Sectarianism In the News

Ingelaere, Bert. “Rwanda’s Forever President.” The New York Times, The New York Times, 2 Aug. 2017, www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/opinion/paul-kagame-rwandas-forever-president.html



Kagame Paul is coming up on his third term for the Presidency of Rwanda. Even though the countries constitution doesn't allow this, yet the government literally voted for him to be allowed to run more than 2 terms. Since he first became president, Kagame has grown the economy by 8% between 2001 and 2014. He has also dropped the rates of poverty by 17%.  While all of this sounds promising, the Rwanda government also hides the bas news and some say that the poverty rate has gone up 6% and hasn't increased at all. Even if he has done good in his 2 terms of his presidency he should not be allowed to break the country's constitution and run for a third term.