Kagame wins Rwanda election with 99.15 percent of vote
Voters queue while waiting their turn to cast their ballots during the 2024 Rwandan general elections at a polling station in Kigali, on July 15, 2024. Millions of Rwandans head to the polls on July 15, 2024 with veteran President Paul Kagame set to cruise to an easy victory over his two approved challengers and extend his iron-fisted rule for another five years. (Photo by LUIS TATO / AFP)
De facto leader since the end of the 1994 genocide and president since 2000, Kagame scored 99.15 percent of the vote, the National Election Commission announced after 79 percent of ballots had been counted.
It tops the 98.79 percent Kagame won in the last election in 2017 and is streets ahead of the vote garnered by the only two candidates authorised to run against him.
Democratic Green Party candidate Frank Habineza was given 0.53 percent of the vote and independent Philippe Mpayimana 0.32 percent.
The outcome of Monday's poll was never in doubt, with Kagame accused of muzzling the opposition and several prominent critics barred from the race.
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