Rwanda, Ethiopia police sign cooperation agreement

RWANDA and Ethiopia police, yesterday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate in various policing areas.

Saturday, October 20, 2012
Lt Gen Kale Kayihura of Uganda, (L) receives a flag from Emmanuel Gasana to assume the rotational chairmanship of EAPCCO. Gasana later signed a pact with Ethiopia. The New Times / Courtsey.

RWANDA and Ethiopia police, yesterday, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to cooperate in various policing areas.The cooperation pact was signed by the Inspector General of Police, Emmanuel Gasana, and his Ethiopian counterpart Workeney Gabeyehu, according to a statement from the national police.The event took place on the sidelines of the ongoing 14th Eastern Africa Police Chiefs Cooperation Organisation (EAPCCO) meeting in Kampala, Uganda as it entered its fifth day.According to the pact, the two forces will cooperate mainly in "capacity building of different forms, exchange of police information and best practices, and close collaboration in other areas that have relevance to security.”The agreement cements the already existing partnership between the two forces.Present at the signing was Rwanda’s Minister of Internal Security, Sheikh Musa Fazil Harelimana and Mulegeta Wuletaw, Ethiopia’s State Minister for Federal Affairs.Others present were Rwanda’s High Commissioner to Uganda, Frank Mugambage, the Ambassador of Ethiopia to Uganda – Buia Degfie – and senior police officers from the two countries.