Reconciliation takes time. Sometimes many decades, as the example of Europe shows. It is hard work.

In Africa today, we recognise that trade and investment, and not aid, are pillars of development.

Technology has brought many possibilities in education and health that are key to women.

Strong economic growth, and especially a significant increase in private sector investment, is the only sustainable path forward for Rwanda.

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.

We've used aid to build capacities so we won't need aid in future.

There are some who are scared by unity and by building a country on the basis of ideas.