Rwanda’s leader, Paul Kagame, has made impressive gains since the devastating genocide that started 30 years ago this weekend. But he’s done it with increasingly repressive methods - and the ethnic divide the president claims to have banished endures in his own system of rule.…

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Bassirou Diomaye Faye's victory is about 'Senegal voting for a break from the past, for a complete change,” said Maurice Soudieck Dione, adding that Macky Sall's decisions 'united all the forces against him.'

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Senegalese will go to the polls on Sunday in the first election in which the incumbent president is not on the ballot — and the first election in Senegal's history that has been delayed. Our The Washington Post piece on what to know: washingtonpost.com/world/2024/03/…

On Saturday, Niger's junta declared the US military presence illegal. But days later, American officials are still determining in closed-door talks if there is a way to hold on. Our story, with Dan Lamothe and Michael Birnbaum: wapo.st/3VtaaN6