Campaigning officially began Thursday in the Democratic Republic of Congo's first free presidential election since the country gained independence in 1960.

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Nine years after mass genocide took the lives of nearly one million Rwandans, citizens in the small Central African nation of eight million re-elected the man credited for his role in ending the country's decades-long war.

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Although a series of brutal conflicts have been waged between Hutus and Tutsis, including the genocidal war in Rwanda, distinctions between the two groups are less than clear.

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