Rwandan President Paul Kagame was sworn inwards for a tertiary term Fri subsequently winning re-election amongst well-nigh 99 percentage of the vote.
Many African leaders attended the ceremony inwards the capital, Kigali.
The longtime president had described the Aug. four election every bit "a formality" spell campaigning.
The East African patch has virtually no political opposition, together with critics bill Kagame of existence intolerant of dissent. He denies it.
Kagame has been de facto leader or president since the halt of the 1994 genocide.
Because of a modify to the constitution inwards 2015, he tin sack legally remain inwards ability until 2034.
Human Rights Watch said inwards a disceptation Fri that inwards the months leading to the election it documented a designing of harassment, arrests together with detentions of opposition political party leaders together with supporters, activists together with journalists.
Several were forcibly disappeared or prosecuted subsequently making comments critical of the electrical flow authorities or ruling party, the rights grouping said.
"Kagame's landslide win came every bit no surprise inwards a context inwards which Rwandans who bring dared enhance their voices or challenge the condition quo bring been arrested, forcibly disappeared or killed," the group's Ida Sawyer said inwards the statement.
Amnesty International had described a "climate of fear" ahead of the vote.
AP/Photo credit: First Lady of Rwanda, Uluru Kenyatta (Twitter)