{"id":36630,"date":"2017-12-28T16:25:20","date_gmt":"2017-12-28T16:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandan-muthoni-crowned-miss-africa-first-runner\/"},"modified":"2017-12-28T16:24:58","modified_gmt":"2017-12-28T16:24:58","slug":"rwandan-muthoni-crowned-miss-africa-first-runner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandan-muthoni-crowned-miss-africa-first-runner\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandan Muthoni crowned Miss Africa first runner-up"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ceremony took place on Wednesday midnight at Calabar International Conference Centre in Cross River State in Nigeria. The competition was attended by 25 girls from different countries.<\/p>\n

Miss Africa 2017, Gaseangwe took home $35,000 and a Ford Edge Sport Utility Vehicle as her star prize.<\/p>\n

First runner-up Muthoni pocketed $10,000 while South African Luyolo Mngonyama received $5,000 as the second runner-up.<\/p>\n

Muthoni had also emerged third runner-up at Miss Rwanda 2015.<\/p>\n

The theme of the event was \u2018Climate Change and Migration\u2019 which was chosen to create awareness on the need to protect the environment and caution African youth against illegal migration.<\/p>\n

The ceremony was entertained by different famous artists including Neza from Rwanda, Mafikizolo from South Africa, Vanessa Mdee from Tanzania, Tekno and Runtown from Nigeria.<\/p>\n

\"Muthoni<\/figure>\n
\"Botswana\u2019s<\/figure>\n
\"South<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Muthoni Fiona Naringwa who was representing Rwanda at Miss Africa beauty pageant 2017 has been crowned the first runner-up as Botswana\u2019s Gaseangwe Balop takes the crown.<\/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-36630","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\/36630","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=36630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36630"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36630"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}