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Rwanda’s risky bet on booming economic future

A Rwandan policeman walks past the dome of the Kigali Convention Centre in Kigali as it glows with the colours of the Rwandan flag. [AFP]

In a two-year-old mall in Kigali’s city centre, bored shopkeepers chat idly as muzak echoes through the quiet interior, with barely a client in sight on a weekday morning.

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