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Ex-Pm Twagiramungu Confirms Reports Of Secret Tanzania Trip

The ex-PM Faustin Twagiramungu (2nd from right) with RDI Rwanda Rwiza group leaders inside the conference hall in Lyon. News of Rwanda has obtained more photos from the closed-door session

Last week, News of Rwanda revealed exclusively how the exiled former Rwandan Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu was on a secret trip to Tanzania to meet President Jakaya Kikwete as he looks for ways to launched armed rebellion. The politician himself has confirmed the reports.

Twagiramungu told delegates at a closed-door conference held in Lyon, France, on Saturday that he had indeed been to Tanzania from 19-23 January. According to our sources, Twagiramungu left Dodoma on Thursday where he had been meeting President Kikwete at secret locations.

The ex-premier arrived in Lyon on Friday evening ahead of the conference for his political organistion RDI Rwanda Rwiza which had been on schedule weeks before. The 3-hr conference from 3pm (16hrs GMT) took place at Salle Halle in Grains at the address 61 Rue Président Salvador ALLENDE 69200 Vénissieux.

In the conference hall attended by about a dozen delegates, Twagiramungu with pride informed them that he had been to Tanzania on a “very important mission”. Amid lengthy applause from the delegates, Twagiramungu said he had no obligation to reveal the exact motives of his week-long Tanzania trip.

The day Twagiramungu left Tanzania for France is when another Rwandan dissident group RNC was hosted in Dar es Salaam with FDLR rebels by President Kikwete, according to our sources.

Twagiramungu has entered into alliance with the FDLR, a militia group which executed the genocide against Tutsis in Rwanda, and fled to DR Congo in 1994. These meetings meanwhile, come after President Kikwete has publicly called for negotiations betweem Kigali and the militia group, a suggestion that brought Kigali-Dodoma relations to near-collapse.

SOURCE: http://www.newsofrwanda.com/imitwe-ya-politiki/22096/ex-pm-twagiramungu-confirms-reports-of-secret-tanzania-trip/