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Strategies & Market Trends : Africa and its Issues- Why Have We Ignored Africa?

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To: epicure who started this subject8/25/2003 3:11:11 PM
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Rwanda votes in landmark polls
BBC 2003/08/25 15:06:44 GMT
news.bbc.co.uk

Rwandans have been voting for the first time since the 1994 genocide in which some 800,000 people were killed.

Just before polls closed at 1300GMT, some 80% of voters had cast their ballots, said the head of the national election commission, Chrysologue Karangwa.

The clear favourite is the incumbent, President Paul Kagame, an ethnic Tutsi who led the rebel movement which ended the slaughter of the Tutsi minority and moderate Hutus by Hutu extremists.

The BBC's Ishbel Matheson says if he does win, he will become the first Tutsi group to be elected president.

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