Rwanda’s Kagame wins fourth term with 99.18% of the vote, provisional results show

With a 99.18% vote share in the 2024 presidential elections, according to full provisional results published Thursday, Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame secured an even greater margin than in the last vote in 2017, which he swept with 98.79% of the vote. Kagame’s latest election victory sees Rwanda’s longstanding leader enter his fourth decade at the helm since he seized power as the head of a rebel group that ended the 1994 genocide.