US: Government worried by Rwanda survey abnormalities

Kagame, 59, came back to the steerage of the east African country which he has ruled with an iron clench hand since the finish of the 1994 genocide with 98.63 percent - exceeding his counts of 95 percent in 2003 and 93 percent in 2010 (AFP)

The United States said Saturday it was "irritated by inconsistencies" in Rwanda's presidential race which saw Paul Kagame praise a third sequential triumph with about 99 percent of the vote.

State Department representative Heather Nauert said the US "compliments the general population of Rwanda on their dynamic and serene investment" in the survey yet included: "We are aggravated by anomalies saw amid voting and repeat long-standing worries over the trustworthiness of the vote-classification process."

Kagame, 59, came back to the steerage of the east African country which he has ruled with an iron clench hand since the finish of the 1994 genocide with 98.63 percent of tickets cast - exceeding his counts of 95 percent in 2003 and 93 percent in 2010.

Straight to the point Habineza of the Democratic Green Party - the main allowed basic restriction party - won only 0.45 percent of votes, beaten into third place by the little-known autonomous applicant Philippe Mpayimana with 0.72.

Nauert, who distinctly did not specify Kagame by name in her announcement, said a specific concern was the absence of straightforwardness in deciding the qualification criteria.

"We trust the new constituent law to be bantered in the following session of Parliament will clear up that procedure a long time before the 2018 parliamentary races," she said.

Kagame is credited with a striking turnaround in the smashed country, which gloats yearly financial development of around seven percent, is sheltered, clean and has little debasement. Rwanda likewise has the most elevated number of female officials on the planet.

However rights bunches blame Kagame for decision through dread, depending on efficient suppression of the restriction, free discourse and the media.

Kagame's commentators have wound up imprisoned, constrained into oust or killed. Scarcely any Rwandans would set out to transparently talk against him.