gmt":"2019-04-14T17:37:19","slug":"president-kagame-shares-rwanda-s-resilience","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-shares-rwanda-s-resilience\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame shares Rwanda\u2019s resilience experience at NBA dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201c25 years ago, the country came to its knees. It was total devastation; there was no private sector, no government services, just blood flowing across the country,\u201d said Kagame. <\/p>\n

\u201cEverything was a priority and the biggest challenge was where you start from. We started from scratch, we started by putting pieces together, bringing people back together, reconciliation, justice, security, rebuilding schools, hospitals, and different public services,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

In a period of 12 years, Rwanda created a traditional justice system through Gacaca court where over one million suspects were tried. <\/p>\n

\u201c25 years on we look back and find things have come together in a way that even ourselves are very much surprised. We have reconciled people of our country, national unity has been holding, justice has taken place, there has been forgiving,\u201d observed Kagame. <\/p>\n

President Kagame explained that it was challenging because the country experienced a situation where people killed neighbors and family members. \u201c We had situations where people would kill their family members. For example, a man or a husband at home kills children who don\u2019t look like him, looking like a mother who is from a different identity. So you have a society in this kind of situation. It is really not only troubling but also extremely difficult to try and think of how to move the country forward.\u201d <\/p>\n

He explained that women have been empowered with 61.25% in parliament and 50% in the cabinet. <\/p>\n

In the 2019 World Bank Doing Business report, Rwanda is the 2nd in Africa in easing doing business and 29th in the World. <\/p>\n

President Kagame told NBA board of governors and executives that \u201cAfrica is open to doing business with the world, they have a lot to offer but Africa has a lot to offer as well. This is the moment to invest in Africa.\u201d <\/p>\n

\u201cYou don\u2019t have to wait, invest now and grow with Africa. What we have understood is to create trust among people and trust with their leaders. Trust doesn\u2019t just come about, you have to invest in it. Trust is the single point that binds things together. You have to figure out how you bring things together and people must feel they are relevant,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

In partnership with International Basketball Federation (FIBA); NBA expanded to Africa launching Basketball Africa League (BAL) where it will provide financial, technical support and building infrastructures for the league. <\/p>\n

It is expected that nine countries including Angola, Egypt, Kenya, Morocco, Nigeria, Rwanda, S\u00e9n\u00e9gal, South Africa and Tunisia will begin the tournament in January 2020.<\/p>\n

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President Kagame yesterday evening attended a dinner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) Board of Governors with NBA team, owners and executives where he shared Rwanda\u2019s resilience process after the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.<\/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":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","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\/39161","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=39161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39161\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39161"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39161"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}