Regional clerics vow to promote peace

URUGWIRO VILLAGE - A team of 47 inter-religious leaders from various countries in the Great Lakes region yesterday pledged to play their role in peace building, sustainable development as well as foster reconciliation amongst people in regional countries. Under their network, African Council of Religious Leaders, the group made this promise at Urugwiro Village where they had gone to pay a courtesy call on President Paul Kagame. According to the Mufti of Rwanda, Sheikh Saleh Habimana, who is also the head of the network, the leaders visited the country in a bid to stand in solidarity with the Rwandan community as the country prepares for the 16th commemoration of the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.