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Kigali, Rwanda

Lopsided election: Rwandan President Paul Kagame won re-election this week with a stunning 93 percent of the vote, a count that observers said was “largely accurate.” The vote reflects the genuinely high popularity of Kagame, who first took power in 1994, after the genocide of 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus. Kagame, a Tutsi, has led the country to stability and relative prosperity since then. But his electoral dominance was also a sign of political repression. Two people who wanted to run against him were arrested before the campaign began; another fled abroad. The three candidates who did oppose Kagame spent most of their campaigns praising his rule.

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