 | English is spoken as a first language by the majority populations of several sovereign states, including the United Kingdom and the United States. It is an official language of almost 60 sovereign states.
With 360 million native speakers, it is the third-most-common native language in the world. As a second language it is spoken by over 430 million. It is an official language of the European Union, many Commonwealth countries and the United Nations. Because of American influence, English is the lingua franca of international air travel and the Internet. English is the most widely understood language in the world.
Rwanda has a close relationship to the USA and difficult relationship with France. Rwanda is slowly evolving away from Francophone and toward Anglophone.
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