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Tanzania’s President banks on Kagame’s son appointed to

prayers as cases drop board of Rwanda’s investment

In Dar es Salaam, residents attest to the re- agency
duction of COVID-19 cases in the East African
nation.
“In fact we are following the general consensus up
to now the people believe that those numbers of people
infected is going down so we can say it’s reducing”, said
Godfrey Matei, a stall keeper at a local market.
The number of cases in Tanzania has not changed
for three weeks. The international community has ex-
pressed worry that the government is hiding the true
scale of the pandemic.
Critics have been arrested and opposition poli-
ticians and right activists say their phones are being
tapped.
Magufuli is now allowing international passenger
flights after halting it in April. Visitors who do not have A son of President Paul Kagame has been appointed
fever will be allowed in. to the board of the Rwanda Development Board, RDB.
The President has refused to shut places of worship 30-year-old Ivan Kagame is the eldest son of his par-
and other gathering places, like pubs and restaurants. ents. The Kagames have four children – three sons and
a daughter.
The RDB is government machinery tasked with
fast tracking the country’s economic development by
enabling private sector growth. The US-educated Ivan
joins as one of four new members announced by the
Prime Minister’s office earlier this week.
In welcoming the new members, the board wrote
about the young Kagame “Ivan Kagame is a partner at
a Venture Capital fund, and co-founder of a leading en-
ergy company.
“Ivan brings a diverse skill set and vast experience
in investment advisory services, entrepreneurship and
investments management both in Africa and the USA.
He holds a Bsc in Economics from Pace university and
an MBA from the Marshall School at the University of
Southern California.”

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