Rwanda's Supreme Court yesterday confirmed the results of the presidential election in which outgoing leader Paul Kagame won a landslide victory.

"The court confirmed the number of votes on Wednesday.

Aside from a difference of two votes, all the results remain unchanged from the numbers announced on August 26, a day after the landmark poll,” a spokesperson for the court Albert Basomungera said.

Kagame, a former guerilla who helped put an end to the 1994 genocide in which a million of his ethnic Tutsi kinsmen and moderate Hutus were slaughtered, was elected with an overwhelming 95% of the vote.

His main opponent, former Prime Minister Faustin Twagiramungu, failed in a bid to have the election annulled because of alleged electoral fraud and voter intimidation.

Twagiramungu, who was forced to run as an independent after his party was banned, won 3,6% of the vote, according to official results.

The August 25 poll was Rwanda's first election since the 1994 genocide.

While European Union officials criticized it as marred by irregularities and fraud, many observers praised it as a landmark vote that signalled great progress in the troubled central African state's democratisation process. – Sapa.