{"id":37558,"date":"2018-05-26T09:16:26","date_gmt":"2018-05-26T09:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ethiopian-prime-minister-abiy-praises-kagame-on\/"},"modified":"2018-05-29T09:44:57","modified_gmt":"2018-05-29T09:44:57","slug":"ethiopian-prime-minister-abiy-praises-kagame-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ethiopian-prime-minister-abiy-praises-kagame-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy praises Kagame on great leadership"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Abiy was speaking yesterday in Ethiopia, in a State Banquet he hosted in the honour of President Kagame.<\/p>\n<p>He said that Kagame leads the continent in great, wise and miraculous ways.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Kagame is not only the President of Rwanda but he is also leading the continent in great, wise and miraculous ways of transforming the continent and economic integration, as well as realising the vision of our forefathers,\u201d he praised.<\/p>\n<p>Abiy promised Kagame to wave visas on people entering Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe President invited all Africans to travel to Rwanda without visas, we will follow you very soon,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>According to Abiy, Kagame is a great gift for the people of Rwanda and for the continent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Kagame is a freedom fighter, great gift for the people of Rwanda and for the continent. After fighting for freedom it is difficult to establish institutions, but when you go to Rwanda you can see how this leader has changed the country,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cI am grateful to have President Kagame here in Ethiopia, we will continue working together, we have many great visions to disrupt this continent,\u201d Abiy said.<\/p>\n<p>In the event, Heads of States exchanged gifts, where Abiy gave a cow to Kagame and Kagame gave a dance portrait to Abiy.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the three-day state visit, Kagame and Abiy held bilateral talks in Addis Ababa yesterday and toured Hawassa Industrial Park.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25475 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/deerk6gw0ae59h6.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Abiy praised Kagame for great leadership \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25476 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/deesfh-x4amngp9.jpg\" alt=\"Abiy gave a cow to Kagame\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25477 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/deewl_owkae5emf.jpg\" alt=\"Kagame gave a dance portrait to Abiy\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian Prime Minister, Dr. Abey Ahmed has praised President Paul Kagame and described him as a leader who leads the transformation of Africa towards the realization of forefathers\u2019 dreams. <\/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-37558","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\/37558","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=37558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37558"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37558"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}