Gabriel Gabiro
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/ 25 November 2006

Rwanda breaks ties with France

Rwanda on Friday severed all ties with France as a row over a French judge’s implication of the Rwandan president and top aides in the assassination of the country’s former leader boiled over. President Paul Kagame’s Cabinet ordered the closure of the French embassy and the expulsion of its envoy in Kigali.

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/ 21 November 2006

Rwanda rejects calls to indict president

Rwanda on Tuesday rejected calls by a French judge to indict President Paul Kagame over his alleged involvement in the death of the country’s former leader, which sparked the 1994 genocide. ”The allegations are totally unfounded. The judge is acting on the basis of gossip and rumours,” Justice Minister Tharcisse Karugarama said.

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/ 18 August 2006

Rwanda to scrap death penalty for genocide

Rwanda plans to strike capital punishment for genocide suspects from its statute books to encourage European and North American countries to extradite suspected masterminds of the 1994 genocide, the attorney general said on Friday. Rwanda has demanded that Western nations extradite genocide suspects, but some nations have expressed reservations because of the death penalty.