{"id":17988,"date":"2014-12-24T00:14:29","date_gmt":"2014-12-24T00:14:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/us-envoy-bids-farewell-to-president-kagame\/"},"modified":"2018-11-15T11:55:39","modified_gmt":"2018-11-15T11:55:39","slug":"us-envoy-bids-farewell-to-president-kagame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/us-envoy-bids-farewell-to-president-kagame\/","title":{"rendered":"US envoy bids farewell to President Kagame"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-7608 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/15466628683_f5e20e4984_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The outgoing US Ambassador to Rwanda, Donald Koran, yesterday bade farewell to President Paul Kagame  following the end of his three-year tour of duty.<\/p>\n<p>They discussed relations between both countries.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking after the meeting at Village Urugwiro, Koran said he was happy to have accomplished his tour of duty and that Rwanda and US continue to enjoy cordial relations.<\/p>\n<p>Amb. Koran is a career member of the US Senior Foreign Service who has previously served as Deputy Chief of Mission in Rwanda from 1999 to 2001 and held other positions in US Missions (Cuba, Venezuela, Togo, Madagascar and Niger).<\/p>\n<p>He also served in the State Department\u2019s Bureaus of African Affairs, International Organization Affairs and Intelligence and Research.<\/p>\n<p>His replacement, Ms. Erica Barks-Ruggles is tentatively set to be sworn in as Ambassador to the Republic of Rwanda in January 2015<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-7609 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/15466629133_3909fc1061_b.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The outgoing US Ambassador to Rwanda, Donald Koran, yesterday bade farewell to President Paul Kagame following the end of his three-year tour of duty. They discussed relations between both countries. Speaking after the meeting at Village Urugwiro, Koran said he was happy to have accomplished his tour of duty and that Rwanda and US continue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000055591,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-17988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","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":null}],"featured_image":{"id":2000055591,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17988.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17988.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17988.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17988.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17988.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton17988.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17988","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000055591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17988"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=17988"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=17988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}