The winding roads to this town in northern Rwanda were lined with election posters for the man who has been president for decades: Paul Kagame.
Businesses were ordered shut and women swept the streets before the president’s convoy swooshed by, heading for a huge rally in a stadium bedecked with the governing party’s red, white and sky-blue colors.
A day later, Mr. Kagame’s main challenger, Frank Habineza, arrived in the same town without a fanfare.
His party’s colors — green, yellow and white — were absent from the now-busy streets.
A few dozen people, many of them his own election workers, gathered under a tent by the street to listen to him.
Persons:
Paul Kagame, Kagame’s, Frank Habineza
Organizations:
Security
Locations:
Rwanda