President Kagame: Governance shortfalls causing insecurity

Internally Displaced People in Mozambique.

Internally Displaced People board a military vehicle in Mozambique. PHOTO | COURTESY | RWANDA DEFENCE FORCES (RDF)

Rwandan President Paul Kagame says countries must prioritise strengthening governance to create sustainable peace to achieve development as external interventions including military have largely failed to restore stability not only in Africa but elsewhere, with the most recent being the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban.

Last week, speaking virtually at the Global Security Forum 2021 hosted by Qatar on October 12, President Kagame argued that while the nature of insecurity threats has evolved and devastated countries, the global system for dealing with these threats including United Nations interventions remain ineffective.