{"id":38079,"date":"2018-08-26T17:58:14","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T17:58:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-attends-zimbabwean-president-s\/"},"modified":"2018-08-28T02:50:26","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T02:50:26","slug":"president-kagame-attends-zimbabwean-president-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-attends-zimbabwean-president-s\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame attends Zimbabwean President\u2019s inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people, including several dignitaries and foreign leaders gathered on Sunday at Harare&#8217;s national stadium for the swearing-in of Mnangagwa.<\/p>\n<p>President Kagame arrived in Harare for the event, this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Emmerson Mnangagwa, of the ruling ZANU-PF party, won the July 30 election with 50.8% of the vote \u2014 just enough to meet the 50% threshold needed to avoid a run-off against main opposition leader Nelson Chamisa, who scored 44.3%.<\/p>\n<p>Mnangagwa pledged to &#8220;protect and promote the rights of Zimbabweans&#8221; in his oath.<br \/>\nThe event was attended by South African President Cyril Ramaphosa\u201aTanzania\u2019s President John Magufuli, RDC&#8217;s President Joseph Kabila, Zambia&#8217;s President and Kenya\u2019s President Uhuru Kenyatta among many others.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26901 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/perezida_kagame_ubwo_yari_ageze_muri_zimbabwe-4281f.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame arrived in Harare for the event, this morning.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26900 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/perezida_ramaphosa_kagame_na_mnangagwa_baganira-d0de2.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame with South-African President, Cyril Ramaphosa and Zimbabwean President, Emmerson Mnangagwa\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwandan Head of State and Chairman of African Union, Paul Kagame has attended the inauguration of Emmerson Mnangagwa as president of Zimbabwe, where he took his oath Sunday.<\/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":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38079","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","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\/38079","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=38079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38079"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38079"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}