{"id":409445,"date":"2017-08-05T08:27:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T08:27:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/08\/05\/paul-kagame-wins-by-landslide\/"},"modified":"2017-08-05T08:27:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T08:27:33","slug":"paul-kagame-wins-by-landslide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/05\/paul-kagame-wins-by-landslide\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Kagame wins by landslide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\">&#13;<br \/>\n                <\/aside>\n<p><!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 3.4.4--><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body__introduction\">President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has won a third term in office with a landslide, the country\u2019s electoral commission has announced.<\/p>\n<p>Partial results of Friday\u2019s election gave him 98% of the votes, it said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kagame\u2019s supporters, who say that he has brought stability and economic development after the horrors of the 1994 genocide, began celebrating before the announcement.<\/p>\n<p>Critics \u2013 most of whom are outside the country \u2013 say he rules through fear.<\/p>\n<p>After his victory, Mr Kagame vowed to keep up the country\u2019s economic growth.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is another seven years to take care of issues that affect Rwandans and ensure that we become real Rwandans who are [economically] developing,\u201d Mr Kagame said in a speech broadcast on live television.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kagame, who has been in power for 17 years, was challenged by Frank Habineza, from the Democratic Green Party, and Philippe Mpayimana, an independent.<\/p>\n<p>Another independent challenger, businesswoman and rights activist Diane Shima Rwigara, was disqualified by the electoral commission.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining eight opposition parties did not put forward a candidate and instead backed President Kagame.<\/p>\n<p>The president previously called the election \u201cjust a formality\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kagame, 59, came to power in 1994, when his Tutsi rebel group took control of the capital, Kigali, ending the genocide in which some 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were slaughtered.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda\u2019s constitution was amended in 2015, following a referendum, enabling Mr Kagame to run for a third term.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond this, he could run again, potentially staying in power until 2034.<\/p>\n<p>His two challengers have complained that their supporters have been intimidated, which they say explains the low turnout at their rallies.<\/p>\n<p>The candidates have also accused some local authorities of undermining their campaigns.<\/p>\n<p>The ruling party denies any accusations of wrongdoing.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has won a third term in office with a landslide, the country\u2019s electoral commission has announced. Partial results of Friday\u2019s election gave him 98% of the votes, it said. Mr Kagame\u2019s supporters, who say that he has brought stability and economic development after the horrors of the 1994 genocide, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":409446,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-409445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Paul Kagame wins by landslide - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/08\/05\/paul-kagame-wins-by-landslide\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Paul Kagame wins by landslide - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"&#013; President Paul Kagame of Rwanda has won a third term in office with a landslide, the country\u2019s electoral commission has announced. 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