{"id":37935,"date":"2018-07-31T12:15:40","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T12:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/drc-consults-rwanda-ahead-of-presidential\/"},"modified":"2018-08-02T12:02:07","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T12:02:07","slug":"drc-consults-rwanda-ahead-of-presidential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/drc-consults-rwanda-ahead-of-presidential\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC consults Rwanda ahead of Presidential Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okitundu who was accompanied by Chief Intelligence in RDC, Kalev Mutond among other officials briefed President Kagame who is also the chairperson of African Union about the electoral process in the DRC.<\/p>\n<p>Presidential Elections in the DRC are scheduled on December 23rd 2018.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Twitter account of DRC Foreign Affairs Ministry, Okitundu and Kagame discussed Presidential Elections and Economic Community of the Great Lakes Countries (CEPGL) Projects.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis Sunday to Kigali She transmitted a special message from President Kabila to President Kagame. Evolution of electoral process welcomed, security of common borders before elections, facing armed groups, good neighbors and CEPGL projects,\u201d a tweet reads.<\/p>\n<p>Okitundu\u2019s visit to Rwanda followed that of Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and East African Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo to DRC last week, seeking support for her candidature on the post of the Secretary General of the Organisation of French Speaking Countries (OIF) commonly known as La Francophonie.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26431 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/perezida_kagame_yagejejweho_ubutumwa_bwa_mugenzi_we_kabila-bd3b2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26432 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/perezida_kagame_yakiriye_itsinda_riyobowe_na_minisitiri_okitundu-4f520.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26433 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/perezida_kagame_yakiriye_minisitiri_leonard_she_okitundu_amugezaho_ubutumwa_bwa_perezida_kabila-b0da5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), L\u00e9onard She Okitundu on Sunday was received by President Paul Kagame in Kigali with a special message from Congolese President Joseph Kabila.<\/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-37935","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\/37935","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=37935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37935"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37935"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}