{"id":32551,"date":"2017-02-14T08:10:32","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T08:10:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kigali-to-get-new-mayor\/"},"modified":"2017-02-15T09:15:54","modified_gmt":"2017-02-15T09:15:54","slug":"kigali-to-get-new-mayor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kigali-to-get-new-mayor\/","title":{"rendered":"Kigali to get new mayor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The National Electoral Commission (NEC) has announced that elections to replace the outgoing Kigali city mayor, Mukaruliza Monique will take place on Friday 17th February 2017.}<\/p>\n<p>Mukaruliza was appointed Rwanda\u2019s ambassador to Zambia on 3rd February 2017 by the cabinet meeting chaired by President Paul Kagame after leading Kigali city for 341 days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cElections to replace the mayor of Kigali City are due on 17th February 2017 at Rwanda Revenue Authority room at 10:00 hours in Kimihurura,\u201d said NEC via twitter account. <\/p>\n<p>Mukaruliza once served as the minister for East African Affairs and the coordinator of Rwanda of Northern Corridor Projects. <\/p>\n<p>She was elected Kigali City mayor on 29th February 2016 with 182 votes out of 200 voters. She beat her rival Regine Mukeshimana who got only eight votes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18206 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/arton76787-97a70.jpg\" alt=\"Kigali city headquarters\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The National Electoral Commission (NEC) has announced that elections to replace the outgoing Kigali city mayor, Mukaruliza Monique will take place on Friday 17th February 2017.} Mukaruliza was appointed Rwanda\u2019s ambassador to Zambia on 3rd February 2017 by the cabinet meeting chaired by President Paul Kagame after leading Kigali city for 341 days. \u201cElections to [&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-32551","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\/32551","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=32551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32551"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32551"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}