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President Obama says there can be no solution to climate change without China and the United States.
| The United States and China say they will work toward a successful outcome to the December 7–18 climate change summit in Copenhagen and in support of Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen’s call for a comprehensive agreement, President Obama told reporters in Beijing.
"As the two largest consumers and producers of energy, there can be no solution to this challenge without the efforts of both China and the United States," Obama said November 17 in a joint statement with Chinese President Hu Jintao. During their talks, the two leaders made progress on the climate change issue, Obama said. Along with a series of joint initiatives on clean energy, China and the United States agreed to work together to make the Copenhagen conference a success. (Read More) |
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International Education Week 2009 
Public affairs officer giving a gift to all the participants
| On November 16, PAS Kigali kicked off the 10th annual International Education Week (IEW) with a four hour informational presentation on studying in the U.S. This event provided an introduction to the U.S. higher education system and attracted sixty-five secondary school graduates and other young Rwandans aspiring to pursue their studies in the U.S.
The Educational Advisor's presentation focused on the basic requirements a Rwandan prospective student seeking to study in the U.S. should fulfill in order to be admitted to a U.S. college or university. (Read More) |
U.S. Special Advisor Dr. Howard Wolpe’s visit to Rwanda 
Dr. Howard Wolpe
| President Obama’s Special Advisor on Africa’s Great Lakes Region, Dr. Howard Wolpe, visited Rwanda on November 9-10, 2009. Dr. Wolpe met with three Rwandan ministers, including Minister of Education Charles Muligande, Minister of Health Dr. Richard Sezibera and Minister of Defense Gen. Marcel Gatsinzi. The meeting took place at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation.
Addressing journalists after meeting the four ministers in Kigali, Dr. Wolpe said that the aim of his visit was to discuss ways the U.S. can partner with countries in the region to consolidate peace, help with economic integration and strengthen inter-state cohesion.
Dr. Wolpe added that the FDLR armed group operating in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo was a major source of instability. He said it was necessary to maintain military pressure against the FDLR while minimizing the risk to civilians, to accelerate efforts to deal with FDLR leaders in U.S. and Europe, and to work with Rwanda to encourage voluntary repatriation of those FDLR members who had not committed acts of genocide or war crimes.(Read More) |
Deputy Treasury Secretary Wolin visits Rwanda
Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin with President
of Rwanda Paul Kagame after their meeting at the President’s Office
| U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Neal Wolin visited Rwanda from October 29 to November 1, 2009. During his visit he met with Rwandan President Paul Kagame, the Governor of the National Bank François Kanimba, and Minister of Finance James Musoni.
Talking to the press after his meeting with President Kagame, Deputy Secretary Wolin discussed the purpose of his visit and his impressions about the Rwandan economy.
“I am glad to be here in Rwanda. I met President Kagame to discuss ways in which the United States and Rwanda can continue to deepen and strengthen our partnership in important areas such as infrastructure, environment, food security, financial services systems and the overall Rwandan Economy,” he said. (more) |
USAID Team Visits Rwandan Coffee Exporting Company
Emmanuel Harelimana, Deputy Managing Director of Caferwa, in front of Caferwa’s coffee roasting machine
| On October 27, USAID team from Washington, DC visiting Rwanda on an evaluation mission for USAID Development Credit Authority (DCA) guarantee facility with the Bank of Kigali, visited Caferwa, coffee exporting company and one of the Bank of Kigali’s clients that has benefitted from the DCA facility. Under the facility, the U.S. Government provided a guarantee to the Bank of Kigali for loans to Rwanda’s export-oriented agribusinesses looking to finance short-term working capital and medium-term capital investment needs. The facility had the broader goal of increasing access to agricultural finance, thereby, stimulating economic growth in Rwanda. In 2006, Caferwa secured a loan from the Bank and used the funds to buy coffee cherries and to renovate the NKORA coffee washing station in Gisenyi, the biggest coffee washing station in Rwanda which Caferwa had purchased from the Government a few years earlier.
For more information on Caferwa, visit http://caferwa.com/index.html.
For information on DCA, please visit
http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/economic_growth_and_trade/development_credit/index.html. |
Chargé d’Affaires Anne Casper at work | On September 26, 2009, over 20 American and Rwandan staff of the U.S. Embassy, led by Chargé d’Affaires a.i. Anne Casper, joined residents in Masaka for umuganda, the national program that brings local communities together to develop their neighborhoods on the last Saturday of every month. Together, U.S. Embassy staff and the people of Masaka worked to construct the foundation of three new classrooms in the Masaka sector of Kicukiro District. (Read more) |
“No Woman Should Die in Childbirth!”
U.S. Chargé Pledges her Support
Chargé d’ Affaires, Anne Casper addressing the
White Ribbon Alliance General Assembly
| Chargé d’Affaires of the U.S. Embassy in Kigali Anne Casper joined with First Lady Jeannette Kagame, Minister of Health Richard Sezibera, the African Union Ambassador for Maternal Health Dr. Mambo Shabalala Msimanga, and many other concerned women and men in the launch of The White Ribbon Alliance for Safe Motherhood’s Campaign for Accelerated Reduction of Maternal Mortality in Rwanda on September 7, 2009 at the Serena Hotel in Kigali. The White Ribbon Alliance is an international coalition of individuals and organizations formed to promote increased public awareness and action of the need to make pregnancy safe for all women. (more)
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