{"id":28242,"date":"2016-09-01T06:28:27","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T06:28:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-benin-welcome-the-nomination-of-dr-kim-for\/"},"modified":"2016-09-03T04:12:54","modified_gmt":"2016-09-03T04:12:54","slug":"rwanda-benin-welcome-the-nomination-of-dr-kim-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-benin-welcome-the-nomination-of-dr-kim-for\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda, Benin welcome the nomination of Dr. Kim for 2nd term at the World Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda and Benin yesterday expressed support for the candidature of Dr. Jim Yong Kim as President of the World Bank Group for a second term, as President Patrice Talon of Benin met with President Paul Kagame during an official visit to Rwanda.}<\/p>\n<p>Both governments recognize the achievements of Dr. Kim during the last four years.<\/p>\n<p>The statement released by the government of Rwanda indicates that Dr. Kim has been supported for efforts to make the World Bank a partner of choice for African countries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Bank has provided significant development support in key sectors of priority to Africa including health, energy, infrastructure, social protection, urbanization, environment, agriculture and education,&#8221;reads part of the statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Dr Kim&#8217;s continued leadership of the World Bank will consolidate gains achieved in our countries and foster even greater collaboration to end poverty and improve livelihoods,&#8221;adds the statement.<\/p>\n<p>Under Dr. Kim&#8217;s leadership, the Bank has shown unwavering commitment to stabilization and progress of the Great Lakes Region through regional projects bringing together governments and the private sector. <\/p>\n<p>The Bank also took the lead in the response to the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, through a multinational, multifaceted and localized approach.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-14709 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dr.-jim-yong-kim.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Jim Yong Kim\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda and Benin yesterday expressed support for the candidature of Dr. Jim Yong Kim as President of the World Bank Group for a second term, as President Patrice Talon of Benin met with President Paul Kagame during an official visit to Rwanda.} Both governments recognize the achievements of Dr. Kim during the last four years. [&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-28242","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\/28242","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=28242"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28242\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28242"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28242"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28242"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=28242"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=28242"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}