Special envoy to Rwanda
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Rwanda was chosen because it is one of the cleanest and safest countries in Africa
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In Masaka, around thirty kilometers from the capital Kigali, David Kamanda, the director of the Research Institute against Cancers of the Digestive System (Ircad), welcomes around thirty African and French entrepreneurs. Before them, he echoes a sentiment that has become a slogan: Rwanda is the Switzerland of Africa. The cliché is worth what it's worth, but it got the better of Jacques Marescaux, at the head of this private French establishment, founded in 1994 in Strasbourg. At first moderately inspired, the professor of medicine ended up choosing this small country as a bridgehead on the black continent.
His son Guillaume, who came on a humanitarian mission, praised his geographical location, its stability and its economic ambitions. The financial arguments of the all-powerful Rwandan president, Paul Kagame, who injected 25 million euros into the operation, did the rest. Inaugurated…
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