The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo has explained the growing Sino-Rwanda cooperation which she describes as very important to Rwanda and Africa.
In her interview with Xinhua, Mushikiwabo said Rwanda needs China in areas especially infrastructure development.
Below are excerpts of the interview
Xinhua: Minister, how is the partnership between Rwanda and China and what are the prospects?
Mushikiwabo:The partnership between China and African countries and my country Rwanda in particular is a partnership which we rejoice, because this is a partnership that has a lot of importance on our continent.
China, like other countries and other parts of the world should be very interested in Africa, both for infrastructure and for other aspects of our development too.
In terms of outlook, I can confidently say that the prospects are good. With Rwanda in particular, there is a growing partnership.
China was discovered several years ago, but these five, ten years ago marked increase in infrastructure projects.
Xinhua: Can you name a few flagship projects?
Mushikiwabo: For example, many road projects across the country, offices construction projects in Kigali in particular, small urban roads through the city of Kigali as well.
And Rwanda is currently in discussions with the Chinese government to guide our priorities together.
Xinhua: In the field of fiber optics such as?
Mushikiwabo: No, in the field of fiber optic Rwanda has benefited from a public-private partnership and this is the Korean company Corea Telecom has installed fiber optics throughout the country.
Xinhua: And in the field of energy, what you can remember?
Mushikiwabo: First, energy is a problem for Rwanda. This is our key development area, but the most important project for the moment, is the exploitation of methane gas in Lake Kivu with a U.S. company, Global Control, with other concessions which are always available to companies other than American society.
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