Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has been re-elected to a fourth term in office with more than 99 percent of the vote, according to electoral authorities.

• Kagame, the country’s de facto leader for three decades, faced only two challengers after the courts banned his most prominent critics. 
• The National Electoral Commission said on Thursday that full provisional results showed Kagame had won 99.18 percent of the vote.
• Frank Habineza of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda got 0.5 percent, while independent Philippe Mpayimana received 0.32 percent, the commission said.
• Kagame’s vote share tops the 98.7 percent he secured in the last election in 2017.
• The commission barred eight other candidates from running, citing a range of incomplete registration documents.