Rwanda has joined the rest of Commonwealth community to celebrate the 2024 Commonwealth Day, which also marked the last day with Rwanda as the chair of the Commonwealth of Nations. The celebrations in Rwanda focused on environmental resilience and marine sustainability, and was part of the country’s engagement in commemorating the day which brings together more than 2.5billion people in the Commonwealth. Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame was elected the Commonwealth Chair-in-Office in June 2022, and has been serving the community for the last two-year-term which ended today
In Rwanda, the celebrations were held under the theme: One Resilient Common Future, in which the urgent need to protect the ecosystem and especially wetlands was passed on to students at Kigali Parents School, who also through songs and poems demonstrated their knowledge on biodiversity and need to take action now.
