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Paul Kagame was sworn in for a fourth five-year term at a ceremony at Amahoro Stadium in Kigali.
The ceremony was attended by the Chief Justice of Rwanda, Faustin Ntzeliayo, and a number of African heads of state and dignitaries, as Kagame affirmed his commitment to maintaining peace, national sovereignty and strengthening unity in Rwanda.
Kagame has been Rwanda’s president since March 2000, having initially been endorsed by parliament, and then won elections in 2003, 2010 and 2017.
In the last elections held in July, the electoral commission announced that he had won with 99.18% of the vote, repeating the results he had obtained in previous elections.
Paul Kagame was born in 1957 to a Tutsi family that was forced to flee to Uganda to escape persecution in Rwanda. Kagame participated in the opposition Rwandan Patriotic Front during the Rwandan civil war in the 1990s and became its leader after the genocide against the Tutsis in 1994.
Kagame succeeded in pulling Rwanda out of the tunnel after the genocide and achieving a remarkable economic and social renaissance and worked on national reconciliation between the Tutsis and the Hutus and rebuilding state institutions.
Kagame faces criticism from the opposition and the international community for suppressing political opposition and extending his rule, and there are security and political challenges facing Rwanda, especially on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Kagame wins a fourth presidential term in Rwanda