{"id":26558,"date":"2016-07-02T08:36:26","date_gmt":"2016-07-02T08:36:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-receives-honorary-doctorate-of\/"},"modified":"2016-07-05T07:01:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-05T07:01:47","slug":"president-kagame-receives-honorary-doctorate-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-receives-honorary-doctorate-of\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame receives Honorary Doctorate of Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has been conferred an honorary doctor of laws by the Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia where he and first lady, Jeannette Kagame, attended the graduation ceremony.}<\/p>\n<p>He becomes the first sitting president to receive the honorary doctor of laws from University of Bahir.<\/p>\n<p>President Kagame has been received by his counterpart Ethiopian president, Mulatu Teshome with the foreign minister Tedros Adhanom.<\/p>\n<p>The honorary degree has been conferred to Kagame as recognition of his role in stopping 1994 genocide, championing the empowerment of women and ensuring sustainable development for all Rwandans.<\/p>\n<p>President Tahoma said that it is of great value to receive President Kagame at the graduation ceremony of Bahir Dar University and described it as a symbol of good bilateral cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>Bahir Dar University is comprised of two merged higher learning institutions.<br \/>\nRwanda and Ethiopia have a good cooperation especially in business sector where both countries signed trade improvement agreements in 2013.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-13228 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bashir-4.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame has been conferred an honorary doctor of laws by the Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia where he and first lady, Jeannette Kagame, attended the graduation ceremony.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-13229 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/yakirwa.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has been conferred an honorary doctor of laws by the Bahir Dar University in Ethiopia where he and first lady, Jeannette Kagame, attended the graduation ceremony.} He becomes the first sitting president to receive the honorary doctor of laws from University of Bahir. President Kagame has been received by his counterpart Ethiopian [&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":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-26558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26558","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=26558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26558"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=26558"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=26558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}