{"id":38019,"date":"2018-08-17T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-17T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-in-namibia-for-sadc-summit\/"},"modified":"2018-08-20T09:06:01","modified_gmt":"2018-08-20T09:06:01","slug":"kagame-in-namibia-for-sadc-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-in-namibia-for-sadc-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame in Namibia for SADC Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The President is attending in his capacity as the Chairperson of the African Union.<\/p>\n<p>The two-day Summit starting today, is held under the theme &#8220;Promoting Infrastructure Development and Youth Empowerment for Sustainable Development.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>It focuses on sustainable growth through a conductive environment for industrialisation processes. <\/p>\n<p>The organisation has been seized with the industrialisation agenda for the past four summits.<\/p>\n<p>SADC, formerly the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC), was established on April 1, 1980. The organisation aims to facilitate regional economic integration between Member States and within the continent. It has 16 Member States including Angola, Botswana, Comoros, DRC, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, the Kingdom of eSwatini, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. <\/p>\n<p>The ideals of SADC are towards a common future within a regional community that will ensure improvement of standards of living and quality of life, freedom and social justice, and peace and security for the people of southern Africa.<\/p>\n<p>At the Summit, President Hage Geingob of Namibia will be taking over the SADC Chairmanship from President Cyril Ramaphosa of South Africa.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26767 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/perezida_kagame_yageze_windhoek_muri_namibia_aho_yitabiriye_inama_ya_sadc-fcf92.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame is in Windhoek, Namibia where he will deliver remarks during the 38th Summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26766 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/perezida_kagame_yageze_muri_namibia_anakirwa_na_perezida_w_iki_gihugu_hage_geingob-04e98.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame welcomed by Namibian President, Hage Geingob\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Kagame has arrived in Windhoek, Namibia where he is expected to deliver remarks at the 38th Summit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC). <\/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-38019","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\/38019","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=38019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38019"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38019"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}