Rwanda: Tackling the challenge of overpopulation • FRANCE 24 English
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- Опубліковано 5 тра 2022
- Africa's demographic growth is having a considerable impact on the continent's capital cities. Kigali, for example, is set to double its population by 2050. In one of the most densely populated areas in the world, authorities are trying to organise this growth in terms of urban planning and economics. Rwanda, which holds great ambitions on the continent, has plans to turn Kigali into Africa’s major international hub of business and finance.
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Kigali is at a similiar stage of London 100 years ago. When Londoners in the slums were moved to newly built suburbs and housing estates for new urban planning in the central zones.
London in the 60s and 70s
High density developments must allow mixed land use. They need to mix schools, clinics, stores, etc into the development to provide services and jobs for the residents...
They have. The reporter didn't cover.
Rwanda is trying so much, they have built modern homes for people who otherwise could never afford to live in such homes, this media house is trying so much to find faults but on this one we can read through the fine print.
In democratic societies governments are not afraid of the media because they theoretically answer to the people.
It’s France.. what do you expect? The most hypocritical, colonialist, evil country…
I promise you that this is not the actual whole Look of Kigali, Western media do their best to paint Africa as a poor and bad-looking place but there are actually nice and safe neighborhoods and infrastructures in Africa
They only show Rural area. But in Europe they show us London eye, Paris tower and so other man beauty of nation but when it comes to Africa uhhhhmmm. It's as if we live in bushes
Plus there is no over population in Rwanda
They're obsessed with filming African poverty.
@@jonkite0071 what else do you want them to show you? The miss Rwanda or women's volleyball scandal?
@@_trust9994 Mpbaaaa, people love violence😂😂😂😂
That's what we call progress, moving forward in life and I think Rwanda 🇷🇼 should be a model for the rest of the continent in that aspect. Please leaders of AFRICA stop the corruption and start thinking about progress just like the great Rwanda. May God bless Rwanda and its great leaders.
I guess some just hate to see the progress in Africa as France 24 apparently does.
You don't know what you are talking about,
Where are they getting money to develop that country,
Where the hutus tribe people,
Ask the story they will tell you
@@yampanyamulenda9377 STFU!!! RWANDA IS AWESOME!
@@yampanyamulenda9377 😂😂😂😂come on! Stop this hate nonsense
@@ironman5034 chut up you criminal,
You are acting like someone who is sharing a bed with his parents
Love the vision! Despite many distractors, Rwanda keeps forging forward while other African giants have stagnated!
If they "gave" him an actual apartment in exchange for a hand built shack then he came out ahead
Very much so
It's not that easy
He needs a job.
@@Josee2030 0
@@openmindedalwayz2488 facts
Amazing
Keep up the good work Rwanda 🇷🇼
#RwandaWorks
👌👌👌👏👏👏
God bless AFRICA and our brothers and sisters. Keep RINSING
As they say, rinse and repeat.
This problem is in all part of the world. People should mind more of their business.
Birthrates vary a lot. Africa's biggest problem is its ridiculously high birthrate.
@@davidz3879 the continent has enough resources to provide for it's people but western theft is a never ending impediment.
@@44axum90 It has nowhere near enough. It has a severe population surplus due to irresponsible refusal to use contraception. The West donates a huge quantity of food as the problem worsens to due it population increasing at an ridiculous rate. If Ethiopia had a population of 20m instead of 120m, there'd be far more than enough food for all its people & it could be prosperous by exporting food.
What an eye opening short documentary! Well done….God Bless Rwanda and its people🙏🏼👋🏼🇨🇦
It's a good strategy although, we did not know how it began, who encounters all the costs, or they are for rent. So that we could buy it for our communities in different countries
It amazes me how much effort France and French talking heads puts into bashing Rwanda. Its as if you are retaliating for them calling you out for your role in the genocide that occurred there. I'm curious, have you done the same reporting for The Netherlands, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore or any other nation that is more densely populated or is this your attempt to continually portray African countries in a bad light?
I thought it was a fair representation... what was the issue with the report
Stop crying
I don't see any bashing, they report was well balanced and informative.
This video talks about challenges of overpopulation Rwanda is facing and will face and how Rwanda is adapting with the changes.
You don't have tge capacity to understand this video. Go and play Fortnite.
I could not find the connection between the story and overpopulation. Where is the overpopulation? Rwanda is doing very well. At least they are not on the street like the homeless on the street of USA and Europe.
It’s just the Eurocentric age old fear of being outnumbered, the same Europeans that are trying to raise their birth rates are going to talk about over population
You can't listen to France24 about Africa. They are one of the worst channels, second only to BBC Africa.
@@idy1172 no, europeans are afraid that 4 billions of africans in 40 years will mean that 100s of millions will try to relocate there.
@@WillieFungo the question is why we are even listening to external broadcast, by now the African Union should have made an African version of Aljahzzera
The connection was about lack of housing and jobs for the people.
Rwanda's population density is similar to the Netherlands.
That is a lot!
no its not: Africa standards is not Netherlands.
Africa dont have struggle wombs. AND THAT IS THE ISSUE they want everybody to be mediocre like them.
we should wear sunscreen,hats, and sunglasses, because they arent sun-proof, we should be infertile like them. Fck THEM
Netherlands is frozen tundra. Rwanda climate is perfection. TOO BAD !! too BAD
Why is Rwanda taking in refugees if they have a challenge?? Nonsense
Because they would be paid a lot of money to take in those people
@@marilenaganea6578 Seriously? They have already other refugees from different places. Afganistan, Libya and so on. They are very organized.
Those small countries in Europe like Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark . . don't have refugees?
we are not selfish.
Perspective.
Because we need people to do all this decades' work that is being talked about. Ain't no such thing as overpopulation.
This is great effort government of Rwanda 🇷🇼.
God’s bless government of Rwanda 🇷🇼
Rwanda is upcoming!!! I'd love to invest in them. Helps both of us!
Mind your own business and pay Haiti back the money you owe.
I am looking forward to coming to Rwanda and invest in affordable housing.
@@joelsichela Zambia is sold out to foreigners
@@ramlaramadhan8235 that's not true
@@joelsichela Rwanda is better bakamba
Do not make the same mistake as the US. Decommodify and build more housing units. Upzone the towns.
Same
Even in the U.S all land belong to the government and the apartments are owned by companies attached to the government. The people own nothing apart from their cars which they even pay on installments. Africa is paradise, everything belongs to the people
Lol paradise, you say? You are either a troll or so naive.
More like, all land belongs to the corporations, the government is selling more land to these same corporations. Then these real estate companies come to build giant suburbs full of single family homes at expensive rates.
And NIMBYs are lobbying to block any new housing, especially apartments and high rises, since it will lower their property values.
Selfishness and profit reign supreme over the needs of the people.
Liar.
For now but it’s changing over here too
They will get there they knows what is needed and they are implementing it 💯👍🏽hats of to leadership
Rwanda is smashing it. I am excited to see how things go.
The Europeans will always paint a negative picture of Africa, especially African countries that are not bowing to their demands, those are the facts. Paul kagame is a new breed of positive African leaders and Europe is not happy about that.
Come out of Colonial Victim Mentality.
No African government has a concern for its people apart from rwanda. Other countries benefit from colonialists development and here is Rwanda rising from civil war to such a country that is trying its best. It has never happened in Africa. Kudos to Rwanda. Any complains are just a non-appreciation
What colonialist development? Lol
Botswana has been like this since independence
@@yoboiboy4182 i was just about to educate him that 🇧🇼 is a typical black nation built from the ground up by a black men who said black people cant build anything by themselves give them botswana
Colonialist development? Don't forget it's the exploitation of Africa's resources, including human resources that's responsible for those few developments, most of which were designed to benefit the colonialists.
Always France looks so interested ahhhh
We know you guys
it's the usual France 24 in africa
we know their intentions.
People should stop the greediness. And think about serving humanity righteously.
revolutionary changes of course they come gradually, its our Africa with its challenges. kudos Rwanda
Exactly 👍🏾
Keep up the good work Rwanda haters are always going to hate. This is France always coming to cause trouble between Rwandan people and then you run when your divisive behaviour raises hell. Let Rwanda people be.
I don't see anything in this video pertaining to "overpopulation". Bait title
This is amazing..... nobody ever gave me a flat. No government, relative or friend ever gave me anything....... I had to work for everything I own.......
The flats are compensation, not a gift.
@@biulaimh3097 compensation for a mud shack that was about to come down in a landslide???? Brilliant!!!
@@jaycristoval6155 It was fair compensation. Their former properties had value because they were closer to Kigali`s city center.
Unless you raised yourself in the wild, someone gave you something. No such thing as self-made.
@@jaycristoval6155 why do u guys keep saying mud shack? You’re trying to paint a narrative.
The headline is clickbait. Rwanda is in fact grappling with urbanization, arguably better than many countries in Africa. The headline narrowly and perhaps mischievously characterizes the problem as simply overpopulation.
Rwanda model can make Africa better and paradise continent, i am planing to visit soon
Journalists are sometimes enemies of progress. There is a price for everything if you want to achieve greatness. you are talking about problems, but, you don't mention solutions provided by the Government. Anyways, there will always be negativity around every struggle or fight. But, thanks for highlighting some of the good things our country has achieved.
Why are you criticizing the media in this case? It was a mostly positive story of Rwandan success and investment in the future. Yes they raised a few concerns about debt levels, over-population and poor people losing their farmlands but that is a job of journalists, to provide a complete story. It was mostly positive and they said Rwanda is one of the best countries in Africa.
That's the truth. I like how you journalist visit the area involved. There's others different
Morale of the story is that you can never make someone happy
They keep building homes like they r in villages. Rwanda is in a fertile land and Africans should co-operate to preserve such lands for food production and give land to populations for urban development even if it's in a different country separated by lines drawn up by some yt man.
They have been trying bully their way into annexing eastern Congo for decades but we're not having it.
But realistically they cannot do that. Truthfully though, it is time to sit down and dissolve these borders.
Really! Is this all you can try to show? Rwanda was ruled by the colonialists and all they did was to under-develop the country. Rwandan people have now moved to help their people. Whatever you wish to come up with this report is so far fetched . Let Rwanda do it’s own development. Congrats Rwanda 🙏🏿
Indeed. While the West is getting paralyzed by a worsening housing crisis, it is time for Rwanda to build thousands more housing units.
rwanda and belgium have roughly the same size and population
It’s pointless to build a city for people to rent if the citizens cannot afford the rent or means of feeding themselves
Good luck Rwanda!
Rwanda is best country in terms of security , green country, well governed , hub of busness , loved presindent, well developed and more on that you have to know that we get all those in only 28 years ago , so the reporter has hiden interest becouse she showed maybe a small place in bad village, and it is nothing big becouse even in America, europe, canada , everywhwre in those called big rich countries has badest villages with bad life but they dont show how they survive , but shame on you how they come to expose bad life yet we have good place , developed country and more atractions , #Rwandasecuritycountry, #Kigalibestcleancityinafrica
Quite some achievement ...especially taken into consideration that all this was done under an African government on their homeground...
Indeed amazing 👏 👏👏👏
i thought these guys are showing positivity and progression, i don't know why u want them to show only the finished products we are already seeing on many platforms
It's quite a nasty title for this report!
@I Post Cringe I keep seeing your comment everywhere, I don't know if your brain has a problem. Seriously you need help if that's what you wish to happen. Go to church!
What I see, it's a government that is helping, giving away houses to these poor people! I have never gotten anything like that from my government or anybody
@I Post Cringe you don't know what you're talking about! If you knew what happened in 1994 you wouldn't say something like that!
Go Rwanda!
Africa's 2nd easiest country for business ranking 38th in the world, container business is a good startup.
elaborated
Rwanda is trying to copy just like Singapore does in the first 30 years. If the momentum is kept going for the next 30 years, it will become the jewel of Africa.
If there no a piece of land that is not occupied in Rwanda, a country that is experiencing in addition overpopular, where it is going to put thousands of refugees that it has agreed to receive from UK ?
Good governance and leadership intervention requires the support of all by way of sacrifice and appropriate compromise. That is what i see happening here. Cheers to more Kigali-like places in Africa!
They need access to access to national healthcare too, it pains me to see to granpa's eyes.
what does he say @ 0:58... "and which is today a favourite among ??".. among whom? or what?
He’s just talking gibberish! I’d suggest to simply ignore that part.
Its Simple Just Build High Rise Apartments
Love the vision! Rwanda keeps forging forward
How I wish south african government will take a leaf from ruwanda by putting it's citizens first
SA is still a young country and also very big but I think countries like eswatini or Lesotho they should be at this level for their size
I think they should appreciate, from a shack to a nice apartment, wat more do they want.
People and communities should come together and plan something rather than look around wait for government to give money for clothes on top of the free house. Innovation and community action will be key.
@@dianayansen2542 you speak from a western perspective. There’s little industry in rwanda or africa as a whole. It’s not like you can walk to a grocery store and ask for a job as if you’re in the US.
Theese reporters are so freaking negative
Didnt he just accept refugees from the U.K.?
African countries aren't overpopulated. The only problem is that they aren't urbanized correctly. City plans allow for unchecked urban sprawl instead of high density multi-story development with a small land footprint.
I bet the reporter is going to drink cocktails at that fancy restaurant that guy is interning in after he puts that microphone down. Funny how these journalists never show the more modernized places of African countries.
This coverage shows all you need to understand why the world has a negative view of Africa. In the continent’s most peaceful country, most caring government, most broad based economic participation, least corrupt etc this French station couldn’t find positive image or news. The “good” comments were either interlaced with negative images or followed by “terrible government” comments. #france24issoracist
Kigali is also one of the cleanest cities in the world and has low crime yet it's hard to tell from this segment. The government is trying to do well by its people as you see the representatives checking in on people that have had to change residences.
Colonizers shouldn't have put some Rwanda lands on neibouring countries like they did in almost every African countries anyway
I'm so glad to see that I'm not the only one telling the truth about issues in Rwanda. When foreigners speak out people are angry. When Rwandans speak up people are angry. When I posted positive content on Rwanda nobody watched LOL some of your people only come to the internet to be negative. Nothing is perfect in any country. Not even Rwanda. Be open about issues so they can be solved.
These reporters from France should be the last set of people that you want to listen to about any country in Africa and especially Rwanda based on the role that France played in the atrocities that happened in that country, France is still taking billion of dollars in resources out of Africa, even Haiti was still paying France money which ended in 2015, reason for that is because they fought against slavery and oppression that was imposed on them by France and these French journalist knows that this is what happened when countries are developing, it happens in the western world and they called it " imminent domain" I am sure it happen in France also, but all these people want to see is an undeveloped Africa that they can show the world how undeveloped Africa is and people like you buy into these thing all the time, I am happy that President Kagame is a visionary leader and people like you and France 24 will never cause him to change his plan to please you all.
The reporter said Rwanda is a State?! I thought it was a Country?!
Yes its an AFRICAN STATE .AFRICAN COUNTRY
A state is a country -- or more accurately a nation or a territory under one government.
This is good progress but for especially the old population it's more than just giving a decent home, provide income projects too otherwise conflicts will rise👏👏👏🇷🇼🇷🇼🇷🇼
No need for Kagame to repress people.always consider public opinion
The reporter says Rwanda is a Central African country 😮, but i always knew it to be in East Africa someone please correct me if iam wrong 😅
You’re not. It’s part of the Nile Basin in East Africa. Only a small part of Rwanda extends to the Congo basin of central Africa.
This looks like Jamaica 🇯🇲
More of the story:
1- Rwanda is a very hilly nation, with a heavy rains, that means it's very hard to build houses.
2- Belgium and Germany colonized Rwanda but did not develop it infrastructure wise, they never left anything, Rwanda has been under conflicts and poverty since independence.
3- After genocide, new government put in place a vision 2050, to make sure by then Rwanda would be a developed nation.
4- Housing actually Rwanda's worst issue right now. Rwanda builds less than 10% of what it needs every year.
5- Government started by building free new houses for poor people moving them from high risk zones.
6- But after reviews, It was decided that people living in safe places in informal homes, the government would set up better homes with more units and give the families units for compensation and other units house those from high risk zones, this means one would not be moved from his home place if it is safe.
7- Rwanda as a low income country is really punching above its weight.
How about the refugees from UK 🇬🇧 🤔
Thank you!! That’s what I was saying!!
Not everything in Kigali is as dark and complicated as your report just shows here. It depends on what you want to show. Next time be professional & impartial and show both sides the story . In every country there is the good & the bad. I only saw the bad & complicated in this report.
what else do you want them to show you? The miss Rwanda or women's volleyball scandal?
@@_trust9994 How clean and relatively organized it is. The improvements made to the standard of living for many of its people.
What Over population? Two big skyscrapers can house all those people
No such thing as overpopulation
The worst problem right now is underpopulated in developed nations
They need staff manpower from developing nations like rwanda
Exactly. That's why Americans are about to ban abortion and people don't get it.
Rwanda actually recognizes the value of people who want to work. This is why they are offering asylum to economic migrants who get stopped in Libya or who make it to the UK.
@@rulisa1131 All states, or just a few ones.
@@rulisa1131 sadly, there's more to it than that. Like sick things 😔
Rwanda has the second highest population density level in Africa, and 70 percent of the people depends on agriculture.
Rwandan's dream it's French nightmare
Leave Rwanda alone. Europe should mind their business. If it's not Ghana, it is South Africa, or Uganda etc. Just leave Africa alone and mind your business. Europe only talks about country they cannot access.
If I am Elected To Lead My People , I WiLL start With A Culture Of Cleanliness And Orderliness with A Strong Force Of Volunteerism, a Culture Of Right Conduct On My First 💯 Days To Be FoLLowed .
I hope that europeans refocus their attention on their own social problems. As with most of the other western nations, infertility and dwindling population should be your major concern. Because it does not bode well for you at this current pace. If you spend as much energy reporting and trying to resolve your issues, you won't have time to worry about what is or is not happening to Africans.
Step 1: Stop allowing the third world into Western countries in mass.
Come out of Colonial Victim Mentality.
@@simpmaster7995 would you just come out and stay out of Africa's business.
@@simpmaster7995 african(rwandan) dude here you are absolutely right, it happened, it's over... let's move on
As they didn’t had enough problems. Britain is sending its refugees/asylum seekers to Rwanda as the U.K. is full! How incredibly inhuman and cruel.
Rwanda accepted to take the refugees for some money.
The uk us also a small island we have helped a lot of refugees at the moment we have the Ukraine crisis we are helping at the moment we can not psychically take in any other people coming in by boats that keep happening daily we don't have the house the hospital's schools or doctor's for so many people they have to go somewhere else we also have 247:00 homeless people in the uk lining in bedside ie one room for a family as well as food banks being used as people can't afford to eat
Give me a break 😏 i’ll bet you guys won’t try that in China
Try what?
@@marilenaganea6578 S talking the country for being impoverished and overpopulated.
@@simeonsimon6440 why would the truth bother anyone?
ironic, rwanda of all countries having over population
Better then most african city
I had to laugh at the image being show. Come on France 24 English people are not dumb anymore to believe all of Rwanda look like that. Thanks to travelling UA-camrs we the people of the west knows better.
Why is Rwanda then taking refugees from the UK?
Because UK will also give them money to build new apartments for both migrants and locals.
Have ever ask the same question when Rwanda take the migrants from Libya? Rwanda take those refugees coz the white don't want them
Have ever ask the same question when Rwanda take the migrants from Libya? Rwanda take those refugees coz the white don't want them
Its clear ,they want money which i call greed,instead of thinking about bringing back all its people who ran away during genocide and those who still run to date because kagame to be pardoned ,they want to bring those of u.k,so many rwandese are in uganda,kenya,zambia,and so on.
And most them are claiming to be kongolese when they are not
The issues we face have nothing to do with over population,,,, New thinking is now required because human population has never been at this scale...... Old methods that have served us up till now are no longer adequate thus the need for increasing levels of control and pressure to maintain outdated strategies that were never designed for such a world. We have breed ourselves into a corner that's financially required to continue the perpetual motion of debt creation and labour yet economically and environmentally failing....
How come the reporter speaks like an East African 🤔 🙄 😄
If something is unsustainable it will stop. Too many people, too little land. China also had a huge population eking out a living on small farm plots. Time to try something new I guess.
It's marketing
They're the children of EAST AFRICA if Rwanda population grow there welcome to relocate to other neighbouring states....
😂 Literally what I was thinking. Our countries are big enough for them lol
@@mwanikimwaniki6801 exactly population ya Rwanda is no big deal....wakiwa wengi wacha wa relocate among there East africans comrades....
@@bikokamau1511 True. We have some smart Rwandans here in Kenya who integrate and get educated. We wouldn't mind more
@@mwanikimwaniki6801 kabisa bruh..
Except Congo. Stay out, please.
The world (especially the so called developed nations) will judge you ,but U do what u need to do Rwanda.All the best.The world would have been a much better place if the Europeans and USA really could mind their own business.
Millions of Africans are migrating to Europe, so Africans don't mind their own business either.
@@grahamt5924 know the difference brother
Another Victim.
Rwanda is impressive in Zimbabwe this is not happening anytime soon 🥲🥲
Leadership is not a Shona thing.
@@bp6475 😭😭
@@bp6475 😭😭 imagine in the past the Shona was the most developed ethnic group in Southern Africa but know we are not that great
@@icetrip2417Now it's all about the cadres. Zimbabwe now needs an electoral system similar to the one used in the US or UK. Where minority voices can be represented. Majority rule is mob rule and Zimbabwe has found out the hard way.
@@bp6475 😭😭😭true l hope we can achieve that by 2030, me myself l left Zimbabwe a year ago lm stayin in Nothern Ireland l hope to raise money to reinvest in my country 5years from now
How does all this relate to Priti Patel's offshoring of refugees seeking asylum in the UK?
Well this title was tone deaf to say the least. Appalling from F24
We are use to these propaganda. Africans will soon overcome videos like this. Show the good parts too
With all this over population issues Rwanda is planning to take thousands of migrants from the uk
Wooow this is so annoying why would this media house go in the ghetto to speak for entire nation. There beautiful place and development in Kigali. My house was. Moved as well and awas given somewhere else to build, so any country developing these stuff happen so the country would improve.
Mind your confusion and leave Africa alone.
The story and the headlines are 2 different things they hv a good housing plans for the poor.
that is what ENVY looks like 💅🏾
they want a negative story but cant find one.. 😁😆its also why WESTERN PRESS use 📺1990's video when talking about any African countries.
because they want 🇷🇼 Rwanda and all Africa countries to be time-locked in 80's and 90's.
or they hate 2010-2020👟👖👚 fashion choices and people staring into📱 📴 mobile phones; because the videos are ALWAYS OLD
Can only expect negative reviews of progress from the enemy. France still can't get over rejection huh 🤔
There is no such thing as overpopulation. Every human comes with needs that has to be satisfied and a potential economic opportunity with each birth. There is bad policies and money hoarding
Money of Congolaise blood
Nigeria is the only country in Africa that is over populated, And france your one to talk about overpopulation your the around the size as Kenya with almost double the population and germany and u.k. are smaller than Kenya with more the double the population, so talk about your self and fellow people first. And why do you only like the show off the poor areas and when it is in white countries like your own you never show the poor areas.