{"id":36347,"date":"2017-11-23T17:28:51","date_gmt":"2017-11-23T17:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/liberian-president-prays-for-a-rwanda-like\/"},"modified":"2017-11-23T17:13:34","modified_gmt":"2017-11-23T17:13:34","slug":"liberian-president-prays-for-a-rwanda-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/liberian-president-prays-for-a-rwanda-like\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberian President prays for a Rwanda-like parliament"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sirleaf was speaking in a conversation with Liberia Broadcasting System (LBS) Director General, Ledgerhood Rennie.<\/p>\n<p>Sirleaf whose mandate is about to end said she hopes to retire  in the interest of Liberia and Africa and be active in private life. .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI need to retire gracefully,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>Addressing a wide range of issues in Liberia, Sirleaf expressed satisfaction in Liberian women\u2019s resolve not to be backbenchers anymore in decision making and working for the common good of Liberia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter my service as  a president, it may seem a far distant call for another woman but one thing I am sure of is that there are women in the queue already who are demonstrating their preparedness to serve in many areas of national leadership,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI pray that as Rwanda has the highest number of women representation at the parliament, one day we will get there. I have the hope and confidence in the women of Africa to rise above all odds and support their male counterparts in building countries on our continent,\u201d she said adding that Rwanda is the only African country in the world that has sixty percent female lawmakers in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>In Rwanda, women occupy 64% seats in parliament.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-22837 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/sirleaf.jpg\" alt=\"Liberian President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberian President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf has said that she prays that her country will have highest number of women representation in parliament as in Rwanda.<\/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":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36347","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\/36347","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=36347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36347"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36347"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}