mediation training for women leaders in the great lkakes region opens in dar

Tanzania's Minister for Community Development, Gender and Children Ms Margaret Sitta, opens the two-day Conflict prevention, mediation and peace building training workshop for senior women leaders at the Beachcomber hotel in Dar es salaam today. Some 40-plus delegates from Burundi, Rwanda, DRC, Uganda and Tanzania are taking part in the workshop organised by the International Conference on the Great Lakes Regions in collaboration with the Tanzania government and UNIFEM
Ms Margaret Sitta talks to reporters

The Executive Secretary of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region Ambassador Liberata Mulamula briefs reporters of the training workshop

Minister for Community Development, Gender and Children of DRC, Ms Marie Ange Lukiana field questions from newsmen and women

The Tanzania delegation

The Rwanda delegation

The Burundi delegation

The DRC delegation led by the country's minister for community development, gender and children, Ms Marie Ange Lukiana (fourth left) and the Chair of the great lakes Peace Initiative Ms Janet Laurent Kabila (third right) pose for a group photo after the opening ceremony of the training workshop.

THE mediation training workshop for women leaders in the Great Lakes Region began today, with participants asking for more involvement in all stages of prevention, mediation and peace processes.

They also expressed the hope that member states would consider having more women in decision making stages and participation in the peace building process, giving it priority in order to meet the inherent challenges.

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