Kagame to visit Malawi to hold bilateral talks with Chakwera

Rwandan President Paul Kagame is due to arrive in Malawi on August 11 2020 for a two-day official visit in what would be viewed as a show of confidence from international leaders, Nyasa Times has learnt.

President Kagame: Here I come

According to an officials at Foreign Affairs ministry,  President Lazarus Chakwera and First Lady Monica Chakwera will host the Rwandan leader and his wife “on a 2 days state visit beginning on the 11th of August, 2020 at New State House in Lilongwe. “

The Malawi and Rwandan leader are expected to hold bilateral talks.

Kagame last visited Malawi in 2007 when Bingu wa Mutharika was president and  inaugurated a  3.3km road named after him.

Chakwera, who won the June 23 fresh presidential election, recently said  he had spoken sto Kagame “as part of my quest to forge strategic partnerships towards the strengthening of Capable Democratic Developmental States across the Great Rift Valley.”

He said the aim is “to leverage the bounties of our natural and human resources for the shared prosperity of our peoples.”

Kagame is revered for stopping Rwanda’s genocide and engineering what admirers call an economic miracle.

In 2000, Kagame inherited a country that had been torn apart by genocide. But he has rebuilt the country to a stable, prosperous, unified and, in large part, reconciled.

Social services, such as education, healthcare, housing and livestock are  provided to the needy, with no distinction of ethnicity or region of origin – two forms of discrimination that characterised the governments leading up to the genocide against the Tutsi, which Kagame, as leader of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), brought to an end.

But his critics see a despot who crushes all opposition and rules through fear

Chakwera, on his part is advancing a mantra of clearing the rubble that has put Malawi into ruins under the previous regime of Democratic Progressive Party (DPP).

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Micheal Mugabo
Micheal Mugabo
4 years ago

My people Rwanda of Kagame has nothing to teach Malawi. I am Rwandan and knows better that all about Kagame and his propaganda. Kagame is ruthless killer who is still assassinating political opponents. He runs a war in Congo for minerals, and he lies to get donors money to build his own buildings in Kigali Central, just to show off, while the majority of Rwandans are starving and don’t even have clean water.
Never wish Malawi to emulate Kagame’s ways, it very dangerous.

Sana
Sana
4 years ago

Kagame does not associate with mediocrity which, as we have seen so far, is at the heart of Chakwera’s administration. That is why he has rescinded his decision to come to Malawi. Mwagwa nayo.

Munthu mlala
Munthu mlala
4 years ago

This is fake news. It appears Nyasatimes is also a spreader of fake news like social media. Be serious please if you need to be taken seriously as a News platform.

Vuna
Vuna
4 years ago
Reply to  Munthu mlala

It is not fake news, Kagame was scheduled to come BUT he has changed his decision after seeing that Chakwera is clueless. Kagame does not want to be associated with stupidity and hypocrisy. MUSOVA.

Ngombwax
Ngombwax
4 years ago
Reply to  Munthu mlala

I totally agree!!

Kumz
Kumz
4 years ago

Him Kagame is intelegent,he has built a VISION city in Kigali,emulate this gesture from him our President Chakwera.

NTCHANA
NTCHANA
4 years ago

Rwanda is doing very fine, but why do we still have Rwandan Refugees in Malawi?

anonymous
anonymous
4 years ago
Reply to  NTCHANA

Because it isn’t. In fact, the area in which Rwanda is excelling well is propaganda. It is good at projecting an image of itself which lures people into believing that its president Kagame has accomplished miracles, though the majority of his citizens are living in worse conditions than they were before the 1994 genocide.

Burundi
Burundi
4 years ago
Reply to  anonymous

Bodza akulu inu bwanji….

Issa Tukise Ndoba
Issa Tukise Ndoba
4 years ago
Reply to  anonymous

Are you serious? I think there is sometging wrong in your brain. Anyway, I am from Rwanda and live in Kigali. We in Rwanda do not use propaganda as you are saying but results are saying themselves. The problem for you is maybe the jealous that characterize many people. Try to have positive jealous that will lead or direct you to copy what my hero is doing in Rwanda and for Rwandans. Of course my hero is P Kagame

Baba Tunde
Baba Tunde
4 years ago
Reply to  anonymous

You’re obviously deluded and haven’t visited Rwanda. Go to Kigali and compare it with your dusty Lilongwe. Visit any government school or hospital in Rwanda and compare it with the nyasi you have in Malawi. Visit any public office in Rwanda and marvel at their efficiency. Go to lake Kivu and admire the quality of hotels there. The roads in Rwanda are tarred and have streetlights, even in low income neighbourhoods. The country attracts serious investors VW, Marriott, Radisson Blu, IBM, CISCO all have branches in Rwanda. Those Rwandese you see in Malawi are cadets who were hacking others with… Read more »

Desderata Marmite
Desderata Marmite
4 years ago

Before indulging in blind friendship, the current government needs to sit back and think carefully. In most cases it pays maintaining already established diplomatic ties. Sit back and delve deeply the origins of the economic bedrock of Rwanda, find out why their troops are still part of the protracted war being fought in DRC. I worked in DRC with Rwandan troops and therefore have first-hand information for their interests in that country. One shouldn’t be cheated that their administration in Kigali is excellent based on their expert utilisation of their local resources, never. They are basically conduits of the western… Read more »

The Judge
The Judge
4 years ago

Bodza ili, oh and you are there telling us,,oh I was working with troops in DRC, so what? Are you now DRC?

Kwa
Kwa
4 years ago
Reply to  The Judge

Judge spend some time reading and indeed you will find out a lot about Rwandas dealings. Desperate is correct on this one.

Willie
Willie
4 years ago

Nonsense

Baba Tunde
Baba Tunde
4 years ago

Desiderata you’re just a hater!
If DRC is not able to use it’s own resources to develop it’s own people let’s not blame Rwanda.
DRC has had those minerals since the days of Mobutu Seseseko and what tangible development did they achieve?
If Rwanda is benefiting, that’s better than sending everything to Belgium and France which is what DRC Dictators including Kabila have always done.
Let Kagame teach us his ways

Namvula Moyo
Namvula Moyo
4 years ago
Reply to  Baba Tunde

Let Paul Kagame teach you how to steal! Crazy you!

Namvula Moyo
Namvula Moyo
4 years ago

Kagame contributions to the newly elected President was a big $1,000,000 USA . go figure the teaching of loopholes of elections finances..

CULTURE
CULTURE
4 years ago

Any new person in the office of the president do such things, it is a normal approach.

444444No
444444No
4 years ago

Samalani Naye uyu,of you have some strategies on hardcopy don’t you b bewitched to reveal to him your plans, he took away our vision 2020 strategies c now Malawi is still in 1927 yet

Itsanana
Itsanana
4 years ago
Reply to  444444No

Vision 2020 failed due to umbava starting from Bakili Muluzi’s regime. Nobody told Malawians to start stealing taxpayers money to enrich themselves.

Wooloomooloo
Wooloomooloo
4 years ago

Ndiye kuti PEDEGU alamulila bwino koopsya
Magufuli anakopela kwa Kagame
Zosamawaonetsa dzino aHUMAN RIGHTS or HRDC
Chifukwa amatumidwa kumalimbikitsa zopppussssa mdziko
Monga zaMATHANYULA ndizina

Wooloomooloo
Wooloomooloo
4 years ago

Kagame ????

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