President Kagame to taxpayers: Even with the challenges created by the pandemic, you remained committed and contributed to our country’s economic development. In the last fiscal year, we exceeded our total revenue collection target. President Kagame: Last year, Government provided strategic tax relief to individuals and business, in order to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on our economy and on families.

President Kagame: This story gained significance or prominence when the name of Rwanda was injected into the whole thing. Spying itself is as old as human beings. There are so many tools used by everybody in this world. But when Rwanda’s name is mentioned it’s for a reason. President Kagame: The names they picked that we could have used it against was done deliberately.

President Kagame On COVID-19: I trust that life will get back to normal. It’s not easy because we still don’t know the real cause behind this virus, what is coming next, when does it end. President Kagame: We need to stay vigilant and use all the information available to keep updating ourselves on how to prevent its spread and keep on fighting it.

President Kagame: As we were rebuilding the country after the tragic history following 1994, actually years before that as well, part of the things we discovered was we have to invest in our people, in education, in their health & many other things. We have to start somewhere. President Kagame: As we were rebuilding our education, we found we were starting from scratch in some instances and that is how we found we had to send some of our young people to study abroad, we did not have enough here.

President Kagame: The medical career is guided by certain ethics and principles just like other careers, but how you translate them into actions is what determines that you really understand those principles. #MeetThePresident President Kagame: It is good and important for people to have principles, but it doesn’t mean that those principles are applied. When those principles are not applied right, we lose a lot and that’s the basis of most of the problems we face. #MeetThePresident

President Kagame begins keynote address: I am very pleased to join you here today, to launch the Mara Phones factory, which is the first of its kind in our continent. The first smartphones ever to be made in Rwanda have already rolled off the assembly line #MadeInRwanda President Kagame: The Mara Phone joins a growing list of high-quality products that are made in our country. Producing smartphones is not a simple matter. Around one thousand individual components are involved as we have been taken through the whole process #MadeInRwanda

Following a working session with @BillGates and @melindagates , President Kagame held an interactive discussion with staff of @gatesfoundation President Kagame on economic growth: Growth of the economy should be about how that contributes to the wellbeing of people, what we can do to improve their living standard and for most of them to achieve their aspirations

President Kagame: Good morning, and a warm welcome to all of you. We are here to observe the anniversary of Rwanda’s liberation. #kwibohora25 President Kagame: It is a privilege to mark this occasion, in the company of so many friends of Rwanda, from around the world. I thank you all, on behalf of our country, for your solidarity and friendship over many years. It means a great deal to us. #Kwibohora25

President Kagame begins Keynote address: I am very happy to be back in Abuja. I would like to start by calling to mind the greatness of this nation. The diversity, creativity and ambition of Nigerians represent Africa #EFCCAntiCorruptionSummit President Kagame: I would like to start by calling to mind the greatness of this nation. The diversity, creativity and ambition of Nigerians represent Africa. The achievements of Nigeria’s sons and daughters here at home and in your global diaspora make our continent proud.

President Kagame: The problem of anxiety by the west relating to China’s involvement in Africa has more to do with the west than with Africa. The competition between the US & the industrialized world with China finds Africa caught between China and the West. #MIGlobal President Kagame: Africa has its own needs and interests whether you want to see it that way or not. #MIGlobal

President Kagame on Vienna AU-EU forum: It was a continuation of the good discussion held at Abidjan AU-EU summit. It’s important for Africa and Europe to relate to each other in a partnership of equals, not where one is a permanent recipient of the other’s generosity. President Kagame on Rwanda’s Home-Grown Solutions: We sought solutions from within our values and traditions because we had tried everything else and come up with nothing. Like in the rest of Africa, people experimented on us, we accepted it, and it came to nothing.