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Rwanda Expels French Ambassador

By Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
Published November 26, 2006 at 10:58 AM PST
This story was published more than 18 years ago.

Rwanda broke diplomatic relations with Paris this week and expelled the French ambassador. The actions come after a French judge implicated Rwanda's president in the fatal crash of the plane carrying his predecessor. This event is widely seen as having signaled the start of the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

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Ofeibea Quist-Arcton
Ofeibea Quist-Arcton is an award-winning broadcaster from Ghana and is NPR's Africa Correspondent. She describes herself as a "jobbing journalist"โ€”who's often on the hoof, reporting from somewhere.

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