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Rwanda: Kagame Calls for ‘Meaningful Relations’ Between Donors and Recipient Countries
By: Edmund Kagire Kigali — President Paul Kagame, yesterday, emphasised that what developing nations like Rwanda need is a “meaningful relationship” with donors, where people are accorded the right to think and do what they think is in their best interest, and strongly stressed the need for accountability. Addressing the 9th Government and Development Partners [...]
Rwanda: Kagame Receives Global Peace Award
Kigali — President Paul Kagame has been awarded the Global Peace and Unity Services to Humanity Award 2010. The Award was received on behalf of the Head of State by Senate President, Dr Vincent Biruta, during a high-profile interfaith function in London, UK, on October 23, 2010. The Award was given to President Kagame by [...]
World Food Day: Let’s Unite to Against Hunger!
Rome, Italy, October 16, 2010 /WNCNews/ – Problem solving of world hunger was urgent and obligations of all institutions and governments at every level. For that, let’s unite to against hunger. It was announced by Director-General of Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Jacques Diouf in his speech at the commemoration of 30th World Food Day [...]
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Rwanda: PM Makuza to Present Govt’s Seven-Year Strategy
Allafrica.com By: Edwin Musoni Kigali — The Prime Minister, Bernard Makuza, will today present before both Chambers of Parliament, the government’s programme for the next seven years This will be the first time the Prime Minister will be making a presentation of the government plans, before the public. Speaking to The New Times, yesterday, the [...]
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Rwanda’s Paul Kagame speaks on CNN.com
Rwanda to keep its peacekeepers in place Paul Kagame on CNN.com – see video: http://topics.cnn.com/topics/paul_kagame United Nations (CNN) — Rwanda will not pull its troops from U.N. peacekeeping missions despite a leaked draft report that accused Rwandan soldiers of genocide in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Rwandan President Paul Kagame told the U.N. [...]
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Rwanda: Kagame Meets With MDG Advocates
September 23, 2010 Following Monday’s launch of the MDG Summit, President Paul Kagame, co-chair of the MDG Advocacy Group, and UN Secretary General, Ban Ki-moon, yesterday participated in the second meeting of the group that comprises eminent personalities selected to support the UNSG to build political will to accelerate progress on MDGs. The Advocacy Group [...]
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Why we should fund entrepreneurs not governments
Dambisa Moyo praises on Paul Kagame’s economic development approach… Templeton Foundation | April, 2009 In “Dead Aid,” Dambisa Moyo describes the state of postwar development policy in Africa today and unflinchingly confronts a great myth: that billions of dollars in aid sent from wealthy countries to developing African nations has helped to reduce poverty and [...]
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Rwanda: Nation Should Focus on Economy
AllAfrica.com September 2010 Editorial Last week, Rwanda president Mr. Paul Kagame was sworn in for a second seven year term in office. The president with a group of young liberators, fought a protracted war to fend off genocide and civil war. Today the RPF is heading one of the fastest growing economies in the region. [...]
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Rwanda: The New Prosperity And the Public Good
Source: AllAfrica.com By Gloria A. Iribagiza September 8, 2010 Kigali — The world mostly knows Rwanda for the cruelty that was let loose in 1994; when over one million perished during the murderous frenzy that was unleashed against the Tutsi. Sixteen years later, Rwanda has evolved into a highly contrasting image of its former self, [...]
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Rwanda: Kagame Hosts Harvard Students