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Sunday, 03 December 2006
Rwanda orders Radio France International to halt broadcasts
Following a cabinet decision to stop all activities of French state institutions, Rwanda has ordered Radio France International off the air, in an escalating row over events leading to the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
 
Thousands of people in Rwanda have been holding anti-French protests in the capital, Kigali, and on Friday, Rwanda cut its diplomatic ties with France after a French judge implicated President Paul Kagame in the assassination of his predecessor, an act, which caused a mass slaughter that claimed 800,000 lives within 100 days.

The BBC, Voice of America and Germany's Deutsche Welle are the only international FM radio stations now allowed to broadcast in Rwanda.

The French ambassador left Kigali on Saturday, and all other French agencies had until late Monday to close down and get their staff out and Rwanda has called back its ambassador to Paris.

The French foreign ministry declared in a brief statement: "We regret this decision. We are making all necessary arrangements."


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