Formula 1 is coming to the Land of a Thousand Hills! 🏎️🇷🇼 Rwanda looks forward to welcoming the world for the African Grand Prix, presented by #VisitRwanda, from the early 2030s. 🤝 @F1

Rwanda is building an airport big enough for every person in the country to fly through it once a year. About 14 million people live there. The new airport is designed for 14 million passengers a year. The one they have now handles around 2 million. So how do you fill that thing? You go get Formula 1. The track F1 just announced goes in Bugesera, about 40km south of Kigali, right next to that new $2 billion airport. It's a 10-year deal starting in the early 2030s, and it'll be the first Grand Prix in Africa since 1993. Now look at who owns the airport. Qatar Airways has 60% of it. Qatar Airways is also F1's official airline. This is where it gets really smart, because Qatar has done this exact thing before. Doha opened Hamad International in 2014 and spent the next decade giving the world reasons to land there, with a World Cup in 2022 and a Grand Prix locked in through 2032. Hamad now handles over 50 million passengers a year in a country of about 3 million people. Rwanda is basically running Qatar's playbook with Qatar as its business partner. And Rwanda has been setting this up for years. Visit Rwanda, the country's tourism board, got its logo on Arsenal's sleeve back in 2018 for a reported £10 million a year, and later added PSG, Bayern and Atlético. Kigali hosted the FIA's big awards night in 2024, which is where President Kagame first said out loud he wanted a race. The next year it hosted cycling's world championships, the first time they'd ever been held in Africa. It hosted 165 international conferences last year alone. Tourism brought in $685 million last year from 1.49 million visitors, and gorilla treks were $248 million of that by themselves. For Rwanda that's real money. But you can't fill a 14 million passenger airport with people coming to see gorillas, so the country keeps buying bigger pieces of the world's attention. South Africa wanted this race too. It has the history, the old Kyalami circuit, and a sports minister who kept saying F1 was coming back. Talks there stalled over problems with the local promoter. Rwanda walked in with government money behind it and a former F1 driver, Alexander Wurz, already drawing the track. People are going to have strong feelings about this one. Arsenal and Visit Rwanda wrapped up their sleeve deal after last season, following fan protests and a letter from DR Congo's foreign minister calling the club's sponsorship "blood-stained." Five months later, the same tourism board's name is on the title of a Formula 1 race. Critics have called the whole Visit Rwanda strategy sportswashing for years. Kagame's pitch today was about young Africans finally getting to watch the sport at home and picture themselves in it as engineers, and one day as drivers. The airport is supposed to open in 2028, with the first race a few years after that. If the plan works, a country smaller than Maryland becomes one of the places people across Africa change planes, and the airline that already pulled that off in the Gulf will own most of the terminal.

“We are not too small for anything!” ~ President Kagame

🚨 | BREAKING! F1 is set to return to Africa after 37 years, with Rwanda expected to join the calendar in 2030. An agreement has reportedly been reached for a new permanent circuit to be built around 40km from Kigali. An official announcement could come later this year. 📰 @Racingnews365c

I wish you a good international retirement #GOAT 🐐! @FIFAWorldCup will never be the same without you! #LionelMessi🇦🇷 #VisitRwanda🇷🇼

PUBLIC TRANSPORT IN DIFFERENT AFRICAN CITIES😂😂😂

This morning in Doha, President Kagame met with His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani @TamimBinHamad to convey his condolences on the passing of his beloved father, His Highness the Father Amir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, and to express his solidarity with the people of Qatar during this time of mourning.

No Oil. No Ocean. Rwanda is making moves. The kind most African countries needs to be making right now. @RwandaisOpen

President Kagame attended the 75th edition of NBA All-Star Game in Los Angeles.

When Rwanda wins, Africa wins! In a world where global cooperation is dwindling, Africa needs to stand together! But it takes one thing.. leadership and character! Today, Rwanda is lucky to have both!

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The Rwandan 🇷🇼 government has built 793 houses for homeless Rwandans and those living in high-risk areas. The government has handed over 310 houses to 172 families with full documents so far. The houses cost 4.2 million dollars to build.

Rwanda 🇷🇼 is showing off weapons made by the local company REMCO. These include military vehicles, guns, bullets, and drones. It's a big step in building the country’s defense industry.

One of the President Kagame’s videos that never gets Old. 🎥France24 | 06th, April 2014

Other nations should learn from Rwanda’s governance model. Actions are louder than words. #RwandaWorks

In just 15 years, Rwanda has increased its electricity access to 75% from 6% in 2009. The country has connected 100% of health centers and administrative facilities, and 84% of schools – World Bank 1/2 worldbank.org/en/news/featur…

Rarest ancient Rwandan lifestyle Footage you probably didn’t know!♥️🇷🇼✨

Every now and then, it really hits. You sit back and realize that what this man has done is beyond normal. Taking a country that was divided to its core, dirt poor, landlocked, written off by the world. Carrying a history sooo heavy most would have crumbled under it, and turning it into something no one thought possible. A country that makes you dream, makes you proud, and respected. Then you realize, being a small nation never meant being a small people. Protect this man at all costs!