Dar es Salaam
Tanzania President Jakaya Kikwete has sent his
special assistant, Prof Mark Mwandosya, to Kigali at a time when
diplomatic relations between the two countries are at an all-time low.
Tanzania State House said Prof Mwandosya, who is
the minister of state for Special Duties in the President’s Office,
left the country on Saturday, and will be in Rwanda for a week-long
official visit ‘to learn on how Kigali plans and implements social and
economic services.
Dar and Kigali are at loggerheads over President
Kikwete’s advice last may that Rwanda initiates talks with FDLR rebels
as part of efforts to end the Dr Congo crisis.
Rwanda felt offended by president Kikwete’s advice
and rejected the idea outright, saying that they cannot sit down with
genocidaires (killers). The two presidents -- Kikwete and Paul Kagame --
held talks in Kampala last August over the matter.
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