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RWANDA-UGANDA: Kampala relocates former Rwandan minister
NAIROBI, 6 June 2003 (IRIN) - Uganda has relocated a former Rwandan defence minister to Geneva, Switzerland, the government-owned newspaper, The New Vision, reported on Friday.
Former Defence Minister Emmanuel Habyarimana and two other Rwandan military officers, Col Balthazar Ndengeyinka and Lt Alphonse Ndayambaje, crossed into Uganda on 30 March in search of asylum, the Kampala newspaper reported. The trio left for Geneva on Wednesday.
"They have been staying here and they have left together as a group," The New Vision quoted army spokesman Maj Shaban Bantariza, as saying.
There have been defections and counter defections in Rwanda and Uganda since 1990s when the two countries backed different groups in a conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).
On 9 May, presidents Paul Kagame of Rwanda and Yoweri Museveni of Uganda agreed during a summit in London to investigate and resolve all outstanding complaints against each other. They pledged to resolve all outstanding issues that would allow their countries to regain their former fraternal ties.
Theme(s): (IRIN) Conflict
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