Rwanda ends diplomatic ties with France
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Rwanda severed diplomatic ties with France on Friday in response to a French judge's decision to issue international arrest warrants for nine ranking Rwandans suspected of plotting the 1994 killing of the African nation's president.
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Rwanda appealed on Wednesday for the U.N. Security Council to abolish a provision requiring notification of all arms exports to the African nation, saying it impeded its ability to equip peacekeepers.
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Rwanda dismisses a French judge's claims implicating the Rwandan president in the 1994 killing of his predecessor.
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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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The Yanks are leaving &#151; and many French didn't even realize they were here. The last U.S. military contingent in France said adieu to the country on Friday with a fittingly low-key ceremony. With European forces taking over peacekeeping in Bosnia, the Americans are being redeployed elsewhere, thus ending a chapter of unsung cooperation between Paris and Washington.
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PARIS, Nov 23 (IPS) - An international arrest warrant against nine close  aides of Rwanda's Tutsi president Paul KagamÃ© on charge of  participating in the assassination of former Hutu leader Juvenal  Habyarimana in April 1994 has led to a new diplomatic war over  Rwanda.
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A key witness in the murder of ex-Rwandan president Juvenal Habyarimana says he will no longer co-operate with a French inquiry.
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Syria said on Wednesday it was  suspending diplomatic cooperation with France on ending the  political crisis in Lebanon, after similar action by Paris.
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Malawi, which once had strong diplomatic ties with Libya, has told the north African nation to close its mission in Lilongwe as it was no longer necessary, media reports said Sunday.
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An Africa-France summit seen as President Jacques Chirac's goodbye to Africa is drawing to a close after a shaky agreement was signed to prevent violence in Darfur from spreading.
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The French Government has suspended talks with feuding parties from French Polynesia after the region's president walked out of the negotiations because opposition supporters are still occupying public ...
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After a week that saw strained ties between Rwanda and France snap over an indictment call on President Paul Kagame over alleged complicity in the death of his predecessor, local media rallied in support of the government and poured scorn on Paris.
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Sudanese President Omar Al-Beshir. An Africa-France summit seen as President Jacques Chirac's goodbye to Africa is drawing to a close after a shaky agreement was signed to prevent violence in Darfur from ...Comment
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The Democratic Republic of Congo has  pulled all of its diplomats out of neighboring Burundi  following the slaughter of Congolese Tutsi refugees there last  week, its foreign minister said on Friday.
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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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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 said on Friday it was ready to hold talks with Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph Kabila to defuse growing tensions over Rwandan rebels based in eastern Congo.