Rwanda's President Paul Kagame said he will stand for re-election next year, hoping to extend nearly a quarter of a century in power, Reuters reported.
Kagame, who became president in 2000, is eligible to continue in office for another decade after a constitutional amendment in 2015 changed term limits that would have forced him to step down two years later.
He was asked in an interview with the pan-African Jeune Afrique magazine published on Tuesday about his intentions for next year's election.
"I am happy with the confidence that the Rwandans have shown in me. I will always serve them, as much when I can. Yes, I am indeed a candidate," he said.
Kagame won the last election in August 2017 for a seven-year term with 98.63% of the vote, according to the electoral commission.
Kagame has won international acclaim for presiding over peace and economic growth since the end of the 1994 genocide, in which an estimated 800,000 ethnic Tutsis and moderate Hutus were killed.
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