{Few were less comfortable with the prospect of sainthood than Nelson Mandela himself. “One issue that deeply worried me in prison,” he wrote in Conversations with Myself, a collection of his writings published in 2010 “was the false image that I unwittingly projected to the outside world: of being regarded as a saint. I never […]

Today we mark the 19th commemoration of the genocide against the Tutsi in 1994 in which more than one million people perished. At nearly two decades since the genocide happened, we need to reflect on how far we have come in building our nation, providing justice, as well as uniting and bringing development to […]

Your Excellency Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, President of the Republic of Uganda; Your Excellency Hailemariam Desalegn, Prime Minister of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia; Visiting Heads of Delegations of political organisations; Leaders of our Government’s High Institutions; Members of the Diplomatic Corps; Distinguished Guests; Cadres and Members of the Rwandese Patriotic Front; Fellow Rwandans: Today […]

We join you in mourning and paying tribute to a great man, a great son of Ethiopia who is also ours as a continent. But we also celebrate his rich life that has touched millions of people in Africa and across the world. His was a life of immense courage, vision and enterprise which he […]

There are regional issues with challenges and opportunities, some of which will be there for some time. These issues end up being international. They are complicated even further by international actors. This is the situation we have in the Congo. Looking at it superficially, as some have, it is easy to apportion the blame; indeed, […]