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Incumbent President of Rwanda and Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) presidential candidate Paul Kagame gets her finger inked with indelible ink by a Rwanda National Electoral Commission (NEC) official after casting his ballot at the SOS Kinyinya polling station in Kigali, on July 15, 2024. [AFP]
Rwanda's President Paul Kagame won a crushing election victory that will extend his iron-fisted rule by another five years, according to partial results issued on 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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