Kagame Held Only 7 Cabinet Meetings But Made 45 Foreign Trips In 2019

The world traveller who rules by remote control from foreign capitals

General Paul Kagame does not live in Rwanda. He is an absentee dictator who runs Rwanda from foreign capitals. 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:

1. October 10, 2019
2. July 29, 2019
3. June 24, 2019
4. June 7, 2019
5. April 24, 2019
6. April 3, 2019
7. January 28, 2019

But see how many foreign trips Kagame has made so far in the past 10 months – 45 trips outside Rwanda.

Here are Kagame’s foreign trips so far in 2019:

1. Doha, Qatar, October 28, 2019
2. Sochi, Russia, October 23, 2019
3. Bangui, CAR, October 15, 2019
4. Abidjan, Ivory Coast, October 14, 2019
5. Marrakech, Morocco, October 12, 2019
6. Bonn, Germany, October 4, 2019
7. Seattle, USA, October 2, 2019
8. New York, USA, September 22–26, 2019
9. Nairobi, Kenya, September 18, 2019
10. Brazzaville, Congo, September 10, 2019
11. Yokohama, Japan, August 28, 2019
12. Biarritz, France, August 25, 2019
13. Luanda, Angola, August 21, 2019
14. Windhoek, Namibia, August 19, 2019
15. Lusaka, Zambia, August 11, 2019
16. London, UK, July 23, 2019
17. Luanda, Angola, July 12, 2019
18. Niamey, Niger, July 7, 2019
19. Gaborone, Botswana June 27, 2019
20. Antananarivo, Madagascar, June 26, 2019
21. Bruxelles, Belgium, June 17, 2019
22. Abuja, Nigeria, June 11, 2019
23. Libreville, Gabon, June 10, 2019
24. Kinshasa, DR Congo, May 31, 2019
25. Pretoria, South Africa, May 25, 2019
26. Paris, France, May 17, 2019
27. Los Angeles, USA, April 30, 2019
28. San Francisco, USA, April 28, 2019
29. Cairo, Egypt, April 23, 2019
30. Saddleback, USA, April 14, 2019
31. New York, USA, April 11, 2019
32. Dakar, Senegal, April 2, 2019
33. Luanda, Angola, March 30, 2019
34. Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania, March 7, 2019
35. Cape Town, South Africa, March 5, 2019
36. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, March 1, 2019
37. Charlotte, USA, February 28, 2019
38. Munich, Germany, February 15, 2019
39. Abu Dhabi, February 13, 2019
40. Dubai, February 12, 2019
41. Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, February 9, 2019
42. Arusha, Tanzania, February 1, 2019
43. Davos, Switzerland, January 24, 2019
44. Addis Ababa, January 17, 2019
45. Tokyo, Japan, January 7, 2019

Stay tuned – 2019 is not yet over.