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Paul Kagame is the President of the Republic of Rwanda. He served as Chair of the AU from 2018 to 2019 and chaired the East African Community from 2018-2021. President Kagame continues to lead the AU Institutional reforms and serves as the AU Champion for Domestic Health Financing. He is also currently serving a one-year term as the Chairperson of the AUDA-NEPAD Heads of State and Government Orientation Committee. Beginning in 1990, as commander of the forces of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), he led the struggle to liberate Rwanda.

The RPF halted the Genocide against the Tutsi in 1994, which claimed over a million victims. The hallmarks of President Kagame’s administration are peace and reconciliation, women’s empowerment, promotion of investment and entrepreneurship, and access to information technology, a cause he also champions as Co-Chair of the Broadband Commission for Sustainable Development.

He tweets @PaulKagame. You can follow President Kagame’s daily work @UrugwiroVillage.

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Paul Kagame

President of Rwanda since 2000

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Paul Kagame (kə-GAH-may; born 23 October 1957) is a Rwandan politician and former military officer who has been the President of Rwanda since 2000. He was previously a commander of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), a rebel armed force which invaded Rwanda in 1990. The RPF was one of the main belligerents of the Rwandan Civil War and was the armed force which ended the Rwandan genocide. He was considered Rwanda's de facto leader when he was Vice President and Minister of Defence under President Pasteur Bizimungu from 1994 to 2000 after which the vice-presidential post was abolished.

Born to a Tutsi family in southern Rwanda that fled to Uganda when he was two years old, Kagame spent the rest of his childhood there during the Rwandan Revolution, which ended Tutsi political dominance. In the 1980s, Kagame fought in Yoweri Museveni's rebel army becoming a senior Ugandan army officer after many military victories led Museveni to the Ugandan presidency. Kagame joined t

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Paul Kagame

We’d love to know more about your journey and how you came to leave the country you were born in.

Paul Kagame: From the earliest part of my life — close to four years old — that’s when my family went into exile. That was around ‘61. That’s when we became refugees in Uganda, lived in a refugee camp. Camps shifted. We went to different parts of Uganda as refugees, but life was the same to us living in a refugee camp. Of course, that was very difficult from whatever angle we look at it. Family, myself, and others, many other Rwandans, had to go into exile at the time. So the growing end of those conditions was quite an experience that shaped people, their thinking, and even later on, it was both physical and many things.

What was the hardest part about the refugee years?

Paul Kagame: I was a refugee for 25 years almost. The first part — 15, 20 years — were difficult. There’s no question about it. The conditions under which we lived, whether it was feeding the family or going to school, and we used to move on foot, distances, and covering about 10 kilometers, so