Editor,

I wish to react to Joseph Rwagatare’s article, "Dar’s Rwandan guests, FDLR and plots against a country” (The New Times, January 28).

Aren’t there people in charge of our neighbours’ foreign policy set-up, willing and able to counteract any readiness to listen to the siren songs and inducements that some officials there get every time they fly to Paris?

Or is it in fact Dar es Salaam pushing the anti-Kigali agenda with Paris only too happy to oblige?

Whatever the case, our Mkwele friend seems hell-bent on biting off more than he can safely chew, let alone swallow. And his far-off friends won’t be able to aid him.

Wise people throughout history have cautioned against courting distant friends while alienating very close neighbours.

Mwene Kalinda, Rwanda

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I think Faustin Twagiramungu is after free money, or simply taxpayer’s money. What can all these fellows on welfare assistance in Europe, USA, South Africa and Canada do for Rwanda?

Rwanda is already undeniably on the best and right path toward development; there is very good security and stability. Rwanda is open to every national to come home and there is no discrimination like was the case during the former genocidal regimes.

The "Ndi Umunyarwanda” programme that is currently underway will get rid of all these ethnic divisions. Hatred based on tribalism, size, colour and religion of individuals is the main cause of wars and underdevelopment in Africa.

It is a shame on those greedy leaders of Africa who use or want to use these kinds of shameful cards to get to power – Twagiramungu, the likes and his supporters included in these shaming overtures.

Kim Mazimba, Rwanda

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Our resolve as a country will remain as solid as ever. No one can ever plan evil against Rwanda and escape the repercussions. What happened (the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi) is history and we vowed that it won’t happen again in Rwanda.

Even to some, history is haunting them like a ghost. The future belongs to those who will be positive and look at Rwanda in a constructive rather than a destructive perspective.

James Munanura, Makerere University,Kampala, Uganda