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New government to be announced next week

    NAIROBI

    There is “technically” no government in Rwanda since the resignation of Prime-Minister Pierre-Celestin Rwigema, a senior Rwandan official said on Thursday. “Members of the government are working on a caretaker basis until the new government is announced sometime next week,” Patrick Mazimhaka, minister in the President’s office, told IRIN. Under the 1993 Arusha agreement on Rwanda, which remains in force, the post of prime-minister is to be occupied by a member of the Mouvement democratique republicaine (MDR). Rwigema resigned on Monday, saying there was “no conducive atmosphere” for him to work as a result of various summonses by the national assembly.

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