Looking Ahead

Rwandan elections

More proof that all politics are local: Rwandan President Paul Kagame is widely expected to win another seven-year term on Aug. 9 despite suspicions and accusations from the West. At home, the Rwandan leader is known for helping the central African nation experience economic growth and stability after the 1994 genocide. But Western human-rights watchers have accused Kagame of shutting down dissidents. The Economist magazine compared him unfavorably to Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe in terms of allowing press freedoms.

Rifqa Bary turns 18

The Ohio teenager who ran away from her Muslim parents in 2009 after fearing reprisal for becoming a Christian becomes an adult Aug. 10 as she turns 18. Rifqa Bary fled Ohio to Florida to live with a Christian pastor and his family after meeting them on Facebook in 2009. But eventually, both Florida and Ohio officials decided she should be returned to Ohio. Earlier this spring, doctors diagnosed Bary with advanced uterine cancer.

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August 14, 2010, Vol. 25, No. 16

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