Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.

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.

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.

Rwanda is rebuilding itself once again as one nation and that is the reason why we are making progress. Now many Rwandans are making their ends meet and others are able to do better than they have before.

Human rights groups are locked in a fierce competition for big checks from wealthy donors and they need to generate big headlines.

The situation in Congo shows nothing for which you could hold Rwanda responsible.