Sneakers in Rwanda
04 September 2017, 20:33 / Politics / Interview "Is there a democracy without the word" western "at the beginning?" Rwandan President Paul Kagame is a Tutsi survivor of an ethnic minority genocide in which one in five people died, a former refugee and a rebel. Over the 17 years of his reign, GDP has grown almost fivefold, and life expectancy has grown by 18 years, but the president fundamentally does not accept "stereotyped democracy" Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda / Pascal Lauener / REUTERS Paul Kagame, the soldier president of Rwanda, runs arguably the most organized and disciplined society in Africa. The flower beds are immaculate, the villages wear shoes (a special decree was issued for this), and local officials go out of their way to achieve their goals, whether it is to increase cassava yields or reduce deaths during childbirth. But while the system seems to run like clockwork, and the development plan - one of the most ambitious ...