{"id":19281,"date":"2025-09-01T22:09:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-01T22:09:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paulkagame.rw\/?p=19281"},"modified":"2025-09-02T13:10:58","modified_gmt":"2025-09-02T13:10:58","slug":"president-kagame-addresses-africa-food-systems-forum-2025-youth-town-hall-dakar-1-september-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=19281","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame addresses Africa Food Systems Forum 2025 Youth Town Hall | Dakar, 1 September 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"xdj266r x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">&#8220;We have to focus on young people who constitute the largest portion of our population, through education, through financing, through different partnerships so that all these young minds with their innovation and ideas in term of entrepreneurship can thrive.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">But there must be an obligation they feel also as young people. There is no sitting back and waiting until there is a problem and you expect that somebody is going to come and help.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"x14z9mp xat24cr x1lziwak x1vvkbs xtlvy1s x126k92a\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">Young people, my simple message to you is: let\u2019s not run away from problems. Because even where you run to, you will find problems, may be even more problems. Especially when they will send you back where you came from. But alongside that, find a purpose, know there are going to be problems, try and fail but don\u2019t fail to try.&#8221; President Kagame | Africa Food Systems Forum 2025 Youth Town Hall.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We have to focus on young people who constitute the largest portion of our population, through education, through financing, through different partnerships so that all these young minds with their innovation and ideas in term of entrepreneurship can thrive. But there must be an obligation they feel also as young people. There is no sitting back and waiting until there is a problem and you expect that somebody is going to come and help. Young people, my simple message to&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":19282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19281","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19281"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19284,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19281\/revisions\/19284"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19281"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19281"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}