Voters Go to Polls for Local Elections
From Times Wire Reports
Rwandans voted in local elections in the first secret balloting since more than 800,000 people were massacred in the tiny central African country in 1994.
Political parties have been banned from fielding candidates for fear of rekindling the ethnic hatred that prompted the genocide.
Instead, more than 8,000 candidates vied on independent platforms for positions in community councils across the country. It will be the first time since the 1960s that these positions have not been filled by presidential appointees.
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