Rwandans vote Monday in an election that will almost certainly extend the long rule of President Paul Kagame.
TELL US: How do you feel about Pres. Biden’s conference? Do you have less or more confidence in his ability to lead?‘We’re his family today’: Hundreds gather at Jacksonville National Cemetery to lay veteran with no known family to restFILE - Rwanda's President Paul Kagame wave as he leaves an election campaign rally on the hills overlooking Kigali, Rwanda, on Aug. 2, 2017.
Rights groups continue to raise alarm over harsh restrictions on human rights, including freedom of association. Amnesty International expressed concerns in a recent statement over “threats, arbitrary detention, prosecution on trumped-up charges, killings and enforced disappearances” targeting the political opposition in Rwanda.
FDU-Inkingi is the former party of the opposition figure Victoire Ingabire, who is blocked from running because of a previous criminal conviction. Earlier this year a Rwandan court refused her plea for the legal rehabilitation that would have allowed her to run for president. Another of the president's critics, Diane Rwigara of the People Salvation Movement, had her candidacy blocked for allegedly failing to show proof of enough support.
Under those circumstances, critics say, it is impossible to oppose Kagame. The charges of authoritarianism were central to opposition to a recently scrapped
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