South African President Jacob Zuma
will meet his Rwandan counterpart, Paul Kagame, to discuss a
diplomatic row following the expulsion of embassy staff who may
be linked to an attempted murder of an opponent of the East
African nation’s government.
No date has been set yet for the meeting, Clayson Monyela,
a spokesman for the Department of International Relations and
Cooperation, said by phone today. “The issue between the two
countries” will be discussed, he said.
South Africa expelled four Rwandan diplomats and one
Burundian official on March 7, three days after an attempt was
made to kill exiled former Rwandan army general Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa in Johannesburg. Rwanda’s former head of intelligence,
Patrick Karegeya, 53, was found dead two months earlier in a
hotel room in Johannesburg’s affluent Sandton area.
Rwanda responded by ejecting six South African diplomats,
with Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo accusing the government
of harboring dissidents responsible for terrorist attacks in
Rwanda. South Africa said on March 15 that investigations linked
the expelled Rwandan diplomats to organized criminal networks
seeking to undermine the nation’s security.
Zuma and Kagame met yesterday at a summit of heads of
states in Angola’s capital, Luanda, and plan to hold direct
talks on the diplomatic disagreement, the state-owned South
African Broadcasting Corp. said on its website.
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