Rwanda: Tanzania President Kikwete "Married to Habyarimana Cousin"

New details obtained by News of Rwanda may give insight into why Tanzania's President Jakaya Kikwete came out as the sole global leader sympathetic to Rwandan FDLR rebels based in DR Congo jungles since 1994.

According to secret US State Department cables published by whistle-blowing site Wikileaks, President Jakaya Kikwete's wife fondly known in Tanzania as "Mama Salma Kikwete" is a cousin of former Rwanda leader Juvenal Habyarimana. The shocking details are contained in a cable sent to Washington on Thursday May 5th, 2005, by Shabyna Stillman, a senior diplomat at the US embassy in Dar es Salaam.

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