Rwanda's President Paul Kagame – who has held power for 30 years – is heading towards an overwhelming victory in Monday's presidential election, according to preliminary results.
Kagame is said to have received 99.15 percent of the voters' votes when 79 percent of the votes have been counted, according to the country's election commission.
This surpasses the last, strongly disputed presidential election in 2017, which resulted in a claimed support of 98.8 percent for Kagame, whose party, the Rwandan Patriotic Front (FPR), has dominated politics since the genocide in 1994.
Kagame is accused of having "silenced" the opposition and prevented several prominent opposition critics from running in the election.
