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More Opportunities Lined up For Rwandan Students in South Korea

Rwanda is scheduled to send more students to pursue various academic disciplines in South Korea, Taarifa reports.

President Paul Kagame was today conferred upon a Honorary Doctorate in Public Administration by South Korea’s Yonsei University.

“I would like to thank you for the tremendous honour you have bestowed on me and my country with the award of this honorary doctorate. This is my fourth visit to Korea but my first to the Yonsei campus, I wish that our connection had started much earlier,”Kagame said in his acceptance speech.

The Rwandan leader held a meeting with university admnistration and explored possibility of furthering partnership and increasing the number of Rwandan students there.

Kagame was given a guided tour at the University’s Heavy Ion Therapy Center.

Kagame is in Seoul for the 2024 Korea-Africa Summit guided by the theme; “The Future We Make Together: Shared Growth, Sustainability, and Solidarity.”

Up to 48 African countries were represented at the summit by either a president, king, prime minister, vice president or minister.

Korea said it will commit U$14 billion in export financing to support Korean companies investing in Africa while increasing its official development assistance (ODA) to U$10 billion by 2030.

King Mswati III of Eswatini encouraged Korean business community to invest in any part of the continent. “Choose a location to establish industries. Choose anywhere. We are no longer competing but collaborating.”

President Yoon of Korea summed up the summit as “a new chapter for Korea-Africa relations.”

He also outlined Korea’s areas of interest for support and partnership in Africa: digitalisation, e-government, education and capacity building, climate change, food security and critical minerals.

A Korea-Africa critical minerals dialogue is scheduled to be inaugurated later this year.

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