Rwanda's President Paul Kagame attends the extraordinary summit of the International Conference on the Great Lakes Region (ICGLR) head of states emergency summit in Uganda's capital Kampala September 5, 2013. REUTERS/James Akena
JOHANNESBURG/KIGALI (Reuters) - The United States says it is deeply worried about threats made by Rwandan President Paul Kagame against political opponents after one of his exiled critics was found murdered in a hotel room in South Africa.
The rebuke by Rwanda's biggest national donor comes as the tiny state - which punches well above its weight in Africa's turbulent politics - is winning Western plaudits by contributing peacekeepers to yet another conflict zone on the continent, Central African Republic.
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