Rwanda pledges support to Somali Government

URUGWIRO VILLAGE - Rwandan ministers are set to review with their Somali counterparts different areas of cooperation in an effort to help the latter’s transitional government, the two countries’ Presidents decided yesterday. The new President of the Transitional Federal Government of the Somali Republic, Sheikh Ahmed Sharif, is in the country on a two-day state visit. As part of his visit, the Somali leader yesterday held talks with President Paul Kagame yesterday at Urugwiro Village, a meeting that was attended by several ministers from both countries. Rwanda’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Rosemary Museminali who also attended the meeting, said that areas of cooperation between the two countries are likely to include training the Somali army, advising on setting up the country’s different governance institutions and their reconciliation process.