{"id":1393,"date":"2011-12-20T10:57:01","date_gmt":"2011-12-20T10:57:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/usa-amb-kimonyo-meets-diaspora-in-michigan\/"},"modified":"2011-12-20T10:56:36","modified_gmt":"2011-12-20T10:56:36","slug":"usa-amb-kimonyo-meets-diaspora-in-michigan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/usa-amb-kimonyo-meets-diaspora-in-michigan\/","title":{"rendered":"USA: Amb.Kimonyo Meets Diaspora In Michigan,Indiana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Rwanda\u2019s living in USA\u2019s Indiana and Michigan states say they are impressed by some of the services provided by various government agencies.}}<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-1051 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/indian_3-40050.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The Rwanda embassy in US was highlighted as exemplary especially in the issuing of legal documents like passports and passing information about Rwanda\u2019s progress especially on how diaspora members can invest back in Rwanda. <\/p>\n<p>The remarks were made during a recent meeting involving diaspora and Ambassador James Kimonyo who advised them to tap into existing opportunities in Rwanda mostly in trade.<\/p>\n<p>David Gasirabo and Edna Mbangukira hailed Amb. Kimonyo\u2019s visit saying that it proved the government\u2019s commitment to include the Diaspora in decision making and development of Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Alice Cyusa from Indiana state who was also among the organizers thanked the governments initiative of visiting the Diaspora, she further  hailed a similar visit by president Paul Kagame to Rwandans in Canada.<\/p>\n<p>Appolinnaire Bamugire who resides close to Grand Rapids hotel where the meeting took place noted that the embassy helped her to process documents quickly when she was requested by a Gacaca court in Rwanda to come and answer allegations of involvement in crimes commited during the Tutsi genocide.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the end I was confirmed not guilty because I arrived on time to defend myself.\u201d <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-1050 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/indian_4-46f56.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Rwanda\u2019s living in USA\u2019s Indiana and Michigan states say they are impressed by some of the services provided by various government agencies.}} The Rwanda embassy in US was highlighted as exemplary especially in the issuing of legal documents like passports and passing information about Rwanda\u2019s progress especially on how diaspora members can invest back in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[75],"byline":[158],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-1393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diaspora","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\/1393","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=1393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=1393"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=1393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}