{"id":46693,"date":"2022-09-24T10:19:17","date_gmt":"2022-09-24T10:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-businessman-david-bonderman-discuss-investment-opportunities-in-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T10:04:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T10:04:20","slug":"kagame-businessman-david-bonderman-discuss-investment-opportunities-in-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-businessman-david-bonderman-discuss-investment-opportunities-in-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame, businessman David Bonderman discuss investment opportunities available in Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Bonderman,79, is among tycoons in the USA whose net worth is estimated at $6.5 billion, according to Forbes.  <\/p>\n<p>He has invested in diverse businesses including TPG Capital, Boston Celtics Basketball Team and Seattle Kraken, a professional ice hockey team based in Seattle.<\/p>\n<p>President Kagame held talks with the businessman on Friday 23rd September 2022 in the United States.  <\/p>\n<p>Their discussions on investment opportunities in Rwanda were also attended by the CEO of Rwanda Development Board (RDB), Clare Akamanzi and Francis Gatare, Senior Economic Advisor to the President. <\/p>\n<p>In 2015, David Bonderman announced a plan to invest in Africa through TPG Capital in which he owns shares.   <\/p>\n<p>He would partner with Sudanese businessman, Mo Ibrahim to run the investment on the African continent.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from being a businessman, David Bonderman is also a philanthropist running different biodiversity conservation projects in Africa. <\/p>\n<p>Through Wildcat Foundation, he has massively contributed to the fight against poachers killing elephants and rhinos to sell their tusks. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44315 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fdxxbfnxga037bb-3d8f9.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame has held talks with businessman, David Bonderman. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-44316 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fdxxbexxgacurxg_1_-c48f2.jpg\" alt=\"Clare Akamanzi and Francis Gatare, also attended discussions between David Bonderman and President Kagame.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has held talks with billionaire businessman, David Bonderman from the United States of America (USA) aimed at exploring various investment opportunities available in Rwanda.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","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\/46693","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46693\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46693"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46693"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}