{"id":50702,"date":"2024-05-22T12:33:33","date_gmt":"2024-05-22T12:33:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-says-unity-is-the-foundation-for-rwanda-s-development\/"},"modified":"2024-05-27T07:39:05","modified_gmt":"2024-05-27T07:39:05","slug":"president-kagame-says-unity-is-the-foundation-for-rwanda-s-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-says-unity-is-the-foundation-for-rwanda-s-development\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame says unity is the foundation for Rwanda’s development"},"content":{"rendered":"

Speaking during the Global Security Forum on Tuesday, May 21, 2024, President Kagame said the country has been healing for the last three decades, emphasizing that it\u2019s not something he thought would happen so fast.<\/p>\n

He attributed gains in the reconciliatory efforts to Rwanda\u2019s young generation, constituting more than 70 per cent of the country\u2019s population.<\/p>\n

“The tragedy is behind us but it never gets that distant in the past\u2026 We have tried to build unity, and it is happening. It\u2019s something that is benefiting from the young generation. Young people, who constitute 73 per cent of our population, are 35 and below,\u201d he said, adding that, \u201cWe have to make sure that these divisions, to the extreme that led to the genocide, never happen again.”<\/p>\n

President Kagame noted that Rwanda will continue to build on the unity by investing in its people.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe foundation in this case for us is unity. We are building on that foundation by investing in people. \u201cWe invest in human capital, we provide the goods for education, and health, and food security and bring in technology, and therefore going to these other industries that will make our economy, our country, vibrant and grow and develop,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

He pointed out that investments such as the construction of a modern airport in Bugesera District, in collaboration with Qatar Airways, the modernization of the mining sector, and the development of digital infrastructure add value to all aspects of the economy.<\/p>\n

Weighing in on foreign investments and partnerships with foreign powers, President Kagame noted Rwanda had \u201clearnt a lot of lessons\u201d from the past.<\/p>\n

Commenting on the rivalry between the United States and China, President Kagame insisted that Rwanda and Africa cannot be \u201ccrushed\u201d in the issues and welcomed investments from America, China, and Europe in Rwanda and Africa.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe can be friends with others\u2014United States, Europe, China, you name it\u2014and not be dragged into these conflicts that benefit those conflicting while impoverishing the African continent.\u201d <\/p>\n

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President Paul Kagame maintains that Rwanda\u2019s development blueprint is anchored in strides the government has made in uniting the country after the ethnic divisions that led to the Genocide against the Tutsi in 1994.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000067076,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-50702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","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":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","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":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000067076,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/jad20230126-ass-itv-kagame-photo-1-1256x628-1674814058.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/jad20230126-ass-itv-kagame-photo-1-1256x628-1674814058.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/jad20230126-ass-itv-kagame-photo-1-1256x628-1674814058.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/jad20230126-ass-itv-kagame-photo-1-1256x628-1674814058.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/jad20230126-ass-itv-kagame-photo-1-1256x628-1674814058.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/jad20230126-ass-itv-kagame-photo-1-1256x628-1674814058.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50702","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\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50702"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50702\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000067076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50702"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=50702"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=50702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}