KIGALI - Cindy McCain, the wife of US Republican presidential  candidate, Sen. John McCain, Saturday paid respect to victims of the 1994 Genocide of Tutsis at the Kigali Genocide Memorial site in Gisozi.

Mrs. McCain was accompanied by  Mike Huckabee, who contested with her husband for the Republican presidential nomination, are part of a 40-plus delegation led by former Senate Majority Leaders;Tom Daschle and Bill Frist.

The group laid wreaths at the memorial site where close to 300,000 victims of the Genocide have been put to rest. They also visited a coffee project in Nyandungu.

The delegation is part of the non-partisan ONE campaign, an organization that uses grass-roots efforts to pressure world leaders to address poverty and preventable diseases.

While in the country, the group will visit various US funded projects in the Northern and Eastern Provinces.

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