{"id":37344,"date":"2018-04-20T20:42:28","date_gmt":"2018-04-20T20:42:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/bingo-rwanda-to-host-2020-chogm\/"},"modified":"2018-04-25T15:57:24","modified_gmt":"2018-04-25T15:57:24","slug":"bingo-rwanda-to-host-2020-chogm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/bingo-rwanda-to-host-2020-chogm\/","title":{"rendered":"Bingo: Rwanda to host 2020 CHOGM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame attended the 2018 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in London.<\/p>\n<p>A Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting Communiqu\u00e9 says that Heads of States welcomed and accepted Rwanda\u2019s offer to host the next meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Heads of state and Government welcomed and accepted the offer of the President of Rwanda to host the next meeting in 2020. They also welcomed the offer of Samoa to host the 2022 CHOGM,\u201d reads the communiqu\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>The Rwanda gathering will be the 26th CHOGM.  <\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, the UK news agency, BBC, has said that Rwanda beat Fiji.<\/p>\n<p>{{Rwanda welcomes the meeting}}<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the decision, the State Minister in in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and East African Community, Amb. Olivier Nduhungirehe said that Rwanda is humbled to host the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRwanda is humbled by the confidence and trust that Commonwealth Heads of State and Government have placed in us to host the 2020 CHOGM, nine years after our admission in this Commonwealth,\u201d he told IGIHE.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda was admitted as a member of Commonwealth in 2009 in the meeting that was held in Trinidad and Tobago. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a honour for Rwanda, especially as we are the youngest member of this community. This shows the trust in our ability to host this summit. But it is also a testimony of our quick integration in the Commonwealth. Moreover, this can be an opportunity for Rwandans to better know this organisation, its shared values and activities,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Based on different summits like the recent AU extraordinary summit Rwanda hosted, Nduhungirehe is optimistic that the CHOGM will be successfully hosted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAre you doubting it? Didn\u2019t we just successfully host an extraordinary AU Summit of 55 member states? What would be different in hosting a CHOGM of 53 member states?\u201d he mused. <\/p>\n<p>CHOGM is a biennial meeting of heads of government from all Commonwealth nations.<\/p>\n<p>Every two years, the meeting is held in a different member state chaired by nation\u2019s respective Prime Minister or President who becomes the Commonwealth Chair-in-Office until the next meeting.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24875 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/360762-dcae6.jpg\" alt=\"Heads of Governments at CHOGM 2018 in London\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda has been chosen to host the 2020 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. The decision was announced on Friday in London, United Kingdom at the closure of the 2018 Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting.<\/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":[197],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37344","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\/37344","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=37344"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37344\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37344"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37344"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37344"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37344"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37344"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}