I Grew Up In A Refugee Camp

I Do Not Want To Be Cynical, But If Developing Nations Are Kept Backward By Being Told, Again And Again, You Belong To The Poor And You Are There, Where You Actually Belong, Then Nothing Will Change.

The New Rwanda Is About Building An Economy That Delivers Prosperity And Opportunity For Our Citizens Based On A Robust Private Sector. Foreign Adventures Would Be Costly And Counterproductive Distractions From These Challenging Objectives.

Moving Container From Kigali To Mombasa Used To Take 22 Days, Now It Takes 6 Days.

In Rwanda, We Have A Society That Has Experienced A Very Serious Rupture And You Can't Expect All Of A Sudden That Things Will Be Perfect. Even So: You Cannot Find Any More Areas Where Any Segment Of The Population Would Be Afraid To Go, Like We Used To Have Before. But There Is Always A Lot More To Do.

There Are Things I Admire, For Example, About South Korea Or Singapore. I Admire Their History, Their Development And How Intensively They Have Invested In Their People And In Technology.