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Rwanda’s leader Paul Kagame has called for serious reflection on the part and responsibility of African governments, reserved sector and media practitioners in addressing the continent’s environmental challenges.

While addressing participants at the Intercontinental Conference for East and central African Journalists at Kigali Serena lodge, the His excellence Paul Kagame emphasized that capacity building in all three sectors was serious for fore preparation and useful environmental management.

The conference, whose theme was Sharing Environmental Information to Tackle Key Regional Challenges of Africa, brought together press from around Africa, policy makers and development partners working in the environment departments.

Citing the lately released report of the World’s Environment Day on the environment by the IPCC, with its alarming predictions for the expected decline of food security and destruction of ecosystems rooted to climate change, Kagame asserted that while industrialized countries were mostly attributed to the declining the environmental conditions, of which repercussions are greatly felt in Africa, Africa also had a part in the continuing deterioration of our globe.

He added that we have to face our own failings in terms of weak policies and practices that also contribute to the dreadful conditions of our environment.

In the same way that Africa has struggled and prevailed against other harms, with the right procedures, the continent had the capability to reverse degradation to the environment and become a credible contributor to the inclusive exertion, said Kagame.

Our continent has fought and won major battles like those against bad governance and authoritarian indulgence. We must hence take the environmental challenge in the same tramp, for it is part and parcel of socio financial development.

He also urged the African Union and regional financial blocs to take on the challenge.

He told the journalists that they are agents of change, aphorism that they have a central part to play in educating and sensitizing the humanity on environmental protection and serving to change mindsets..

He pointed out journalists as agents of change, saying that they have a vital role in educating and informing the society on environmental protection who should work together with the government and other stakeholders in order to deal with the environmental challenge.

He confirmed that the people of Rwanda will play their part and urged the whole continent to do so more urgently.

The Journalists present in the 3 day conference came from Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, DRC, Uganda, Somalia, Tanzania, Kenya, central Africa, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania, Gabon, Chad, Congo and Brazzaville who are members of Africa interact of Environmental Journalists of Africa.

He also urged the African Union and regional financial blocs to take on the challenge.

He told the journalists that they are agents of change, aphorism that they have a central part to play in educating and sensitizing the humanity on environmental protection and serving to change mindsets..

He pointed out journalists as agents of change, saying that they have a vital role in educating and informing the society on environmental protection who should work together with the government and other stakeholders in order to deal with the environmental challenge.

He confirmed that the people of Rwanda will play their part and urged the whole continent to do so more urgently.

The Journalists present in the 3 day conference came from Rwanda, Burundi, Sudan, DRC, Uganda, Somalia, Tanzania, Kenya, central Africa, Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Mauritania, Gabon, Chad, Congo and Brazzaville who are members of Africa interact of Environmental Journalists of Africa.

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By Grace Nakawooya