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Rwanda's President Paul Kagame gestures as he gives a press conference after his final election campaign rally at Kigali Convention Centre in Kigali, Rwanda Saturday, July 13, 2024. Rwandans are voting Monday, July 15, 2024, in a presidential election that is expected to extend the long rule of President Kagame, who has held power since 1994. (AP Photo/Brian Inganga, File)

Rwandans vote in presidential election that’s set to extend the 30-year rule of Paul Kagame

By Ignatius Ssuuna - Associated Press

South African President Cyril Ramaphosa, centre left, is greeted by African National Congress supporters as he arrives at the Mose Mabhida stadium in Durban, South Africa, Saturday, Feb. 24, 2024, for the ANC national manifesto launch in anticipation of the 2024 general elections. (AP Photo/Jerome Delay)

A string of votes provides stress test for health of African democracy

By Geoff Hill - Special to The Washington Times

President of Rwanda Paul Kagame walks along Downing Street to a meeting with Britain's Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in London, Thursday, May 4, 2023. Rwanda's president says he will run for a fourth term next year and declares that "what the West thinks is not my problem." President Paul Kagame made the announcement in an interview with the French-language publication Jeune Afrique published on Tuesday, Sept. 19. (AP Photo/Vadim Ghirda, file)

Rwanda’s president says he’ll run for a fourth term and doesn’t care what the West thinks about it

By Ignatius Ssuuna and Cara Anna - Associated Press

Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the film "Hotel Rwanda" and is credited with saving more than 1,000 people by sheltering them at the hotel he managed during the genocide, attends a court hearing in Kigali, Rwanda, Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. Rwanda's government has commuted the sentence of Rusesabagina who was convicted of terrorism offenses years later in a widely criticized trial. Government spokeswoman Yolande Makolo told The Associated Press on Friday, March 24, 2023, that the 25-year sentence was commuted by presidential order after a request for clemency. (AP Photo/Muhizi Olivier, File)

Rwanda says Rusesabagina of ‘Hotel Rwanda’ fame to be freed

By Cara Anna and Ignatius Ssuuna - Associated Press

FILE- In this Friday, April 5, 2019 file photo, flowers are laid on top of a glass case containing the skulls of some of those who were slaughtered as they sought refuge in the church, kept as a memorial to the thousands who were killed in and around the Catholic church during the 1994 genocide, inside the church in Ntarama, Rwanda. A commission that spent nearly two years uncovering France's role in 1994's Rwandan genocide concluded Friday, March 26, 2021 that the country reacted too slowly in appreciating the extent of the horror that left over 800,000 dead and bears &quot;heavy and overwhelming responsibilities&quot; in the drift that led to the killings, but cleared the country of any complicity in the slaughter that mainly targeted Rwanda's Tutsi ethnic minority. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis, File)

Rwanda’s Kagame welcomes French ‘truth’ about the genocide

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA and RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the film &quot;Hotel Rwanda&quot; and is credited with saving more than 1,000 people by sheltering them at the hotel he managed during the genocide, attends a court hearing in Kigali, Rwanda Friday, Feb. 26, 2021. The judge on Friday rejected Rusesabagina's argument in his terrorism trial that a court there cannot try him because he is no longer a citizen. (AP Photo/Muhizi Olivier)

‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero was tricked onto plane, into arrest

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA - Associated Press

‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero faces trial as family fears for his life

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA - Associated Press

Paul Rusesabagina, who inspired the film &quot;Hotel Rwanda&quot; for saving people from genocide, appears at the Kicukiro Primary Court in the capital Kigali, Rwanda Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. Rusesabagina became famous for protecting more than 1,000 people as a hotel manager during Rwanda's 1994 genocide and was awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005 but Rwandan authorities accused him of supporting the armed wing of his opposition political platform, which has claimed responsibility for deadly attacks inside Rwanda. (AP Photo)

Man of ‘Hotel Rwanda’ fame denied bail in terrorism case

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA - Associated Press

Paul Rusesabagina, center, who inspired the film &quot;Hotel Rwanda&quot; for saving people from genocide, appears at the Kicukiro Primary Court in the capital Kigali, Rwanda Monday, Sept. 14, 2020. Rusesabagina became famous for protecting more than 1,000 people as a hotel manager during Rwanda's 1994 genocide and was awarded the U.S. Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2005 but Rwandan authorities accused him of supporting the armed wing of his opposition political platform, which has claimed responsibility for deadly attacks inside Rwanda. (AP Photo)

‘Hotel Rwanda’ hero charged with terrorism in Rwanda court

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA - Associated Press

Popular Rwandan gospel musician found dead in police cell

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA - Associated Press

Rwanda rejects British legislators’ call to free officers

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA - Associated Press

Rwandan President Paul Kagame, who officially came to power in 2000 after commanding a rebel force that ended the 1994 genocide, has helped spur economic development but crushed political freedoms and civil liberties, analysts say. (Associated Press/File)

Eugene Ndereyimana disappears under Paul Kagame, Rwanda ruler

By Tonny Onyulo - Special to The Washington Times

Uganda, Rwanda presidents agree to cease hostilities

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA and IGNATIUS SSUUNA - Associated Press

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, center, and First Lady Jeannette Kagame, right, arrive at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Kigali, Rwanda Sunday, April 7, 2019. Rwanda is commemorating the 25th anniversary of when the country descended into an orgy of violence in which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred by the majority Hutu population over a 100-day period in what was the worst genocide in recent history. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

25 years after genocide, Rwanda’s Kagame is praised, feared

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame answers questions from the media at a press conference at a convention center in the capital Kigali, Rwanda, Monday, April 8, 2019. Rwanda on Sunday commemorated the 25th anniversary of when the country descended into an orgy of violence in which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred by the majority Hutu population over a 100-day period in what was the worst genocide in recent history. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

25 years after genocide, Rwanda’s president praises healing

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA - Associated Press

From left to right, Chairperson of the African Union Commission Moussa Faki Mahamat, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, Rwanda's First Lady Jeannette Kagame, and President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, light the flame of remembrance at the Kigali Genocide Memorial in Kigali, Rwanda, Sunday, April 7, 2019. Rwanda is commemorating the 25th anniversary of when the country descended into an orgy of violence in which some 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus were massacred by the majority Hutu population over a 100-day period in what was the worst genocide in recent history. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

Rwanda somberly marks the start of genocide 25 years ago

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA - Associated Press

In this photo taken Thursday, April 4, 2019, genocide survivor Laurencia Mukalemera, left, a Tutsi, is offered a cup of water by Tasian Nkundiye, right, a Hutu who murdered her husband and spent eight years in prison for the killing and other crimes, before being interviewed at Nkundiye's home in the reconciliation village of Mbyo, near Nyamata, in Rwanda. Twenty-five years after the genocide the country has six &quot;reconciliation villages&quot; where convicted perpetrators who have been released from prison after publicly apologizing for their crimes live side by side with genocide survivors who have professed forgiveness. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)

25 years after genocide, can Rwanda heal? 6 villages try

By IGNATIUS SSUUNA - Associated Press

Uganda denies backing Rwandan rebels as tensions grow

By RODNEY MUHUMUZA - Associated Press

FILE - In this Friday, Oct. 6, 2017 file photo, former Rwanda presidential candidate Diane Rwigara is escorted by policemen to a court where she denied charges of insurrection and forgery that she says are linked to her criticism of the government's human rights record. As she waits for a judge to pronounce her fate on Thursday, Dec. 6, 2018, the Rwandan opposition leader accused of inciting insurrection and forgery says no amount of pressure will silence her. (AP Photo, File)

Rwandan court drops all charges against opposition figure

By BY IGNATIUS SSUUNA - Associated Press