By David Himbara
Kagame has held only 7 cabinet meetings versus 42 foreign trips in 2019. This is insane. The closest to Kagame’s lifestyle is Cameroon president Paul Biya who runs his country from a Geneva hotel. Kagame is in fact worse than Biya.
The latter at least stays in one place – Switzerland. Kagame is all over the world from Cape Town to Bonn, from Tokyo to Seattle, and all in between.
Here are the 7 times Kagame convened cabinet meetings with his ministers in 2019:
- October 10, 2019
- July 29, 2019
- June 24, 2019
- June 7, 2019
- April 24, 2019
- April 3, 2019
- January 28, 2019
But see how many foreign trips Kagame has made so far in the past 10 months – 42 trips outside Rwanda.
Here are Kagame’s foreign trips so far in 2019:
- Abidjan, Ivory Coast, October 14, 2019
- Marrakech, Morocco, October 12, 2019
- Bonn, Germany, October 4, 2019
- Seattle, USA, October 2, 2019
- New York, USA, September 22–26, 2019
- Nairobi, Kenya, September 18, 2019
- Brazzaville, Congo, September 10, 2019
- Yokohama, Japan, August 28, 2019
- Biarritz, France, August 25, 2019
- Luanda, Angola, August 21, 2019
- Windhoek, Namibia, August 19, 2019
- Lusaka, Zambia, August 11, 2019
- London, UK, July 23, 2019
- Luanda, Angola, July 12, 2019
- Niamey, Niger, July 7, 2019
- Gaborone, Botswana June 27, 2019
- Antananarivo, Madagascar, June 26, 2019
- Bruxelles, Belgium, June 17, 2019
- Abuja, Nigeria, June 11, 2019
- Libreville, Gabon, June 10, 2019
- Kinshasa, DR Congo, May 31, 2019
- Pretoria, South Africa, May 25, 2019
- Paris, France, May 17, 2019
- Los Angeles, USA, April 30, 2019
- San Francisco, USA, April 28, 2019
- Cairo, Egypt, April 23, 2019
- Saddleback, USA, April 14, 2019
- New York, USA, April 11, 2019
- Dakar, Senegal, April 2, 2019
- Luanda, Angola, March 30, 2019
- Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, March 7, 2019
- Cape Town, South Africa, March 5, 2019
- Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, March 1, 2019
- Charlotte, USA, February 28, 2019
- Munich, Germany, February 15, 2019
- Abu Dhabi, February 13, 2019
- Dubai, February 12, 2019
- Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 9, 2019
- Arusha, Tanzania, February 1, 2019
- Davos, Switzerland, January 24, 2019
- Addis Ababa, January 17, 2019
- Tokyo, Japan, January 7, 2019
Stay tuned – 2019 is not yet over.