{"id":27010,"date":"2016-07-18T07:22:35","date_gmt":"2016-07-18T07:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/african-first-ladies-call-for-advancement-of\/"},"modified":"2016-07-18T07:30:15","modified_gmt":"2016-07-18T07:30:15","slug":"african-first-ladies-call-for-advancement-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/african-first-ladies-call-for-advancement-of\/","title":{"rendered":"African first ladies call for advancement of girls\u2019 education"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{First ladies from around Africa attending the 27th African Union Summit in Kigali have advised governments to strengthen efforts in promoting education of the girl child.}<\/p>\n<p>The issue was raised yesterday as members of the Organization of African First Ladies against HIV\/AIDS, in collaboration with Plan International and Malala Fund came together to watch a documentary film dubbed \u2018He Named Me Malala\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The event was preceded by the speech of Kenya\u2019s first lady, Margaret Kenyatta.<\/p>\n<p>Madam Jeannette Kagame was among attendees of the event including first ladies of Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Mali, Mozambique, Niger and Sierra Leone.<\/p>\n<p>The film depicted great achievements of Malala; the youngest Noble Prize laureate at the age of 16 for her support to raising the voice of the girl child in accessing education. <\/p>\n<p>Watching the film was followed by discussions on promoting girls\u2019 education and rights. <\/p>\n<p>During the discussions, the head of Plan International Rwanda branch , Marie Gladys Archange; the spokesperson of Malala Fund, Chikondi Mpokosa; the representative of Plan International in African Union , Chikezie Anyanwu and Kayitesi Vestine who spoke on behalf of girls in Rwanda shared ideas of what should be done for enhancing girls\u2019 academic progress.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-13617 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/04-24.jpg\" alt=\"Madam Jeannette Kagame was among attendees of the event including first ladies of Burkina Faso, Central African Republic, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Mali, Mozambique, Niger and Sierra Leone.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{First ladies from around Africa attending the 27th African Union Summit in Kigali have advised governments to strengthen efforts in promoting education of the girl child.} The issue was raised yesterday as members of the Organization of African First Ladies against HIV\/AIDS, in collaboration with Plan International and Malala Fund came together to watch a [&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-27010","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\/27010","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=27010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27010"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=27010"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=27010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}