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By Edmund Kagire

PARLIAMENT - President-elect, Paul Kagame, yesterday, called on local government leaders to join him and embark on another seven years of hard work, so as to achieve the country’s development ambitions.

Addressing local government leaders from the provincial, district and sector levels across the country at the Parliamentary buildings, President Kagame said that the foundation is already laid and the Rwandan people are as determined as ever, adding that the country has what it takes to accelerate development.

Kagame said that Rwandans successfully stood their ground and proved the country’s critics wrong in the just concluded Presidential elections, by making a choice they knew was right.

By Paul Kagame (FT.com)

A listener sent me a text message during a radio show after Rwanda’s recent elections. It read: “I didn’t vote for Kagame, but I still expect him to bring electricity to my village.” In this way it is now common in Rwanda to hold leaders to account, and to demand they improve livelihoods. Yet while few doubt my country’s rapid social and economic progress, too many observers are blind to the successes of our political evolution.

EAC Secretary General congratulates president Kagame on election victory.

Your Excellency
On behalf of the East African Community Secretariat, and on my own behalf, I extend to your Excellency warm congratulations on your re-election as President of the Republic of Rwanda. Your resounding victory in the presidential elections demonstrates the confidence which the people of Rwanda have reposed in your foresighted and able leadership. It is a tribute to the courage and dignity of the people of Rwanda in putting the traumatic past behind them and rallying round your call to renew and rebuild their great nation.

By Fred Oluoch-Ojiwah; The New Times

KIGALI - After Rwanda’s second presidential election schedule was announced, the Commonwealth Observer Group (COG), a body that was constituted by the Commonwealth Secretary-General at the invitation of the National Electoral Commission of Rwanda (NEC)named its observer mission to the polls.

COG’s mandate was to observe the preparation for the elections, the polling, counting and the overall electoral environment.

The team, was headed by Dr Salim Ahmed Salim a career diplomat and former Secretary General of the Organization of African Unity(OAU).

Fred Oluoch-Ojiwah of The NewTimes spoke to Dr Salim prior to the completion of COG’s mission.

MINEDUC to increase science centres

By Eugene Mutara; The New Times

The State Minister for Primary and Secondary Education, Dr Mathias Harebamungu, yesterday, announced that plans are underway to increase Science centres of excellence from one per district, to either two or three.

The centre of excellence is a fully equipped science laboratory established in schools through government funding. During examination time, candidates from surrounding schools use the centre to sit for practical exams.

Kagame polls 93.08% - NEC

By Edwin Musoni; The New Times

KIGALI - Incumbent President Paul Kagame won the Monday election with 93.08 percent of the total votes cast, according to the overall provisional results released yesterday by the National Electoral (NEC) Commission.

Dr Jean Damascene Ntawukuriryayo of the Social Democratic Party (PSD) came a distant second with 5.15 percent, while Liberal Party’s Prosper Higiro managed 1.37 percent, with Alvera Mukabaramba of the Party for Progress and Concorde (PPC), receiving just 0.4 percent of the votes cast.

;The New Times

Stockholm-Presidential elections by the Diaspora in the Nordic Countries yesterday attracted what could be a record turn out as Rwandans from all corners of the region—many of them voting for the first time in their lives—converged on the Swedish capital Stockholm, and the border towns of Malmö and Strömstad.

Rwandans from Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland were casting their ballots a day ahead of the elections in Rwanda along with the rest of the Diaspora.

Elections free and fair– EAC observers

By Bosco R. Asiimwe; The New Times

KIGALI - THE East African Community (EAC) election observers have said that Monday’s presidential elections were democratic, peaceful and met international standards.

While briefing the press in Kigali, yesterday, Dr. Sabine Ntakarutimana, the head of the observer mission, said that the elections provided freedom of association, expression, assembly, movement and the equal right to vote.

DAILY NATION, Kenya The peaceful referendum conducted in Kenya and calm elections in Rwanda, which saw President Paul Kagame re-elected, are a clear indication that democracy in the region has matured. East Africa Community secretary general Juma Mwapachu said the peaceful environment was bound to attract more investors to the region.
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Interview for the minister of foreign affairs and cooperation

Interview for the minister of foreign affairs and cooperation, Louise Mushikiwabo with El Pais.

Q. Is President Kagame disappointed with the outcome of his visit in Spain and the attitude of Mr Zapatero?

No – President Kagame purpose in coming to Spain was to participate in the first meeting of the Advisory Group on MDGs at the invitation of the UN Secretary General. This turned out to be an important and productive meeting and we are happy with the outcomes. Your country is dealing with significant economic and political challenges and the decision by Prime Minister Zapatero not to participate is linked to domestic Spanish politics – the Prime Minister explained this to us through your Foreign Minister Moratinos ahead of the meeting and we understood.

NEC Meets Election Observers

By Charles Kwizera; The New Times

KIGALI - Observers in the forthcoming Presidential election have been urged to carry out their work with the highest degree of objectivity.

The call was made yesterday by the Chairman of the National Electoral Commission (NEC), Chrysologue Karangwa, in a meeting that brought him together with the over a thousand accredited observers for the August 9 polls.

By Edmund Kagire; The New Times

KIREHE - The RPF Presidential candidate and incumbent, Paul Kagame, yesterday said that Rwandans don’t owe anybody anything, warning that those who want to make choices for Rwandans or shape the future of this country will not be given any chance.

Addressing over 95, 000 people at Nyakarambi-Kirehe District Headquarters in the Eastern Province, Kagame said that Rwandans should be accorded the dignity and respect they deserve and left alone to make their own choices.

Kagame said that Rwandans will not tolerate those who want to make choices or determine what Rwandans want, whether they are Rwandans or foreigners.

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