{"id":37245,"date":"2018-04-06T19:53:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-06T19:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-receives-credentials-of-new-us-ambassador\/"},"modified":"2018-04-10T11:35:03","modified_gmt":"2018-04-10T11:35:03","slug":"kagame-receives-credentials-of-new-us-ambassador","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-receives-credentials-of-new-us-ambassador\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame receives credentials of new US Ambassador Vrooman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vrooman was appointed as envoy to Rwanda last October, replacing Erica Barks-Ruggles who had been in Kigali since December 2014.<\/p>\n<p>He was sworn-in as new US ambassador to Rwanda on March 26. During his swearing-in, Vrooman said that he will work towards the strengthening of bilateral relations between both countries with an agenda focusing on inclusive education and activities promoting women and girls.<\/p>\n<p>Vrooman has extensive diplomatic experience in the region. Prior to the new appointment, he served at the U.S. Embassy in Ethiopia, as deputy Chief of Mission from July 2014 to August 2016 and as Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires from September 2016 to July 2017.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24664 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/amba-19-956ea.jpg\" alt=\"Kagame and Peter Vrooman\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24663 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ambasaderi1-4cc0b.jpg\" alt=\"Peter Vrooman arriving at Village Urugwiro\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame has this Friday received the credentials of new Ambassador of the United States to Rwanda, Peter Vrooman in the ceremony that took place at the State House, Village Urugwiro.<\/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-37245","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\/37245","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=37245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37245\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37245"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37245"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}