KAMPALA-The German Ambassador to Rwanda, Peter Woeste has left Rwanda under unclear circumstances, a German newspaper Welt has reported.
Ambassador Woeste, according to the newspaper left Kigali after Rwanda intelligence authorities accessed an email he had written to the headquarters in Berlin, criticising the Rwanda government.
The Rwandan Ambassador to Uganda, Maj Gen Frank Mugambage’s phone was off and couldn’t not be reached for a comment.
This is the second time Rwanda government is expelling the German ambassador. In 2008 Rwanda expelled Germany’s envoy and recalled its own following a dispute over the arrest of the former head of protocol in the president’s office, Rose Kabuye.
At that time, Ms Kabuye was detained in Frankfurt in connection with the killing of former President Juvenal Habyarimana that triggered the 1994 genocide.
Habyabarimana’s death allegedly triggered the killing of some 800,000 Rwandan
