Rwanda Signs officially for RCMRD membership

According to the recent ministerial cabinet meeting of 15 december 2010 Rwanda has signed to be member of RCMRD (Regional Center for Mapping of Ressources for Development ) an organisation putting together regional mapping agencies from countries in east and centre region of Africa this will further cooperation and integration among other projects to be envisaged to be spearhead is AFREF which is an initiative to set up a common African geodetic reference frame for all Africa countries based on international ITRF using WGS 84 

this move will also see more collaboration on regional climate change issues where reasearch is coordinated on a large scale instead of every and each country conducting on its own research agenda