Kagame receives UNAMID entourage

URUGWIRO VILLAGE - President Paul Kagame, yesterday at Urugwiro Village, hosted a visiting team of United Nations Mission in Darfur (UNAMID) led by Professor Ibrahim Gambari, the Joint Special Representative of the African Union – UN Peace keeping mission. The UNAMID team which also comprised the UNAMID Force Commander Lt. Gen Patrick Nyamvumba, has been in the country on a one-day retreat which brought together special envoys of the UN Security Council and the European Union, to discuss efforts to return peace in the troubled Darfur Region of the Sudan. Addressing the press shortly after holding talks with President Kagame, Prof. Gambari said that the courtesy call was aimed at delivering the outcomes of the retreat and a message of thanks for Rwanda’s contribution to the peacekeeping mission in Darfur. “I am happy to be here and brief the President on the outcomes of the first ever retreat of special envoys,” Prof. Gambari said.