Elections put Rwanda ‘on right path’

INCUMBENT President Paul Kagame told the world yesterday that genocide-scarred Rwanda is “on the right path”, after he scored an overwhelming election win seen as confirming support for his efforts to heal the African nation’s wounds.q

Election officials said Mr Kagame had 94% support with about half the districts reporting in Monday’s presidential vote, the first since a 1994 genocide that left some 800,000 people dead.

Most victims were minority Tutsis killed by Hutu extremists.