Stephen Crabb, the Conservative MP, is leading Project Umubano as it enters its fourth year in Rwanda
The French will not be happy. A group of Conservatives will tomorrow start distributing 2,000 English language dictionaries to teachers in the former Francophone colony of Rwanda.
The dictionaries, provided by Penguin, are another sign of how the former Belgian colony is turning its back on the Francophone world in favour of greater ties with English speaking countries. Rwanda joined the Commonwealth in 2009.
Paul Kagame, the Rwandan president, blames France for aiding and abetting the Hutu genocide of 1994 in which 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred. Tutsi rebels defeated the Hutu regime and the killing came to an end in July 1994.
The dictionaries, whose arrival shows how Rwanda has been transformed under Kagame, will be distributed by Conservative volunteers who will tomorrow embark on their fourth mission to the country. It will last until 7 August.
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