The Head of state is in Beijing to attend the prestigious summit dubbed ‘Forum for Africa-China Cooperation, FOCAC’ hosted by the Chinese government.
Early in the morning, Rwandans based overseas descended to different polling stations located at embassies and consulates to vote for members of the august house.
Due to global time zone differences, Rwandans in New-Zealand were the first to cast their votes while it was night in Kigali. They were at their polling stations at 9a.m in the morning, being Saturday, 11 p.m in Rwanda.
In other places such as Tokyo, Rwandans also turned out early and in great numbers to vote for their candidates.
In Auckland, Rwandans gathered at 9 a.m to vote in proceedings that were said to be peaceful, according to Egide Kalisa, as they were given every necessity by their Embassy located in Singapour.
There are 46,955 voters expected to vote from 115 polling stations in Diaspora, up from last year’s 44,362 in 98 stations in presidential elections.
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