KIGALI - Rwanda’s progress has been recognised as outstanding by the head of the South African based MTN Group, a mobile telecommunications company.

Phutama Nhleko who also doubles as the Chief Executive Officer of the company acknowledged the efforts of rebuilding the country after laying a wreath at Kigali’s main Genocide memorial centre in Gisozi last Friday.

Nhleko who was in the country to celebrate the company’s 10th anniversary and launch of the Black Berry telephone had earlier met with President Paul Kagame.

"This morning when I met the president, I expressed my appreciation upon the outstanding step taken to rebuild Rwanda. His government and the people have given a lot to bring back together a country which had been torn apart by Genocide hardly fifteen years ago,” Nhleko told The Sunday Times at Gisozi.

He observed that a lot of experienced and skilled people had been lost during the mass killings but positive efforts have been made to refill the gap.

"It left behind lasting negative impacts but the positive result is that people are hungrier to unite after the Genocide than ever before,” he noted.

He pointed out that the way people behaved during the genocide was incomprehensible and that looking at the challenges that have been met, it was hard to imagine what took place.

Tim Lowry, who is in charge of the South and Eastern region, condemned perpetrators of the Genocide and said that he was humbled by the experience of what transpired in 1994.

"It is horrible and I hope and pray that it may never happen again,” Lowry said.

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