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Aid worker, government official killed

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    WFP Executive Director Catherine Bertini has expressed outrage over the killing on Saturday of a UN volunteer working for the agency in Rwanda. Samuel Sargbah, a Liberian national, was shot dead by an unknown attacker while sitting in his car in the Rwandan capital Kigali. “I am deeply shocked and saddened by the senseless murder of yet another humanitarian worker,” Bertini said in a press release. She urged the Rwandan authorities to conduct a thorough investigation. In a separate incident, Aciel Kabera, an adviser to the Office of the President, was shot dead in front of his house at Kicyiru on Sunday evening, according to IRIN sources in Rwanda. A former prefet of Kibuye, Kabera was a genocide survivor and an influential figure in the Rwandan government, they added.

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