Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has been re-elected with 99.18% of the vote, the National Electoral Commission said on Thursday.
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has been re-elected with 99.18% of the vote, the National Electoral Commission said on Thursday.
That result – off a reported turnout of 98% – gives him a fourth term and extends his near quarter of a century rule. And it’s not exactly a surprising result.He helped lead the rebel movement that ended Rwanda’s 1994 genocide and has since been praised for rebuilding the country of 14 million people after that most horrific of chapters.
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