A disabled man prepares to cast his vote at a polling station in Kigali, Rwanda, August 4, 2017. REUTERS/Jean Bizimana
KIGALI (Reuters) - Rwandan voters queued in long lines on Friday to cast their ballots in a presidential election that incumbent President Paul Kagame is tipped to win by a landslide after 17 years in power.
Kagame has won international plaudits for presiding over a peaceful and rapid economic recovery in the tiny central African nation since the 1994 genocide, when an estimated 800,000 people Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed.
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