Rwanda: The Mine and the Factory

May 28, 2026
[New Times] In the hills of Rulindo in northern Rwanda, machines pull 120 tonnes of tungsten ore from the ground every month. Less than 50 kilometres south in Kigali, on May 14, President Paul Kagame opened the Africa CEO Forum before nearly 3,000 business leaders and government officials and delivered a diagnosis as precise as it was uncomfortable: Africa, he said, is rich in everything except leverage.

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