The Commonwealth Summit in Port-of-Spain, on Trinidad, is over a couple of days now and I just noticed one of the major resolutions was to accept Rwanda into the group. HUH?
I always thought that the Commonwealth was basically a confederation of nations made up of former colonies and other parts of the faded Empire. Now I learn that countries can join it like the EU, the G-whatever, and NATO? Rwanda was "owned" by Germany and then by Belgium. But several years ago and they became Anglophiles -- they even made cricket the national sport!
Rwanda is the second country with no ties to Britain to join the Commonwealth, which is presided over by the Queen. Mozambique is the other one.
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