Presidency | Rwanda
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“Everybody has this capacity or possibility to do, but sometimes we just sit with it and we don't move on to do what we have to do. All of us have that ability and it's better when you think like that at a much younger stage so that you grow into it. Then you are able to build yourself to resolve even bigger challenges.” President Kagame #AFSForum2026
Presidency | Rwanda27,044 次观看 • 4 天前
"When we were living as refugees, we went to many places telling the international community that Rwanda was our home and that we wanted to return. Some people would come and raise the matter with the government that was in power here. The response they received was that Rwanda was too small and that there was no place for us to go. Imagine being told there is no place for you in the very country you came from. You cannot tell someone to remain where they are, to spend their entire life as a refugee, and for their children to grow up as refugees as well. I used to tell people, even at the beginning of our liberation struggle, that whatever treatment we received in the countries where we lived, they were not the people I had a grievance against. After all, it was my own country that had denied me the right to return because it claimed there was no room for me. The people I had a grievance against were those who had the responsibility to guarantee my rights in my own country, but instead denied them. Those were the people we had to confront. And that is exactly what happened." President Kagame | Indangamirwa 16th Cohort #MeetThePresident
Presidency | Rwanda215,533 次观看 • 1 个月前
![“Making people just shut up is going to be more difficult than people think. Telling us shut up, we will support those who want to come and kill you, like they killed you last time, and we will handle it the way we want. The only way to make me shut up is when I am dead. That's it. Belittling everything and making it look like some people's lives are worth more than others. That is not my politics. It is not RPF's politics. We are a small country. Very insignificant in many ways. You can harm to us but wishing us away is not a small thing. When they said they would make the M23 disappear, they meant even Rwanda, we will make you disappear. Well, I can't invite it. I can't wish to have such a thing. But when it comes, when I have not been able to avoid it, I think they will find [us ready].” President Kagame, Chairman of the RPF | RPF Bureau Politique.](https://image.24vids.com/tw-2078139901707522059/amplify_video_thumb/2078139696299835392/img/lVN4a0H9NFZvf2f-.jpg)
“Making people just shut up is going to be more difficult than people think. Telling us shut up, we will support those who want to come and kill you, like they killed you last time, and we will handle it the way we want. The only way to make me shut up is when I am dead. That's it. Belittling everything and making it look like some people's lives are worth more than others. That is not my politics. It is not RPF's politics. We are a small country. Very insignificant in many ways. You can harm to us but wishing us away is not a small thing. When they said they would make the M23 disappear, they meant even Rwanda, we will make you disappear. Well, I can't invite it. I can't wish to have such a thing. But when it comes, when I have not been able to avoid it, I think they will find [us ready].” President Kagame, Chairman of the RPF | RPF Bureau Politique.
Presidency | Rwanda220,864 次观看 • 1 个月前
“Many Africans have that knowledge, in fact, sometimes they are the ones working for those institutions or those companies that develop AI systems. We need to resolve a bigger problem on our continent where, we need to be at the same level with the rest across the world, because we can. Why is it just a given that Africa must lag behind everybody?” President Kagame on the imperative for Africa to take an active role in shaping the future of AI.
Presidency | Rwanda37,929 次观看 • 14 天前
"Mr Chairman, Your Excellencies, I want us that for whatever we are saying and whatever we intend to do we capture the context rightly and then proceed based on that, and maybe we can get somewhere. Otherwise if we keep saying good things to each other, being nice, and then each one fulfilling their own interests other than the common interests we have as East Africans, then I don’t see how we are going to contribute effectively to finding a solution. The other day, two or three days ago, we lost people, there was a lot of shelling from eastern Congo, from Goma, killed a dozen people and injured hundreds. We will definitely take care of that, there is no question about it." President Kagame | Extra Ordinary Summit of EAC Heads of State on Eastern DRC.
Presidency | Rwanda1,127,968 次观看 • 1 年前
“I hear what is popular among young people these days: vibes. I have nothing against good vibes. Vibes are not just for young people. Even those of us who are older can enjoy them. But if we are going to enjoy the vibes, we must have something solid to stand on, please. Don’t invest in vibes, invest in the foundation where you can now vibe. Because if there is no foundation, it won’t last. We want things that are sustainable. We want to build a society that is resilient. You can’t built a society that is resilient on vibes. But a resilient society can vibe.” President Kagame, Chairman of the RPF | RPF Bureau Politique.
Presidency | Rwanda106,060 次观看 • 1 个月前
“The term “The Africa we want” has been repeated so much. Yes, there is Africa we want. Why can’t we have the Africa we want, since we have everything in place. Why don’t we do things so that we can actually admire each other. Among us there are people capable of doing good things. Why don’t we join them and do exactly that.” President Kagame | Africa Mindset Reset Forum 2026
Presidency | Rwanda28,260 次观看 • 13 天前
“As young people, we need you. We love you. But first and foremost, take care of yourselves. This religion of alcohol, I think people even recruit others into it. Alcohol is killing you. It’s killing young people. The older ones are already gone. It has killed so many older people like us. Others are already on that same path and seem unable to stop. But I want to warn you and beg you: everything we have been talking about, what brought you here, and the plans we have for our country, this thing will kill you before you realise your ambitions.” President Kagame |#MeetThePresident Indangamirwa 16th Cohort
Presidency | Rwanda66,791 次观看 • 1 个月前
“I called the President of Burundi, Ndayishimiye, and asked him: The EAC forces in the DRC were expelled, Burundi remained, and now SADC forces are deploying — has Burundi joined SADC? He said no. I then asked whether Burundi stayed in Congo because of its friendship with Kinshasa and a desire to support whatever Congo was doing. He replied that Congo had requested their presence because they are friends. I asked again: But more and more of your troops are moving north. Yet he had told me earlier that Burundi’s security problems originating from Congo were in the south — in Uvira and Minembwe — and that this was why they entered Congo. So I asked: If Minembwe and Uvira are in the south, what are you doing in the north, in Goma and Rutshuru? He responded, “Who told you we have troops there?” I told him I had been informed by people who showed me evidence, but that I wanted to hear directly from him before taking it as fact. He said, “They lied to you; we have no troops in the north.” I replied that since he, as head of state, was telling me this, I would accept it. Not long after, many of their soldiers were captured in combat. This led to meetings between our two countries. Burundi tried to deny it, and we asked: Are you denying your own soldiers, captured exactly where you said you had none? It became an endless back-and-forth. Even today, all of this was happening before we signed the agreement and continued afterward. What happened in Uvira revealed thousands of Burundian soldiers operating in Uvira, Minembwe, Kalemie, Kindu, and others who had moved to Walikale and Kisangani — more than twenty thousand in total. You have to ask: how did such a large Burundian force enter Congo? Clearly there is a serious problem. They spend their days shelling people in Minembwe with artillery and drones. And those in the international community who talk endlessly — where are they? People have cried out for help, and no one has intervened. Then recently, after the fighting in Uvira, an international outcry suddenly emerged claiming, “It is Rwanda.” So now Rwanda is expected to bear responsibility for all the problems unfolding inside Congo.” President Kagame
Presidency | Rwanda328,499 次观看 • 9 个月前
“They looted the minerals better than anybody in history. They sell minerals in Antwerp, diamonds. Do they produce diamonds? Or they have gold, bullions they took long ago and are adding more? Do they have gold mines, these Europeans? They may even say the gold or the diamonds are brought by legitimate people. Would you believe that? When they are there, they are the legitimate ones. It is only Rwanda picked on about minerals, simply because the audience in Europe will listen more to these accusations, whether what they are saying is happening or not.” President Kagame
Presidency | Rwanda288,297 次观看 • 9 个月前
"If you look at what has happened in Eastern Congo, and everything we have gone through over the past four or five years, and you look at what we have left behind, there is evidence. There are facts that speak for themselves. In Eastern Congo, in Goma and elsewhere, the whole world came together against Rwanda. The whole world lined up against Rwanda: the FDLR and all the groups associated with it that have been mentioned, the Wazalendo, the Burundian forces, the FARDC, the South Africans, and many others. I would rather not spend time naming them all; there were so many. When you look at the scale of what they had assembled there and what they were up against, it is clear that what they were trying to do was wage war against Rwanda, destabilize our country, and reshape it the way they wanted. In fact, they said so themselves. Ordinarily, if someone were to say these things without evidence, you might think they were simply trying to frighten people, to intimidate them. To convince themselves that what they wanted was within reach and that they were going to achieve it, they even brought in mercenaries. You know that many of them passed through here. We gave free passage to our enemies, allowing them to leave a war they waged against us, a war that was never theirs to begin with. That alone tells you something. And it is also something for which our forces, together with others who stood with them, deserve recognition. As for Rwanda, we will always be in a struggle for our very existence. Regardless of those who wish us harm, surrounding us from many sides, one thing remains true: we should and will always be a step ahead of them. It is our right. It is our will. And our history has taught us that we have within ourselves the capacity to defend and protect ourselves whenever necessary. And that is exactly what we will continue to do." President Kagame | Unity Club Meeting
Presidency | Rwanda80,923 次观看 • 2 个月前
“You find someone hiding behind a religion, hiding behind a church, setting up something that is only meant to serve their own interests and rob others. Everything becomes something anyone can just put up, like putting a barrier somewhere, stopping people, pretending to be what you are not, and then starting to take away people’s property. Saying, ‘You do not pass here unless you first bring this wealth.’ That should not happen in any religion, of whatever kind. That is different from persecuting religions or churches. Putting things in order is not persecution. When you are putting things in order, when people tell you that we know religion exists, and should exist, to do certain things: to teach, to reach citizens, to help them, and as you have said, even among Muslims, you have put in place ways of helping in education, in health, and in different areas, that is what should be done. Not robbing people. Not denying them a livelihood. Not taking what belongs to them so that a few individuals become rich and are the only ones who prosper. That has happened everywhere, across religions and churches.” President Kagame | Rwandan Muslim Community #MeetThePresident
Presidency | Rwanda146,191 次观看 • 5 个月前
