Incumbent Wins Presidential Vote
From Times Wire Reports
Nine years after genocide that killed more than 800,000 people, Rwandans voted overwhelmingly for incumbent Paul Kagame in the country’s first real presidential election, the electoral commission said.
Kagame’s chief challenger, Faustin Twagiramungu, refused to accept the result, which gave the incumbent 95%, and said voters were intimidated into choosing him. Colette Flesch, lead European Union observer, declined to comment on any irregularities until all 65 EU observers filed their reports.
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