Rwanda is not over needing aid, but we can survive with less aid than before.

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

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

Such problems are not solved in one day but there is a great step toward peace and security in the region.

I am not responsible for creating an opposition, neither am I responsible for appointing my own successor. My job is to allow for the opposition to exist within what the realms of the law. There is space in Rwanda for political parties - if fact we have about a dozen of them - as long as their objective is not to take us back twenty two years. On that point, we are and will always be very vigilant.

Israel and Rwanda both play an active part in international organizations, including the U.N., but I think it's true that our unique experiences as nations have shaped a fierce independence that we will not relinquish.

I grew up in a refugee camp in Uganda, and I lived there for 30 years. That shapes one's character.