{"id":37863,"date":"2018-07-14T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/oif-michaelle-jean-makes-false-claims-on-minister\/"},"modified":"2018-07-18T15:13:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-18T15:13:09","slug":"oif-michaelle-jean-makes-false-claims-on-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/oif-michaelle-jean-makes-false-claims-on-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"OIF: Micha\u00eblle Jean makes false claims on Minister Mushikiwabo’s diplomatic background"},"content":{"rendered":"

Three months from the Yerevan summit, where the new secretary general of the International Organization of la Francophonie (OIF) will be elected on October 11 and 12, the campaign continues for Micha\u00eblle Jean, the incumbent President and her opponent, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Rwanda, Louise Mushikiwabo. <\/p>\n

During an interview with Radio-Canada that took place Wednesday, 11th July, Canadian Micha\u00eblle Jean claimed that she personally knew Mushikiwabo who, according to her, “had been Rwanda’s ambassador to Canada”. <\/p>\n

“She showed me her credentials while I was still Governor General in Canada,” she added.<\/p>\n

The Minister of Foreign Affairs since 2009, Louise Mushikiwabo has never been Rwanda’s ambassador to Canada. At the time when Michaelle Jean was Governor General (2005-2010), Edda Mukabagwiza, now a member of the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF), was the representative of Rwanda in Ottawa.<\/p>\n

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Few hours after being released, the video of the Interview went viral on Social Media, where some people criticized Jean\u2019s wrong claims on Mushikiwabo.<\/p>\n

A tweep who goes by Sharangabo wrote \u201cIt is very Sad. Micha\u00eblle Jean, Mrs Louise Mushikiwabo was never Rwanda’s Ambassador in Canada or anywhere else on Earth.\u201d<\/p>\n

Another tweep who goes by Oria K. Itegeri said \u201cIt is really sad\u2026 and hilarious on another side. And the way she contradicted herself saying \u2018I am not in competition\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis showed me that the journalist was not well-informed about Mushikiwabo either for she would have corrected her\u201d, said Mireille (@M_Musaniwabo)<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Louise Mushikiwabo on Wednesday officially submitted her candidature for the position of Secretary General of the International Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF).<\/p>\n

The organization, to which Rwanda subscribes, brings together French-speaking countries across the world.<\/p>\n

Among her ideals, Mushikiwabo seeks to prioritize peace, security and promotion of the youth among others.<\/p>\n

She is currently on a campaign trail across various OIF member countries.
\nIn support of her candidature, President Paul Kagame officially wrote to all African states who are members of the organization requesting them to back the Rwandan candidate. She also has been shown support by French President Emmanuel Macron who wields great influence in la Francophonie and pays the largest portion of its bills.<\/p>\n

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Incumbent Secretary General of La Francophonie Micha\u00eblle Jean has been slammed on twitter after making false claims that Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo had before served as ambassador of Rwanda to Canada\u2014 a position she never held.<\/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-37863","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\/37863","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=37863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37863"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37863"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}