Deserting Darfur is not our intention – Kagame

VILLAGE URUGWIRO - President Kagame, during the usual Presidential Press conference at ‘Village Urugwiro yesterday, stressed that withdrawing Rwanda’s peacekeepers from Darfur was not an option given the humanitarian crisis there. Kagame explained that instead of what recent media reports implied, Rwanda’s threatening Darfur pull–out, the government was instead working on equipping the peace force better. “We are working on equipping our troops because I think the mission and the purpose of the mission has great importance in as far as the lives of people who are affected in Darfur are concerned,” he said “we just wouldn’t start by abandoning them.” He added that there was no excuse, saying, “It’s not good to just keep saying ‘if there isn’t this am going away because that would belittle the importance of the mission, I don’t think that is what anybody intends to do,” said the president.