{"id":37642,"date":"2018-06-05T12:48:37","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T12:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/european-union-supports-reforms-of-african-union\/"},"modified":"2018-06-06T16:15:42","modified_gmt":"2018-06-06T16:15:42","slug":"european-union-supports-reforms-of-african-union","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/european-union-supports-reforms-of-african-union\/","title":{"rendered":"European Union supports reforms of African Union\u2014EU Commissioner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kagame and his delegation are in Belgium for the \u2018European Development Days 2018\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>After meeting President Kagame yesterday, Mimica wrote on his twitter that a strong AUEU partnership needs strong partners.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDelighted to welcome to Brussels President Paul Kagame. The EU fully supports the reform of the African Union that he is piloting. A strong AUEU partnership needs strong partners,\u201d reads his tweet.<\/p>\n<p>Kagame along with different cabinet ministers including the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and East African Community Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo; State Minister in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and East African Community Affairs, Amb. Olivier Nduhungirehe; Finance and Economic Planning Minister, Dr. Uzziel Ndagijimana among others are in Belgium for the European Development Days starting today.<\/p>\n<p>Kagame is also expected to speak at the European Development Days which will run under the theme \u2018Women and Girls at the Forefront of Sustainable Development: protect, empower, invest\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Among other speakers include, Burkina Faso President, Roch Marc Christian Kabor\u00e9; Liberian President, George Manneh Weah and the Chief Executive Officer of the World Bank, Kristalina Georgieva among others.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25662 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/president_kagame_meets_with_jean-claude_juncker_president_of_the_european_commission-07a12.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame and the European Union (EU) Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25661 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/president_kagame_meets_with_kristalina_georgieva_ceo_of_the_world_bank_2-8301a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame who is in Brussels, Belgium yesterday was received by the European Union (EU) Commissioner for International Cooperation and Development, Neven Mimica who said that the EU supports the African Union reforms that Kagame is behind.<\/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-37642","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\/37642","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=37642"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37642\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37642"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37642"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}