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Rwanda’s former spy chief Patrick Karegeya killed in South Africa

Pretoria, South Africa: An exiled former Rwandan intelligence chief and critic of President Paul Kagame has been found murdered in a Johannesburg hotel, South African police said on Thursday.

Patrick Karegeya, who once headed military intelligence in his homeland, fled to South Africa along with former Rwandan army chief Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa after allegedly plotting a coup against Kagame.

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