{"id":35227,"date":"2017-06-19T13:49:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T13:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-arrives-in-zambia-to-outstanding\/"},"modified":"2017-06-20T14:49:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-20T14:49:41","slug":"president-kagame-arrives-in-zambia-to-outstanding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-arrives-in-zambia-to-outstanding\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame arrives in Zambia to outstanding homage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has today arrived in Lusaka, Zambia\u2019s capital city in a two day state visit. As part of welcoming him, the country has erected Kagame\u2019s images on billboards by roadsides with welcoming messages \u2018Mr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu President of the Republic of Zambia welcomes Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda.\u2019 } <\/p>\n<p>President Kagame is in Zambia at the invitation of his Zambian counterpart President Edgar Lungu.<\/p>\n<p>According to Zambia media reports, Foreign Affairs Minister Harry Kalaba said that the two leaders are expected to hold talks on Monday to share best practices and strengthen bilateral ties between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Kalaba said the visiting President of Rwanda is also expected to visit and lay wreaths at the Presidential burial place at the Embassy Park where three late Zambian Presidents are buried.<\/p>\n<p>The minister said President Kagame will be taken to Kafue District to tour Kafue Steel Company which is owned by Universal Mining and Chemicals Industries Limited under Trade Kings Group.<\/p>\n<p>President Paul Kagame last visited Zambia in May 2016 when he attended the 51st annual meeting of African Development Bank governors and the 42nd meeting of Africa Development Fund in Lusaka capital. Rwanda has good relations with Zambia and RwandAir opened three flights to Lusaka per week in March 2015. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20894 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dcmr2swwsaavtvo-dbe8e.jpg\" alt=\"Zambia has erected Kagame\u2019s images on billboards by roadsides with welcoming messages.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20893 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dcrjymaxcaeb1ra-68652.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20896 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/3-1260-97161.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20897 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-1621-b0b8a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20898 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2-1504-2a074.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20899 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/5-839-90597.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20900 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/6-712-c8363.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20901 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/7-626-16590.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20902 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/9-488-ca491.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20903 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/12-372-77367.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20904 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/17-199-30479.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20905 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/22-155-18409.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20906 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/15-265-d50fa.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20907 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/21-128-1ec66.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20908 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/28-63-f0011.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-20909 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/20-143-b2839.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has today arrived in Lusaka, Zambia\u2019s capital city in a two day state visit. As part of welcoming him, the country has erected Kagame\u2019s images on billboards by roadsides with welcoming messages \u2018Mr. Edgar Chagwa Lungu President of the Republic of Zambia welcomes Paul Kagame, President of the Republic of Rwanda.\u2019 } [&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-35227","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\/35227","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=35227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35227"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=35227"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=35227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}