{"id":37375,"date":"2018-04-26T10:18:44","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T10:18:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/dignitaries-arrive-in-kigali-for-mo-ibrahim\/"},"modified":"2018-04-29T15:23:07","modified_gmt":"2018-04-29T15:23:07","slug":"dignitaries-arrive-in-kigali-for-mo-ibrahim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/dignitaries-arrive-in-kigali-for-mo-ibrahim\/","title":{"rendered":"Dignitaries arrive in Kigali for Mo Ibrahim Governance Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ouattara was received by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and East African Community, Louise Mushikiwabo among other officials.<\/p>\n<p>The Ibrahim Governance Weekend is the flagship event of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation held every year in a different African country.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s event will start from April 27th and run until April 29th and will bring together different dignitaries from the continent.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day event convenes prominent African political and business leaders, representatives from civil society, multilateral and regional institutions as well as Africa\u2019s major international partners to debate issues of critical importance to Africa.<\/p>\n<p>After the awarding ceremony, the participants will hold a high-level discussion forum which will focus on public service in Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The forum will conclude with a public concert highlighting some of the best artistes on the continent.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24955 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2-1921-84393.jpg\" alt=\"President Alassane Ouattaraa arrived in Kigali yesterday\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24957 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-2028-45e6d.jpg\" alt=\"Ivory Coast President, Alassane Ouattara has yesterday arrived in Kigali for Mo Ibrahim Governance Weekend\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24956 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/5-1114-2c3ea.jpg\" alt=\"Ivory Coast President, Alassane Ouattara was welcomed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and East African Community Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ivory Coast President, Alassane Ouattara yesterday arrived in Kigali to participate in Mo Ibrahim Governance Weekend, an event where former Liberia\u2019s President, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf  will receive the 2017 Ibrahim Award.<\/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-37375","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\/37375","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=37375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37375\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37375"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37375"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}