{"id":1331,"date":"2011-12-13T01:36:47","date_gmt":"2011-12-13T01:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kenyans-in-rwanda-celebrate-jamhuri\/"},"modified":"2011-12-13T01:36:27","modified_gmt":"2011-12-13T01:36:27","slug":"kenyans-in-rwanda-celebrate-jamhuri","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kenyans-in-rwanda-celebrate-jamhuri\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyans In Rwanda Celebrate Jamhuri"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-998 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bishimiye_ubwigenge_bwa_kenya.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{The Kenyan High Commissioner Rose Makena Muchiri has called for more cooperation between her country and Rwanda, a move meant to spur the region\u2019s integration process.}}<\/p>\n<p>Addressing Kenyans and friends at the 48th Independence Day (Jamhuri) celebrations held at her residence, Muchiri commended the collaboration especially those that are development-focused.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn such a day we celebrate heroes who fought four our independence in 1963 and it is time to reflect on our success and challenges and discuss ways of improving our relations with our neighbouring countries,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>She explained that Rwanda and Kenya are like sisters. It is a high time everyone feels at home especially local traders whom I assure we\u2019re yet to eradicate non-tariff barriers that have been a challenge to their business, \u201cAt the moment tough measures are being enhanced to punish those demanding bribes for instance.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The chairman of Kenyan community in the country, Boniface Mutua commended members for being cooperative particularly in taking part in some of the government\u2019s initiatives like the monthly communal cleaning (Umuganda).<\/p>\n<p>Mutua has embarked on a campaign encouraging Kenyan companies based in the country to offer contributions meant to support the vulnerable during the festive season.<\/p>\n<p>Next year, the association  \u2018All Kenyans in Rwanda\u2019 (AKR) together with similar associations from the region, will select a project meant to eradicate poverty in Rwanda, later the same will be replicated in poverty stricken areas in the region.   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo far we have talked to some officials from East African member states and they have agreed to the cause. We should start working as a team to achieve big,\u201d he advised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The Kenyan High Commissioner Rose Makena Muchiri has called for more cooperation between her country and Rwanda, a move meant to spur the region\u2019s integration process.}} Addressing Kenyans and friends at the 48th Independence Day (Jamhuri) celebrations held at her residence, Muchiri commended the collaboration especially those that are development-focused. \u201cOn such a day we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[158],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-1331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-b_igi_adm1n"],"bylines":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":1}],"contributors":[{"id":158,"name":"b_igi_adm1n","slug":"b_igi_adm1n","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":1}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=1331"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=1331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}