{{The UK government has suspended aid to Rwanda worth \u00a316m ($25m) saying in a statement that it was delaying in budget support due July 2012 while considering whether aid conditions had been met.}}<\/p>\n
Total UK aid to Rwanda in the year 2012-13 is projected to be about $118m.<\/p>\n
Rwanda’s Foreign Affairs Minister Louise Mushikiwabo said that UK’s decision to terminate aid was “one sided”.<\/p>\n
“More importantly I think it’s a wake-up call for Rwanda and other aid recipient countries to actually start fending for ourselves and figure out a way to sustain our development without being subjected to bullying and pressure from donors,”<\/p>\n
This Follows simillar actions against Rwanda by the Netherlands that have also withheld aid to Rwanda over alleged backing of rebels in Democratic Republic of Congo.<\/p>\n
Mushikiwabo said (Friday) that she regreted the “hasty decisions based on flimsy evidence” made by donor partners on Rwandan budget support.<\/p>\n
The brief UK announcement emerged after the Dutch foreign ministry confirmed it would no longer be making payments worth $6.15m (\u00a33.9m) to Rwanda’s aid budget until it had received reassurances from Rwanda government.<\/p>\n
Mushikiwabo said any decision to suspend aid based on the UN report was “taken on evidence that does not exist”.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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