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Uganda blocks online access to Rwanda newspaper, casting shadow over pact to end tensions

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni and his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame in Kigali on April 7, 2014. [Reuters]

Uganda said on Friday it had blocked online access to Rwanda’s main state-owned newspaper on national security grounds, two days after the countries signed a pact to end tensions that closed their busiest border crossing for six months.

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