Kagame wins by landslide in Rwanda election

Nine years after Hutu extremists tried to wipe out minority Tutsis, Rwandans have voted overwhelmingly for a Tutsi president, with 95.05% casting ballots for incumbent Paul Kagame in the country’s first real presidential election, the electoral commission said.

The austere rebel leader whose forces ended the 100-day slaughter in 1994 beat two challengers in Monday’s vote on a record of pulling the tiny central African nation of eight million together and working to rebuild its economy.