“What the French authorities tell us is that this is a magistrate who is independent, but there is more to it than just this indictment,”
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Louise Mushikiwabo
Louise Mushikiwabo is a Rwandan politician and diplomat who is the fourth and current Secretary-General of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie (OIF). She previously served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation from 2009 to 2018. She also served as Government Spokesperson. She had previously been Minister of Information (2008–2009).
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politics · Secretary-General of Organisation internationale de la Francophonie · politician · minister · also Louise Mushikiwabo, H.E. Louise Mushikiwabo, Mushikiwabo
Born 22 May 1961 · Q514051
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2026· 2 entries
The Phnom Penh Post: Louise Mushikiwabo has confirmed plans to visit displacement sites along the Cambodian-Thai border
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2024· 1 entry
The Africa Report: Louise Mushikiwabo: ‘French losing ground in international bodies’
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2022· 1 entry
Publishers Weekly: Books by Louise Mushikiwabo and Complete Book Reviews
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2018· 1 entry
CNBC Africa: Louise Mushikiwabo
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2017· 1 entry
The Africa Report: Louise Mushikiwabo: ‘Democracy is in crisis’
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2009· 2 entries
Issued a temporary ban on the Kinyarwanda radio station broadcast by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), because she claimed it had aired programmes "giving free scope to genocidaires and negationists of the
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Career landmark: Minister of Foreign Affairs (2009–2018).
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2006· 1 entry
Mushikiwabo wrote a book, Rwanda Means the Universe, which was co-authored by Jack Kramer, an American journalist and ex-marine
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2001· 2 entries
“Rwanda Has Had to Make Extremely Difficult Choices.”
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“she said Choices were made because there was no alternative and because the country had to move on and move forward… We were basically a broken nation.”
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1994· 1 entry
During the Rwandan genocide, and Anne-Marie Kantengwa, who took over Lando's hotel Chez Lando after his death and served in the Parliament of Rwanda from 2003 to 2008
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1988· 1 entry
Remained in the United States, settling in the Washington, D
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1986· 1 entry
Emigrated from Rwanda to the United States, where she began studying for a master's degree in Languages and Interpretation at the University of Delaware, with French as her specialist language
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1984· 1 entry
With a bachelor's degree in English, and then worked briefly as a secondary school teacher
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1961· 1 entry
Born 1961-05-22.
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