Visiting Brazzaville, Paul Kagame signs a series of agreements with Denis Sassou-Nguesso

Paul Kagame and Denis Sassou-Nguesso during a previous visit by the Rwandan president to Congo in February 2013 (illustration image).

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Rwandan President Paul Kagame and his Ministers of Foreign Affairs and Finance will wrap up a three-day official visit to Brazzaville on Wednesday.

He concluded with his Congolese counterpart Denis Sassou-Nguesso a series of agreements of a mining, cultural, educational or economic nature, in particular with the concession of arable land for market gardening.

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With our correspondent in Brazzaville,

The two countries have signed two agreements, three protocols, two memoranda of understanding and a concession agreement in the agricultural field.

According to a source familiar with the matter, the Congo must grant Rwanda 12,000 hectares of exploitable land in at least three departments in the south of the country.

On the other hand, the duration of the concession was not specified.

The Congo has 10 to 12 million arable land of which less than 5% is exploited for subsistence agriculture.

According to the joint communiqué read to the press by Jean-Claude Gakosso, Congolese Minister for Foreign Affairs, the two Heads of State considered that the level of relations between their countries could be broader and deeper in view of the agreements signed by the past.

The presidents of the two countries asked their governments to work, without delay, on the development of action plans for the execution of the agreements which have just been concluded.

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• Paul Kagame

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• Congo Brazzaville

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