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Kagame plea for reconstruction

[Rwanda] President Paul Kagame IRIN
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    President Paul Kagame has urged all Rwandans to "lend a hand in the reconstruction of the country despite religion, tribe, race and region", the Rwandan News Agency, RNA, reported.

    Kagame made the remarks on Friday in the capital, Kigali, when he addressed a conference for Muslim leaders from 22 countries in eastern, central and southern Africa. The Muslim leaders met to discuss their roles in the development and promotion of peace and unity in the region.

    "After experiences of discrimination by the former regimes, we now have an opportunity to help in the rebuilding of our nation," Saleh Habimana, the Islamic legal adviser for Rwanda, said.

    The issues discussed included the promotion of peace and unity, poverty, illiteracy and the HIV/AIDS pandemic.

    Rwanda's Muslim Council announced that it would issue five annual scholarships to Rwandans of all religions in an effort to promote education in the country.

    In 1994, Rwanda was devastated by civil war and a subsequent genocide that claimed 937,000 lives, according to government estimates.

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