{"id":23447,"date":"2016-02-23T02:20:13","date_gmt":"2016-02-23T02:20:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-museveni-election-reflects-trust-by\/"},"modified":"2016-02-24T02:16:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-24T02:16:16","slug":"kagame-museveni-election-reflects-trust-by","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-museveni-election-reflects-trust-by\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame: Museveni Election Reflects Trust by Ugandan People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwandan President Paul Kagame, 58, has joined his colleagues Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, Salva Kiir of South Sudan and Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin among others to congratulate President Museveni on winning the February 18 election in Uganda.}<\/p>\n<p>In a diplomatic note sent Sunday to Uganda\u2019s Foreign Affairs Ministry, Kagame said Museveni\u2019s victory in the February 18 presidential elections is \u201ccertainly a reflection of the trust the Ugandan people have in your ability to lead them forward in their quest for prosperity and socio-economic transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kagame and Museveni are close friends, having fought together in the NRA war between 1981-86.<\/p>\n<p>He would later travel for a military course at Fort Leavenworth in United States only to return to lead the RPF struggle against the regime of Juvenal Habyarimana following the death of Maj Gen Fred Rwigema.<\/p>\n<p>According to officials at Uganda\u2019s Foreign Affairs Ministry in Kampala, Kagame in his message told Museveni that Rwanda wishes him \u201csuccess in your term of office, and remains ready to strengthen the excellent ties existing between our two brotherly countries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Museveni defeated seven other presidential candidates with a 60 percent of the total vote count.<\/p>\n<p>The opposition have since protested the outcome of the election.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-10577 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/625129c060adaeb09ad32f0edf482133.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwandan President Paul Kagame, 58, has joined his colleagues Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya, Salva Kiir of South Sudan and Russia\u2019s Vladimir Putin among others to congratulate President Museveni on winning the February 18 election in Uganda.} In a diplomatic note sent Sunday to Uganda\u2019s Foreign Affairs Ministry, Kagame said Museveni\u2019s victory in the February 18 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[2567],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-23447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-chimpreports"],"bylines":[{"id":2567,"name":"Chimpreports","slug":"chimpreports","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":2567,"name":"Chimpreports","slug":"chimpreports","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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23447","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=23447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23447"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=23447"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=23447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}