Rwanda breaks off diplomatic ties with France
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Rwanda broke off diplomatic ties with France on Friday in protest at a French judge's call for President Paul Kagame to stand trial over the killing of a former leader, the event which unleashed the country's genocide.
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The United Nations peace envoy in divided Ivory Coast is resigning. Meanwhile, South African President Thabo Mbeki is extending an intense mediation visit to salvage peacemaking efforts.
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Former rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo pulled out of a power-sharing government on Monday, dealing a major blow to the peace process in a country emerging from civil war.
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Rwandan riot police chased away thousands of protesters gathered outside the French embassy in the capital Kigali on Monday as a deadline expired for French diplomats to leave the tiny central African nation.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame, involved in a row with France over the 1994 genocide in his country, further criticized French involvement in Africa on Monday, blaming some of the continent's woes on Paris.
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France's ambassador to Rwanda left the country after the government severed ties with France in a major row over events that sparked the 1994 genocide, an AFP correspondent said.
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After a green light from the UN, France decided Tuesday to scrap its neutrality and help fend off a rebel advance.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame accused France on Wednesday of actively supporting the 1994 genocide in his country when 800,000 people were slaughtered.
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Rwanda has recalled its ambassador to France and hinted it might break diplomatic relations with Paris in a row over arrest warrants issued by a French judge related to the 1994 genocide.
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A French judge has accused Rwanda President Paul Kagame of orchestrating a 1994 attack that unleashed that country's genocide, saying the ex-rebel leader personally ordered his fighters to down the plane carrying a former leader &#151; an act that sparked the massacre of hundreds of thousands of people.
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Rwanda has rejected calls by a French judge to indict President Paul Kagame over his alleged involvement in the death of the country's former leader that sparked the 1994 genocide.
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Taiwan will break diplomatic ties with the African nation of Malawi, three Taiwanese diplomats said Monday.
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A witness has told a Rwandan commission  French troops raped women fleeing militia gangs during the  African country's 1994 genocide, the latest in a string of  allegations against France from Kigali.
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Rwandan President Paul Kagame accused  France on Wednesday of actively supporting the 1994 genocide in  his country when 800,000 people were slaughtered.
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Rwanda has recalled its ambassador to Paris after a French judge issued international arrest warrants for nine ranking Rwandans suspected of plotting the 1994 killing of the African nation's president, the embassy said Friday.
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The widow of Rwanda's former president Juvenal Habyarimana, whose murder sparked the 1994 genocide, has had her plea for asylum turned down by France because she may have played a part in encouraging the killings, officials said.
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Australian Customs officers have confiscated firearms of bodyguards of visiting Rwandan President Paul Kagame upon his arrival at the northeastern state of Queensland.