Isabelle Kalisa

I am deeply grateful @sacstate for erecting a permanent #genocide monument on its campus. This will spur and continue to be a catalyst for young and future generations to learn & commit to fighting against genocide and genocide denial. Thank for your unwavering support and solidarity through several decades as we continue to commemorate the 1994 #Genocide against the Tutsi. Thankful as well to all partners, Friends of Rwanda Association, Ibuka USA, and the Rwandan community in California whose commitment made this possible. #Kwibuka32

LE TOGO SUPPRIME LE VISA POUR TOUS LES AFRICAINS ! Le Togo franchit une étape historique dans le renforcement de l’intégration africaine. Désormais, tous les ressortissants des États africains détenteurs d’un passeport national valide peuvent entrer sur le territoire togolais sans visa, pour un séjour allant jusqu’à 30 jours. À travers cette réforme majeure, le Président du Conseil réaffirme sa volonté de faire du Togo un espace d’ouverture, de mobilité, d’opportunités et de coopération au cœur du continent africain. Les voyageurs doivent toutefois effectuer leur déclaration de voyage sur la plateforme officielle voyage.gouv.tg au moins 24 heures avant leur arrivée afin d’obtenir leur bordereau de voyage. Le Togo confirme ainsi son leadership en matière d’intégration régionale et de rapprochement des peuples africains. #Togo #Afrique #integration #Libre #panafricanism #voyage #cooperation

🙏 The curtain has fallen on the Africa CEO Forum Annual Summit 2026, and what unfolded over these two days in Kigali, on 14 and 15 May, will continue to shape conversations across the continent and well beyond it for months to come. 🌍 To the Heads of State, ministers, CEOs, investors, speakers, moderators and delegates who took to our stages and filled our rooms, thank you. From megaprojects to pan-African ownership, from productivity to the future of African capital, you turned three thematic axes and eight value chains into living debates, and gave Kigali the kind of substance that defines an edition. 🤝 To our partners, whose conviction makes everything we do possible, our founder Jeune Afrique Media Group, our host country Rwanda and the @RDBrwanda , our co-host the @IFCAfrica, our main partner @SchneiderElec, and every diamond, platinum, gold, institutional, industry, knowledge and media partner whose name graced our screens, your trust is not transactional, it is foundational, and we carry it with the seriousness it deserves. 🏛️ To the @CntrKigali, the @RadissonKigali, @CityofKigali, and the Rwandan teams who welcomed two thousand delegates with a precision and warmth that only this city seems able to combine, and to the journalists who covered every panel, every quote and every corridor conversation, thank you for turning logistics into hospitality and reporting into a record. 📺 To the tens of thousands of viewers who followed us live, from offices, airports, factories and farms across the continent and the diaspora, your presence behind the screens is part of what gives this Forum its weight, because the conversation is not confined to the room, it belongs to you too. 💬 So we hand the next chapter back to you. What landed? What stayed with you? Which idea, which moment, which speaker do you want to carry into the year ahead? Drop your reflections in the comments, we are reading every one. 📍Kigali, 14–15 May 2026. Until next year. #ACF2026 #AfricaCEOForum

💰 Africa is sitting on between 380 and 400 billion dollars of insurance assets under management. The capital exists. The infrastructure to channel it into the continent's own development does not. That gap framed the intervention of Dr @Rubangutsangabo, Group Managing Director and CEO of AfricaRe, the largest pan-African reinsurance company, speaking on the finance panel at the Africa CEO Forum Annual Summit in Kigali. 📊 Look beneath the headline figure and the imbalance is staggering. Seventy per cent of those assets sit in South Africa alone, where insurance penetration reaches 60% of GDP. Across the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, that ratio falls to roughly 1%. And within the South African pool, 70% is life insurance, exactly the long-duration capital whose cash flow profile is built to match infrastructure tenors. The continent already has the right kind of money. It is concentrated in the wrong place, and almost nowhere is it being deployed where it is most needed. ⚙️ The mirror inside the industry is just as telling. Across the rest of the continent, allocation to infrastructure sits near zero. Karekezi made the point with disarming honesty by pointing to his own balance sheet. Africa Re manages around 2.4 billion dollars in assets, and the infrastructure line item is zero. The constraint is not appetite. It is architecture. Insurance regulators impose capital charges and liquidity requirements that make long-term infrastructure exposure punishingly expensive on the books. 🏛️ The unlock is therefore regulatory and continental. Karekezi pointed to the work under way with the African Development Bank on the Abidjan Consensus and the New African Financial Architecture for development, with a clear target. Bring African insurance regulators around one table, agree a common allocation of up to 2% of assets to regional infrastructure projects, and the continent suddenly has billions of dollars of patient African capital ready to champion African megaprojects. #ACF2026

President Kagame in Kenya for #AfricaForward Summit.

➡️In a few days, Kigali will once again welcome the Africa CEO Forum, one of the continent’s most important platforms for public-private dialogue, investment, and deal-making. This year’s theme, “The Scale Imperative: Why Africa Must Embrace Shared Ownership,” speaks directly to the moment Africa is in. Fragmented success is no longer enough. To compete globally, we must build larger markets, stronger value chains, deeper pools of capital, and companies with the ambition and capacity to operate across borders. For Rwanda, hosting the Forum reflects our ambition to serve as a gateway for investment, logistics, services, and innovation, the destination connecting global capital with African opportunity, and helping turn dialogue into action. We look forward to welcoming business leaders, investors, policymakers, and partners from across Africa and the world to Kigali on 14–15 May.

🏆🚲 Kigali, Rwanda, receives the UCI Bike City Label, becoming the first African city to earn the distinction. A landmark moment connecting Africa through #cycling and following Kigali’s role in hosting the 2025 UCI Road World Championships. #CyclingForAll

5️⃣ Big 5 🌴 Incredible views ❤️ Unforgettable stories Looking back at eight years of our partnership with Visit Rwanda 🤝

It’s officially here! 🌱 Phase 3 of the #ImaliAgriChallenge is officially LIVE and we are waiting for the next generation of agripreneurs transforming Rwanda’s agriculture! From seed funding to mentorship, this is your chance to grow your agribusiness, adopt smart agri-tech, boost productivity, and create real jobs ! If you’re 18–30, already running an agri project, and ready to scale impact across the value chain sustainably, this is your season to plant, grow, and harvest BIG. Applications are open from May 6 to June 6, 2026. Apply and find more information here: imbutofoundation.org/imali/apply/ #ImaliAgriChallenge #ImbutoEngages

🎥In partnership with the @UN Department of Global Communications and @stannswarehouse, @RwandaUN invites you to watch “Inside Hate Radio: The Broadcast That Helped Kill.” The short film reflects on the dangers of #HateSpeech and the Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines (#RTLM)’s central role in fueling the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. 🔗Watch on Youtube: youtu.be/izDR4W68txE?si…

“Mwe bato, mumenye ko ukuri n’ubwo tuvuga ko guca mu ziko ntigushye ndetse igihe cyose gutsinda umwijima, ariko ntikwirwanirira. Bisaba abantu bahaguruka bakagushyira ahagaragara, bakoresheje ubwenge n’ubushishozi kuko abarwanya ukuri bahora bashakisha uko bayobya abantu.” Ubutumwa bwa Nyakubahwa Madamu Jeannette Kagame bugaruka ku nshingano zo Kwibuka, ubutwari bw’abarokotse Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi bwo gukomeza guharanira kubaho ndetse n’inshingano buri munyarwanda afite zo gukunda igihugu, kurinda ukuri kw’amateka yacu, no gukomeza kwimana u Rwanda. Mushobora gusoma ubutumwa bwose hano: imbutofoundation.org/umurage-ku-bat… #Kwibuka32

“We do not say ‘Never Again’ because we believe that the ill has been eradicated, nor that the fight is over; we say ‘Never Again’ because we have embraced the reality of a perpetual resistance against the recurrence of the evil that tried to break us, to erase us.” - First Lady Mrs Jeannette Kagame As we continue #Kwibuka32, Her Excellency reflects on the enduring responsibility of remembrance, the courage of survivors, and the duty of every generation to defend truth. Read the full op-ed here: imbutofoundation.org/rwandas-rememb…

A night to remember in London A Gorilla Story: Told by David Attenborough came to life on the IMAX screen as guests from across the UK and around the world gathered for a truly special premiere 🦍 A celebration of conservation and Rwanda’s biodiversity 🇷🇼🌿 #VisitRwanda

Muri Kaminuza y'u Rwanda, Ishami rya Huye hari kubera igikorwa cyo #Kwibuka32 Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi mu 1994. Haribukwa abari abanyeshuri n’abakozi b’iyahoze ari Kaminuza Nkuru y’u Rwanda, bishwe muri Jenoside yakorewe Abatutsi mu 1994. Ni igikorwa kiri kubera ku Rwibutso ruruhukiyemo imibiri 563 y'Abatutsi bazize Jenoside, muri yo 429 ni yo habashije kumenyekana amazina ya ba nyirayo. #RBAAmakuru

In Greater Manchester, HC @BusingyeJohns joined MP @RLong_Bailey, @salford_mayor Paul Dennett, local leaders, Rwandans,& friends of Rwanda to lay wreaths at the Memorial Stone in St. Stephen’s Garden, Salford,honoring the victims of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi. #Kwibuka32

Georges Ruggiu, a Belgian of Italian descent, remains the only “Muzungu génocidaire” convicted for his role in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi. As a journalist at the infamous RTLM, an extremist radio station, he used the airwaves to incite the population to take part in the genocide &massacre the Tutsi. Ruggiu joined fellow presenters in spreading hatred& dehumanization, calling Tutsi “cockroaches,” revealing their hiding places, and telling listeners there were “graves to be filled.” #Kwibuka32

“At ETO, the Tutsi were NOT ABANDONED by the #UNAMIR peacekeepers, they were HANDED OVER to the killers” @martin_ngogac, Rwanda’s Permanent Representative to the #UN, at #Kwibuka32 on April 11, Billerica, MA, USA.

Join us today for the ‘Walk to Remember’ On April 11, 1994, over 2,000 Tutsi were forced from the former ETO Kicukiro on a systematic "Death March" to Nyanza Hill. Abandoned by the world and pursued by grenades, guns machetes and other weapons. Today, we walk in their memory. 📍 IPRC Kigali → Nyanza-Kicukiro Memorial 🕒 3PM #Kwibuka32

Ce jour-là, en 1994, le monde a abandonné le #Rwanda. Les Casques bleus belges se sont retirés de l'école ETO Kicukiro, à Kigali, laissant des milliers de Tutsis qu'ils protégeaient être massacrés par les milices Interahamwe. #Kwibuka32