PRESIDENT KAGAME IS IN TORONTO, CANADA WHERE HE WILL ADDRESS THE FIFTH
EDITION OF RWANDA DAY BRINGING TOGETHER OVER THREE THOUSAND RWANDANS
LIVING IN CANADA AND THE UNITED STATES TO CELEBRATE THEIR UNIFYING
CULTURE AND RENEW THEIR COMMITMENT TO THE COUNTRY’S PROGRESS.
President Paul Kagame
Themed Agaciro: Investing in our Future, the event will focus on the
next chapter of Rwanda’s development and how the country will achieve
its ambition of becoming a middle-income country by 2020.
Rwanda Day comes shortly after the government announced the second phase
of its Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS2),
which, over the next five years, targets economic growth of 11.5 per
cent per annum and to reduce poverty to under 30 per cent. Through the
previous strategy, 1 million Rwandans lifted themselves out of poverty,
as the economy grew by more than 8 per cent each year.
This year, the country also launched a landmark Eurobond, which was more
than 300 times oversubscribed. It signaled to Rwanda’s intention to
become a modern and dynamic economy, which is increasingly
interconnected to global markets.
As well as celebrating Rwanda’s social economic transformation, the
event also seeks to bring together Rwandans to discuss new ideas about
how to sustain this.
Source - in2eastafrica.net
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