By Steve Doughty PUBLISHED: 20:39 EST, 25 November 2012 | UPDATED: 03:03 EST, 26 November 2012 British aid to Rwanda is ‘funding a dictator’ and worsening the misery of his victims, a former senior aide to the African state’s president claimed last night. The £270million of aid earmarked for the  country over the next three years is ‘sustaining a bad regime’, said David Himbara, who was private secretary to President Paul Kagame until two years ago. Kagame’s regime is alleged to be funding and arming a bloody rebellion in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo, in a conflict  marked by the use of child soldiers and widespread rape and murder.
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President Paul Kagame's former private secretary said £270million of aid earmarked for Rwanda is 'sustaining a bad regime'
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Kagame's regime is alleged to be funding and arming a bloody rebellion in the neighbouring Democratic Republic of the Congo
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