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Rwanda's Kagame cruises to crushing election victory

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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. [AFP]

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame has scored a crushing election victory that will extend his iron-fisted rule by another five years, according to partial results issued Monday.

De facto leader since the end of the 1994 genocide and president since 2000, Kagame scored 99.15 per cent of the vote, the National Election Commission announced after 79 per cent of ballots had been counted.

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