{"id":36904,"date":"2018-02-01T08:43:47","date_gmt":"2018-02-01T08:43:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-appreciates-double-trust-over-au\/"},"modified":"2018-02-05T10:24:30","modified_gmt":"2018-02-05T10:24:30","slug":"kagame-appreciates-double-trust-over-au","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-appreciates-double-trust-over-au\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame appreciates double trust over AU chairmanship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kagame assumed the office on Sunday in the ceremony that took place in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia in line with the 30th AU Summit.<\/p>\n<p>Through his twitter account, Kagame thanked people who congratulated him and promised them on better services in the Union.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo the many leaders and citizens of our continent who sent congratulatory messages but above all gave me your trust to lead our African Union (AU), I thank you immensely and I do not take this for granted. I will give it all I can to serve you the way it should be!!\u201d reads his tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Kagame reminded them that it is double trust upon him following the reform of the union he leads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn fact it is &#8216;double trust&#8217; &#8211; at first you(leaders) have asked me to lead the reform process and happy to say we have made good progress together and we continue to do so!\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kagame assumed the AU chairmanship on Sunday replacing Guinea President Alpha Conde.<\/p>\n<p>In his acceptance speech, Kagame said that Africa has assets and strengths to build on, starting with African Union and its tangible commitment to unity.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cUnity must be our starting point as we work to re-define Africa\u2019s plans and ambitions. These changes need to happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s no country on our continent that does not want to be part of a more assertive and visible Africa. The programmes, policies and priorities of the AU contain the right tools for the job,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23906 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/aaa1-f7471-9f701.jpg\" alt=\"Kagame assumed the AU chairmanship on Sunday replacing Guinea President Alpha Conde.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame has expressed appreciation to leaders and citizens of Africa who sent him congratulatory messages as he was assuming the chairmanship of African Union (AU) last week.<\/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],"byline":[197],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","byline-john-mbaraga"],"bylines":[{"id":197,"name":"John Mbaraga","slug":"john-mbaraga","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":19}],"contributors":[{"id":197,"name":"John Mbaraga","slug":"john-mbaraga","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":19}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36904","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=36904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36904"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36904"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}