Rwandans will go to the polls to elect a president on August 4, but asking whether General Paul Kagame will win is like asking whether bears shit in the woods.
David Himbara
Rwanda was recently in the news because of the arrest of Violette Uwamahoro in February 2017. Uwamahoro, the wife of a Rwandan opposition activist, was returning to Rwanda from England in order to attend a funeral when she was arrested.
Victoire Ingabire Umuhoza is a Rwandan woman who decided to return to Rwanda in 2010 to run against President Paul Kagame in that year’s presidential elections. Prior to her return to Rwanda, she had been living in the Netherlands for 16 years.
The tiny East African nation of Rwanda has played a unique and prominent role in U.S. political ideation since the 1994 massacres known as the Rwandan Genocide.