{"id":32783,"date":"2017-02-24T09:25:59","date_gmt":"2017-02-24T09:25:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/mushikiwabo-appeals-on-child-soldiers\/"},"modified":"2017-02-27T12:16:55","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T12:16:55","slug":"mushikiwabo-appeals-on-child-soldiers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/mushikiwabo-appeals-on-child-soldiers\/","title":{"rendered":"Mushikiwabo appeals on child soldiers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{The  Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo, has requested African leaders to stand against the enrollment of children in military outfits but instead support them into  school.}<\/p>\n<p>He made the call yesterday as she chaired the 661th council of ministers comprising the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) that discussed  easing free movements, services, goods and elimination of  children enrolment into the military. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have to fight the practice. Our children must be at school  battlefields,\u201d appealed Mushikiwabo. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHeads of states and governments encouraged African countries to approve AU passport with the aim of promoting integration. Some countries including mine have already opened borders for all Africans,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Mushikiwabo explained that African continent presents best agreements among leaders on easing free movements but  noted that there are challenges which have to be addressed to execute the program.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need African experts in security matters to attain  free movements of people and goods in Africa,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda is chairing the AUPSC in February 2017 after replacing Sierra Leone represented by Amb. Hope G. Tumukunde. <\/p>\n<p>The member states are  Rwanda, Algeria, Botswana, Burundi, Chad, Congo, Egypt, Kenya, Niger, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Togo, Uganda and Zambia.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-18436 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mushikiwabo-24-454eb.jpg\" alt=\"The  Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo, has requested African leaders to stand against the enrollment of children in military outfits but instead support them into school.} He made the call yesterday as she chaired the 661th council of ministers comprising the African Union Peace and Security Council (AUPSC) that discussed easing free movements, services, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-32783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/32783","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32783\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32783"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=32783"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=32783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}