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A grenade attack greets President Kagame’s reelection – and another army officer heads to gaol

Assassination attempts – failed and successful – have tarnished Paul Kagame’s second landslide election victory. Nobody was surprised when, on 9 August, Kagame was reelected to the seven-year presidency with 93.08% of the national vote. His three authorised opponents were Jean-Damascène Ntawukuriryayo of the Parti Social Démocrate and Vice-President of the National Assembly, with 5.15% of the vote; Prosper Higiro, Parti Libéral, Senate Vice-President, 1.37%; and Alvera Mukabaramba,du Progrès et de la Concorde, with 0.4%. All three have operated as part of the ruling coalition, the Forum de Concertation des Formations Politiques....

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Paul Kagame, Jean-Damascène Ntawukuriryayo, Prosper Higiro, Alvera Mukabaramba, Victoire Ingabire, Congo-Kinshasa, United States, Catherine Ashton, Jean-Léonard Rugambage, André Kagwa Rwisekera, Jill Rutaremara, Patrick Karegeya, South Africa, Emmanuel Karake Karenzi, Charles Muhire, Jean-Bosco Kazura, Faustin Kayumba Nyamwasa, Gladstone Dumisani Gwadiso, Rugigana Ngabo, Déogratias Mushayidi, Parti Social Démocrate, Parti Libéral, du Progrès et de la Concorde, Forum de Concertation des Formations Politiques, Forces Démocratiques Unies, Forces Démocratiques de Libération du Rwanda, Umuvugizi, Forces Rwandaises de Défense, Front Patriotique Rwandais