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RDF for Training in Tanzania

The New Times (Kigali)
NEWS
September 11, 2006
Posted to the web September 11, 2006

By Edwin Musoni
Kigali
Senior Rwandan military officers will start attending high-level military
courses in Tanzania effective next year. This was announced on Thursday by the
Chief of Training, Operation and Plans in RDF, Brigadier General Richard
Rutatina,shortly after a 45-member delegation of military trainees from
Tanzania's Monduli Commanding Staff College in Arusha, met President Paul
Kagame at Village Urugwiro.
The team, which was comprised of both senior Tanzanian soldiers and others from
other Sub Sahara African countries, was led by Tanzanian-born Brigadier General
F.N Ulomi.
"It has been agreed that our officers will start to go for training at Monduli
beginning withy next year," Rutatina told journalists.
Said Gen. Ulomi: "Tanzania is a partner in the reconstruction of Rwanda, and we
need to strengthen this partnership."
Rwandan Military Spokesman Maj. Jill Rutaremara yesterday praised the offer.
"Monduli (Commanding Staff College) is a highly-recognized military school, and
we welcome the gesture.
Rutaremara said the college is at the same level with other academies in
several African countries where RDF officers have undergone military training,
notably in Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa and Zambia. He could however not
say whether the Tanzanian slots would be paid for. He however said that RDF
pays for some of the trainings to its officers and men outside the country.
The college does not only offer military courses but a wide-range of political
and socio-economic lessons, he said.
During its week-long visit, the delegation met several government and military
officials, before its departure its departure on Saturday.


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