RWANDAN political strongman Paul Kagame has been elected president by an electoral college of parliamentarians and members of the government. Kagame, head of the Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), was voted in by 81 votes to five. He was standing against RPF Secretary-General Charles Murigande. He had been acting president since the previous head of state, President Pasteur Bizimungu, stood down last month and had been widely expected to win the vote.