{"id":37476,"date":"2018-05-14T14:22:15","date_gmt":"2018-05-14T14:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-celebrates-motherhood-praises\/"},"modified":"2018-05-16T09:49:35","modified_gmt":"2018-05-16T09:49:35","slug":"president-kagame-celebrates-motherhood-praises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-celebrates-motherhood-praises\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame celebrates Motherhood, praises First Lady"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cA very Happy Mother\u2019s Day to all mothers of Rwanda, Africa, and the World! To the one special mother in our home, lives and our hearts of 4 children &#8211; Jeannette- Thank you forever, God bless..!!,\u201d he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Following his tweet, First Lady of Rwanda, Jeannette Kagame, also celebrated Mother\u2019s Day with a Twitter tribute for her family, being her \u2018raison d&#8217;\u00eatre\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Grateful for @PaulKagame, Ivan, Ange, Ian and Brian for being my \u2018raison d&#8217;\u00eatre\u2019.\u201d she tweeted <\/p>\n<p>Mother&#8217;s Day is a celebration honoring the mother of the family, as well as motherhood, maternal bonds, and the influence of mothers in society. It is celebrated on various days in many parts of the world, most commonly in the months of March or May. It complements similar celebrations honoring family members, such as Father&#8217;s Day, Siblings Day, and Grandparents Day.<\/p>\n<p>In 1914, American President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation declaring the first national Mother&#8217;s Day<\/p>\n<p>The world has made great strides in empowering women and girls in recent decades, and Rwanda has played its part. Good politics, legal reform, and policy frameworks have helped speed up this progress. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25249 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/capture-20180514-092527-31c25.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25250 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/39131662992_78555c1b0b_b-b64ba.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame with First Lady, Ms Jeanette Kagame.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Kagame yesterday took to Twitter to celebrate motherhood, honoring and praising Rwanda&#8217;s First Lady, Ms Jeanette Kagame.<\/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":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37476","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\/37476","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=37476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37476\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37476"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37476"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}