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The Rwandan authorities have denied widely shared claims on social media that President Paul Kagame had ordered the deportation of 18 Chinese nationals.
But the claim isn’t true and is more than two years old.
Government spokesperson Yolande Makolo has flagged it as fake on her Twitter account in response to a query by a South African journalist.
And it’s not the first time Ms Makolo has had to correct this claim after a similar assertion was circulating in 2020 prompting her to deny it back then.
The latest report has been slightly modified with a few words changed but carries the same message. END