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[ 8/11/2010 12:45:09 PM ]
XINHUANET
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Rwanda - Politics
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Rwandan incumbent president Kagame wins re-election with 93 percent of Votes: electoral commission
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| Rwandan incumbent President Paul Kagame has won re-election for a second term of seven years, the National Electoral Commission announced on Wednesday.
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Kagame garnered 93 percent of the votes.
Rwandans went to polls on Monday to elect a new president.
The National electoral body said that the voter turnout around the whole country reached beyond 90 percent.
"In general there was not any delay voting, and the preliminary results should come out later before tonight (on Monday)", Executive Secretary of the National Electoral body Pierre Damien Habumuremyi said late Monday.
Incumbent President Paul Kagame was one of the four presidential candidates contesting in the race.
Kagame was elected during a general presidential election in 2003 with 95 percent of the votes.
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Rwanda Prepares to Rebury Genocide Victims
As a generation approaches adulthood unburdened by memories of the conflict between ethnic Hutus and Tutsis, Rwanda plans to rebury hundreds of bodies on public display at the Murambi genocide memorial. But the plan is provoking debate about how future generations will commemorate the atrocities of 1994.
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Rwanda to press for genocide charges against FDLR leader
After closely monitoring the trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) in The Hague, Rwandan prosecutors remain undeterred as they seek to bring to book Callixte Mbarushimana, leader of the FDLR (Forces Democratiques pour la Liberation du Rwanda) militia, for his alleged involvement in the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi minority in Rwanda.
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Prison waste cuts costs in Rwanda
Nsinda Prison - A prisoner ignites a faint blue flame under one of 10 massive stoves in a prison kitchen in eastern Rwanda to start preparing a maize and bean lunch for the inmates.
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Documentarians Learn Ways to Best Preserve History of Rwanda's Painful Past
Four staff members from the Kigali Genocide Memorial Center in Rwanda recently traveled to Los Angeles to learn techniques on how to best preserve the oral history of what happened in Rwanda 17 years ago. As many as one million people lost their lives in the Rwandan Tutsi genocide of 1994. Many people did survive the horror, and their stories are waiting to be heard.
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One killed as grenade explodes near Kigali
At least one people was killed while two others were seriously injured Wednesday evening in Rwanda, after a grenade they mistook for treasure exploded in a garbage can at Jabana village, a suburb of Kigali city, police sources said here.
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