{"id":37804,"date":"2018-07-03T11:04:15","date_gmt":"2018-07-03T11:04:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/african-heads-of-states-support-mushikiwabo-s-oif\/"},"modified":"2018-07-05T16:51:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-05T16:51:36","slug":"african-heads-of-states-support-mushikiwabo-s-oif","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/african-heads-of-states-support-mushikiwabo-s-oif\/","title":{"rendered":"African Heads of States support Mushikiwabo\u2019s OIF candidacy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>OIF commonly known as La Francophonie is an organisation of French Speaking Countries.<\/p>\n<p>Mushikiwabo\u2019s candidacy was double endorsed at the 31st African Union Head of States and Government Summit that was concluded yesterday in Nouakchott, Mauritania.<\/p>\n<p>Through her twitter account, Mushikiwabo thanked the African leaders for support.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA great feeling of gratitude towards the leaders of the African continent who have shown me their support over my candidacy for the post of Secretary General of la Francophonie. I was very touched!\u201d reads Mushikiwabo\u2019s twitter.<\/p>\n<p>On June 30th, the Executive Council of the African Union also approved Mushikiwabo\u2019s candidacy. The Executive Council of the African Union is made up of ministers designated by the governments of member countries.<\/p>\n<p>OIF Secretary General elections are scheduled to take place on October 11th and 12th in the organisation\u2019s summit that will take place in Everan, Romania.<\/p>\n<p>Mushikiwabo\u2019s Candidacy against a Canadian Micha\u00eblle Jean who heads the organization since 2014, continues to get many supporters as it was openly supported by France President Emmanuel Macron in May when President Paul Kagame was visiting France.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26004 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/minisitiri_mushikiwabo_yashimiye_abakuru_b_ibihugu_bya_afurika_bashyigikiye_kandidatire_ye-2-61d7c.jpg\" alt=\"African Heads of States and Governments have supported Mushikiwabo candidacy to the Secretary General of OIF\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The African Heads of States and Governments have supported the candidature of Rwandan Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and East African Community Affairs Minister, Louise Mushikiwabo for the Secretary General of the Organisation Internationale de la  Francophonie (OIF).<\/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-37804","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\/37804","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=37804"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37804\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37804"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37804"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37804"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37804"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37804"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}