The MININFRA met with different representatives from states across Africa to discuss on the current urbanization problems and find out sustainable solutions to them.
Different international organisation agents attended the meeting, among which the UN Habitat and many other representatives of the African and Pacific- Caribbean Countries.
The Summit was attended by Rwandan Minister of Infrastructures Prof Rwakabamba and Rwandan Prime Minister Dr Pierre Celestin Habumuremyi whowas the Guest of Honor in the Summit.
On the agenda,experts were to discuss about adequate measures and means to take in order to bring out sustainable solutions fro these problems.
Governor of the Kigali City Mr Fidel Ndayisaba assured the participants that in Kigali these measures will be applied as recently nationwide census has shown the exact statistical numbers of the Kigali inhabitants and elsewhere in Rwanda.
The census has also shown different urbanization problems that need to be handled using the statistical numbers got from the census.
The EU representative Mr Louis Michel said that Kigali authorities have shown efforts to build a clean and habitable city.”
“This is a fruit of undeserved efforts of Rwandan authorities to ensure lasting sustainable development of Rwandans living in both cities and in other remote areas” Michel said.
Rwandan authorities that attended the meeting revealed that other more six cities will be rehabilitated so to reduce the influx of people who annually come to settle in Kigali.
This will hopefully reduce the urbanization problems in Kigali.
PM.Dr Habumuremyi thanked the participants who attended the meeting for their contributions on the finding out of the solutions about challenges Rwandans in particular and Africans in general encounter.
“Rwanda is always on your side to hear from you what is needed to be done to ensure sustainable development of our nations” said PM Habumuremyi Pierre Celestin.
NIYONKURU Martin
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