{"id":31688,"date":"2017-01-09T08:20:38","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T08:20:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/king-kigeli-body-flown-home-to-be-interred-in\/"},"modified":"2017-01-11T06:19:42","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T06:19:42","slug":"king-kigeli-body-flown-home-to-be-interred-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/king-kigeli-body-flown-home-to-be-interred-in\/","title":{"rendered":"King Kigeli body flown home, to be interred in Nyanza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The body of King Kigeli V Ndahindurwa has arrived in Rwanda,  four days after American judge in Virginia of the USA  ruled his body  be returned and  interred  in Mwima of Nyanza where he  was crowned King and last funerary customs will be performed. }  <\/p>\n<p>It has been flown in aboard Ethiopian Airlines to Kigali International Airport where it was received by the Minister of Sports and Culture and the coordinator of National Academy of Language and Culture ,Dr. Vuningoma James at  around 13:40 hours and left the airport at 14 hours.  <\/p>\n<p>Getting Kigeli\u2019s body to Kigali has been done in secrecy with few employees at Kigali International Airport being in the loop.  <\/p>\n<p>The King\u2019s casket has been taken to Mwima in Nyanza. <\/p>\n<p>Dr James Vuningoma has said that the government of Rwanda has been waiting for consensus of King Kigeli\u2019s family adding that \u2018it is our honour as Rwandans to have the body of the king returned to Rwanda.\u2019   <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17518 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/_dsc6971.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17520 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/03-69.jpg\" alt=\"Relatives of King Kigeli V arrived around 13:40 hours to receive the body. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17519 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/02-75.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The body of King Kigeli V Ndahindurwa has arrived in Rwanda, four days after American judge in Virginia of the USA ruled his body be returned and interred in Mwima of Nyanza where he was crowned King and last funerary customs will be performed. } It has been flown in aboard Ethiopian Airlines to Kigali [&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-31688","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\/31688","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=31688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31688"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=31688"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=31688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}