{"id":32160,"date":"2017-01-28T06:42:24","date_gmt":"2017-01-28T06:42:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-in-addis-ababa-for-28th-au\/"},"modified":"2017-01-31T01:08:03","modified_gmt":"2017-01-31T01:08:03","slug":"president-kagame-in-addis-ababa-for-28th-au","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-in-addis-ababa-for-28th-au\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame in Addis Ababa for 28th AU Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame and First Lady, Jeannette Kagame have arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to attend the 28th African Union Summit.}<\/p>\n<p>Heads of states and governments will meet at the headquarters of African Union in Addis Ababa from 30th to 31st January 2017 in a meeting where they will elect the chairperson of AU Commission and commissioners, receive the report on AU reforms made by the committee chaired by President Paul Kagame.  <\/p>\n<p>Candidates vying for AU chairmanship include Pelonomi Venson-Moitoi from Botswana, Agapito Mba Mokuy from Equatoriale Guinea, Abdoulaye Bathily from Senegal, Moussa Faki Mahamat from Chad and Amina Mohamed from Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>Heads of states attending the summit will also consider Morocco\u2019s request to rejoin the AU it had withdrawn from 34 years ago. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17878 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ethiopia3-48162.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17877 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ethiopia2-204dc.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17879 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ethiopia4-67088.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17880 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ethiopia5-1afe0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17881 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ethiopia6-ea323.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17882 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ethiopia7-81839.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17883 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ethiopia-8-d23d3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-17884 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ethiopia9-ca658.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame and First Lady, Jeannette Kagame have arrived in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to attend the 28th African Union Summit.} Heads of states and governments will meet at the headquarters of African Union in Addis Ababa from 30th to 31st January 2017 in a meeting where they will elect the chairperson of AU Commission [&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-32160","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 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