{"id":37203,"date":"2018-03-29T09:19:21","date_gmt":"2018-03-29T09:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-congratulates-ethiopia-s-new-ruling-party\/"},"modified":"2018-03-31T20:28:18","modified_gmt":"2018-03-31T20:28:18","slug":"kagame-congratulates-ethiopia-s-new-ruling-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-congratulates-ethiopia-s-new-ruling-party\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame congratulates Ethiopia\u2019s new ruling party leader Dr. Ahmed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ruling coalition, Ethiopian People\u2019s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) on Tuesday elected Dr. Ahmed as a leader from the country\u2019s largest ethnic group the Oromo. Being party leader paves the way for him to become Prime Minister once approved by the parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMade a tel call with Dr. Abiy Ahmed of Ethiopia to congratulate him and through him entire EPRDF as well as people of Ethiopia for selecting him as able compromise PM yet to be confirmed by parliament soon!!,\u201d Kagame said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Kagame congratulated  Abiy on behalf of AU. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs chairman of the AU, on behalf of other African leaders wanted to express our solidarity with the Ethiopian people and their leaders as they continue to find from within and among themselves solutions to the recent political problems they faced!,\u201d the tweet reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLooking very much forward to having Ethiopia continue to play its historical central role effectively and soon on our Continent!!\u201d Kagame said. <\/p>\n<p>Once approved, Dr. Ahmed will take over replacing former Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn who resigned last month. Desalegn said that his resignation was vital in the bid to carry out reforms that would lead to sustainable peace and democracy.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24599 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/maxresdefault-99-34474.jpg\" alt=\"Ethiopian People\u2019s Revolutionary Democratic Front (EPRDF) on Tuesday elected Dr. Ahmed as their leader \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame, also African Union (AU) Chairperson has made a telephone call to congratulate the newly elected Ethiopia\u2019s ruling party leader, Dr. Abiy Ahmed<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/37203","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37203"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37203"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}