{"id":30476,"date":"2016-11-21T02:56:00","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T02:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-recognizes-ndayisenga-tour-du\/"},"modified":"2017-02-28T19:21:14","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T19:21:14","slug":"president-kagame-recognizes-ndayisenga-tour-du","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-recognizes-ndayisenga-tour-du\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame recognizes Ndayisenga, Tour Du Rwanda 2016 winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has lauded Ndayisenga Valens for winning the  \u2018Tour du Rwanda 2016\u2019 and commended all Rwandans that participated in the tournament which  brought together  countries from different  corners of the world and ended up with Rwanda\u2019s victory. }<\/p>\n<p>President Kagame has applauded the winner via his twitter account saying \u201cCongratulations Valens Ndayisenga, winner of a thrilling Tour du Rwanda 2016. Thanks to all riders &#038; Rwandans who came out to watch &#038; cheer!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As Tour du Rwanda was held for the 8th time, Ndayisenga Valens wins the tournament for the second time following his 2014 victory. <\/p>\n<p>Ndayisenga Valens plays in Dimension Data team of South Africa. He first won Kigali-Karongi in Tour du Rwanda 2016 on 15th November  and won the sixth competition of Tour du Rwanda  Tour du Rwanda of Musanze-Kigali all of which pushed him to make a big difference in the competition. <\/p>\n<p>The previous Tour du Rwanda in 2015 was won by Jean Bosco Nsengimana.<br \/>\nThis year\u2019s victory earned Ndayisenga Valens USD 1900. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-16516 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ndayisenga_valens_wongeye_kwegukana_tour_du_rwanda_ya_kabiri_aha_yashyikirazaga_perezida_kagame_umwenda_w_umuhondo_yegukanye_muri_2014.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-16515 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/muri_2014_perezida_kagame_yakira_abakinnyi_ndayisenga_valens_na_bagenzi_be_bari_begukanye_tour_du_rwanda.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-16514 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/30990310942_da312e8dfd_z.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has lauded Ndayisenga Valens for winning the \u2018Tour du Rwanda 2016\u2019 and commended all Rwandans that participated in the tournament which brought together countries from different corners of the world and ended up with Rwanda\u2019s victory. } President Kagame has applauded the winner via his twitter account saying \u201cCongratulations Valens Ndayisenga, winner [&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":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-30476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30476","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=30476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30476"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=30476"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=30476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}