Burkina Speaker says Rwandan Parliament should inspire Africa

PARLIAMENT - The Speaker of the Burkina Faso National Assembly, Roch Marc Christian Kaboré, has called on African parliaments to draw a lesson of women emancipation in parliamentary diplomacy from the Rwandan Parliament. Addressing the Lower Chamber of Deputies during the opening of the parliamentary first term of 2009, Kaboré praised the Rwandan parliament for hosting the biggest number of democratically elected women MPs in the world.