Observers cast doubt on Rwandan elections

Rwanda’s presidential election was marred by irregularities, including some instances of President Paul Kagame’s agents telling people to vote for him, the leading EU election observer has said.

Colette Flesch, head of the 72 EU electoral observers who monitored the election, stopped short of endorsing Kagame’s landslide victory in Monday’s vote, which came nine years after more than half a million people, mostly minority Tutsis, were slaughtered by extremists from the Hutu majority.