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Speakers of the East African Community (EAC) on Monday clashed on the fast tracking of the integration process.
This was during a meeting of regional parliamentary speakers held at Rwanda’s Parliamentary Buildings in Kigali.

Police forces of Rwanda and Burundi have agreed to strengthen bilateral cooperation as a way of eliminating threats of emerging cross-border crimes.

East African Political Federation may not be realised unless countries manage to make difficilt decisions, including giving up some sovereignty, the out-going EAC Deputy Secretary General, Beatrice Kiraso said recently.

The outgoing Speaker of the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA), Abdirahin Abdi, whose mandate ends next month, yesterday paid a courtesy call on President Paul Kagame to bid him farewell, at an event held in Village Urugwiro.

The Gavi Alliance, a global partnership dedicated to improving world health by ensuring access to immunisation in developing nations, Sunday, donated 128,500 doses of the rotavirus vaccine that is administered to children for the prevention of diarrhoea.

Brig. Gen. Yushau Mahmood, the team leader of a 21-member group of students from the National Defence College (NDC), in Nigeria, yesterday said Rwanda put lots of effort in rising above conflict which other countries, including Nigeria, can borrow a leaf to avert internal turmoil.

Prime Minister Dr. Pierre Damien Habumuremyi was recently conferred with an honorary doctorate in Law from California Baptist University.

The government has obtained a grant worth €89m (Rwf 69.2 billion) from the European Union to support agricultural programmes focused on increasing food production nationwide.