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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Carlos Mureithi East Africa correspondent and Ignatius Ssuuna in Kigali

Paul Kagame expected to be re-elected president as Rwanda goes to polls

People queuing in a line
Voters queue to cast their ballot early on Monday at a polling station in Kigali, the Rwandan capital. Photograph: Luis Tato/AFP/Getty Images

People in Rwanda have gone to the polls for elections in which Paul Kagame is widely expected to extend his rule of the central African country.

This is the fourth presidential ballot since more than 800,000 people, mostly members of the Tutsi ethnic minority, were killed in a genocide in the country 30 years ago.

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