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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Rajeev Syal Home affairs editor

‘Kagame’s agents are looking for me’: dissidents in UK say Rwanda is not safe

Noble Marara
‘I am no longer safe here,’ says Paul Kagame’s former bodyguard Noble Marara. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

Rwandan dissidents living in the UK who have received police warnings about assassination attempts from the African country’s agents have spoken of their shock and dismay at Rishi Sunak’s insistence that it is a safe country.

The president, Paul Kagame’s former bodyguard and a key political opponent are among at least eight people who have been told by special branch or the security services that there are “imminent threats” to their lives from the government in Kigali.

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