Rwanda: President to Run for Third Term in Office

1 January 2016

Rwandan President Paul Kagame has declared he will run for a third term in office after his second seven-year term expires in 2017.

The announcement in his end-of-year message on Friday follows last month's constitutional referendum in which 98.3 percent of Rwandans voted to approve the country's revised Constitution to allow Kagame to run again after his term ends. The move has been opposed by the US.

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