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It Is The First Time In The History Of Rwanda That Political Change In The Highest Leadership Of The Country Has Taken Place In Peace And Security.

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.

When People Accuse Us Of Taking Coltan From Congo, I Don't Understand What They Mean. The Quality Of Our Own Coltan Here From Rwanda Is Much Better. But Still People From The Un Come Here, We Show Them Our Coltan Mines, We Show Them The Documents, Then They Go And Say: Rwanda Smuggles Coltan.

There Are African Leaders Who Have The Dangerous Habit Of Leading Their People Into An Abyss. In Rwanda We've Had Presidents Who Killed. The One Million People Who Died Here Were, To A Certain Extent, Victims Of Their Leader, President Juvénal Habyarimana, Who Died In A Plane Crash Before The Genocide Began. He Contributed To All That. The Man Who Took Over From Him Was Running Around Ordering People To Kill. If This President Came Back And Landed In My Hands, I Would Have Him Arrested And Tried. Unfortunately, He Died A Natural Death.

Rwanda Is A Very Open And Free Country. Key To Our Recovery As A Nation Has A Range Of Grassroots, Citizen-centered Polices We Call "homegrown Solutions." The Idea That Rwanda Is Highly Controlled From The Center Belies The Reality, Which Is That Citizens In Every Village Have A Powerful Say In How Things Get Done. We Prize Accountability And Rwandans Are Quickly Adapting Themselves To The Possibilities Of A Digital Economy.