Five Rwandan refugees from Zambia are currently in Rwanda where they are touring various sites in the country; their visit is part of a campaign initiated by the government aimed at encouraging them to return to their home country.
Similar visits have been ongoing whereby a few refugees are invited to tour the country and later left to return to their places of asylum in order to persuade their Rwandan friends to return home.
Addressing the team, General Marcel Gatsinzi the minister of disaster management and refugee affairs, noted that the visits are a major milestone towards facilitating free repatriation of Rwandan refugees, since those invited go back to explain to their colleagues about the country’s progress.
Gatsinzi has on frequent occasions advised refugees to avoid being misled by enemies of Rwandan known to spread negative reports about the country’s leadership.
The team led by Geraldine Mukakabego a lecturer at Gavendish National University of Zambia, is scheduled to tour the national museum, various genocide memorial sites, the National University of Rwanda and some industries.
“We intend to see some of the opportunities in Rwanda and find mechanisms on how to exploit them, anyway I’m impressed with the country’s development,” he remarked.
Zambia still hosts a big number of Rwandan refugees and the government through the ministry of national disaster and refugee affairs has been conducting awareness to encourage them to return to Rwanda, this follows the recent approval of a UN cessation clause banning Rwandan refugees by mid 2013.
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