Last week the government of Rwanda held its 13th National Leadership Retreat (Umwiherero). It is one of the two, arguably most significant gatherings in any given year.
The other is the Annual National Dialogue (Inama y’Igihugu y’Umushyikirano). The retreat brings together Rwanda’s leaders, national and local, political and civic. Some of the political leaders belong to the different, potentially rival political parties that constitute the government, thanks to power and responsibility-sharing arrangements that are embedded in the Constitution. FULL STORY
