Rwanda: Paul Kagame reelected to head RPF party
By AFP Reporter
December 13, 2009
Kigali (AFP): Rwandan President Paul Kagame has been reelected with a crushing majority to head the Rwandan Patriotic Front party that has been in power since 1994.
His only rival in Saturday's election, Abdul Kharim Harelimana, took just two percent of the votes in a meeting of 3,000 party members in the capital, Kigali.
The tiny African country is scarred by a 1994 genocide in which around 800,000 people were killed, mainly minority Tutsis.
Kagame said Rwanda was making strides.
"It is now that we Rwandans have the value we deserve -- we design our own solutions that are seen and appreciated by everyone," he told the meeting.
"You go to China, Europe, the US, Australia -- Rwanda is known and known today for its good acts," he said, adding this was due to the hard work of his party and government colleagues.
Rwanda will hold a presidential election in August next year, only its second since the genocide, giving Kagame a chance for another seven-year term.
Kagame, a Tutsi, was elected in 2003 in the first post-genocide election.
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