291: thousands of electoral observers due in Rwanda

News today that Rwanda is to host at least 3000 local and international observers when it holds parliamentary elections in September. As today's linked article from Rwandan paper The New Times reports (via Allafrica.com), accreditation of the observers is now underway and some have already arrived in Rwanda from the EU and elsewhere. All eyes will be on Rwanda following the electoral disputes and violence in Kenya, Zimbabwe and elsewhere across the continent. So it's good to see democratic safeguards in place here, in a country that has managed to rebuild itself in recent years following the 1990s genocide. There is much at stake.