National security is vital for economic and social progress.
Africa’s story has been written by others; we need to own our problems and solutions and write our story.
Rwanda is a democracy not a monarchy.
The West is anything but altruistic.
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.
Aid makes itself superfluous if it is working well. Good aid takes care to provide functioning structures and good training that enables the recipient country to later get by without foreign aid. Otherwise, it is bad aid.