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Former speaker leaves for US

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    Former Rwandan parliamentary speaker Joseph Sebarenzi, who has been hiding in Uganda since he fled Rwanda last month, has reportedly gone to the US. The Rwandan authorities confirmed he went to Europe from Uganda, and then on to the US. “The Americans informed us about the Sebarenzi’s move to the US, which is professional,” defence ministry spokesman Major Emmanuel Ndahiro told IRIN on Wednesday. President Yoweri Museveni told ‘The EastAfrican’ newspaper in an interview on 13 March that Uganda had asked Sebarenzi to leave for a third country, rather than return him to Rwanda.

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