{"id":29481,"date":"2016-10-17T01:50:51","date_gmt":"2016-10-17T01:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-s-last-king-kigeli-v-dies-in-the-us-at-age\/"},"modified":"2017-02-28T18:41:19","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T18:41:19","slug":"rwanda-s-last-king-kigeli-v-dies-in-the-us-at-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-s-last-king-kigeli-v-dies-in-the-us-at-age\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda&#8217;s last king, Kigeli V, dies in the US at age 80"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The last king of Rwanda, Kigeli V, died early Sunday, his official website said. He was 80.<br \/>\n}<br \/>\nBorn Jean-Baptiste Ndahindurwa in Kamembe, the monarch went into exile in 1960 after clashing with the Belgian colonial power.<\/p>\n<p>In 1961, the monarchy was abolished.<\/p>\n<p>Kigeli V lived in exile in several African countries before settling in the suburbs of Washington, DC, in 1992.<\/p>\n<p>While in the United States, he led the King Kigeli V Foundation to aid Rwandan refugees.<\/p>\n<p>Details of his death were not immediately known.<\/p>\n<p>A 2013 profile of the ex-monarch in the Washingtonian magazine, found him living in subsidised housing, on food stamps and donations, in Oakton, Virginia, happy to hand out chocolates to neighbours\u2019 children.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They call me the King of Africa,&#8221; Kigeli said of the neighbours, in that report.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ah, it&#8217;s good.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For decades he spoke of returning to his east African homeland as monarch.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15773 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kigeli_ndahindurwa.jpg\" alt=\"King Kigeli V in the middle \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The last king of Rwanda, Kigeli V, died early Sunday, his official website said. He was 80. } Born Jean-Baptiste Ndahindurwa in Kamembe, the monarch went into exile in 1960 after clashing with the Belgian colonial power. In 1961, the monarchy was abolished. Kigeli V lived in exile in several African countries before settling in [&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":[228],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-29481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-afp"],"bylines":[{"id":228,"name":"AFP","slug":"afp","description":"Agence France-Presse is an international news agency headquartered in Paris. It is the oldest news agency in the world and one of the largest. ","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":71}],"contributors":[{"id":228,"name":"AFP","slug":"afp","description":"Agence France-Presse is an international news agency headquartered in Paris. It is the oldest news agency in the world and one of the largest. ","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":71}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29481","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=29481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29481"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29481"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}