Rwandan polls open in election expected to hand Kagame third term

Record ID: 905291

  • Title: Rwandan polls open in election expected to hand Kagame third term
  • Date: 4th August 2017
  • Summary: KIGALI, RWANDA (AUGUST 4, 2017) (REUTERS) VARIOUS OF PEOPLE WAITING FOR POLLS TO OPEN VARIOUS WOMEN CASTING THEIR VOTES (SOUNDBITE) (English) VOTER, CLAUDE NIYONGABO, SAYING: "I cannot say who is going to win but I think everybody will be … it depends how people they are comfortable about the campaigns, what each candidate said and it's the job of the electoral commission to publish who will win the election." BALLOT PAPERS VARIOUS OF VOTERS CASTING THEIR VOTES VOTERS WAITING OUTSIDE THE POLLING STATION
  • Embargoed: 18th August 2017 08:49
  • Keywords: Rwanda presidential election polling station polls open Paul Kagame Frank Habineza
  • Location: KIGALI, RWANDA
  • City: KIGALI, RWANDA
  • Country: Rwanda
  • Topics: Government/Politics,Elections/Voting
  • Reuters ID: LVA0016SQPTMV
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Rwandan voters queued in long lines on Friday (August 4) to cast their ballots in a presidential election that incumbent President Paul Kagame is tipped to win by a landslide after 17 years in power.
    Kagame has won international plaudits for presiding over a peaceful and rapid economic recovery in the tiny central African nation since the 1994 genocide, when an estimated 800,000 people Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed.
    But he has also faced mounting censure for what critics and rights groups say are widespread human rights abuses, a muzzling of independent media and suppression of political opposition.
    Kagame's main opponent, Frank Habineza, voted early on Friday at Kimoronko, a polling station in Kigali.
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