{"id":38086,"date":"2018-08-27T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/akon-to-attend-kwita-izina-2018\/"},"modified":"2018-08-28T02:25:21","modified_gmt":"2018-08-28T02:25:21","slug":"akon-to-attend-kwita-izina-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/akon-to-attend-kwita-izina-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Akon to attend Kwita Izina 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reliable sources reveal to IGIHE that the Senegalese-American singer Akon is among the special guests who will give names to 23 gorilla infants on September 7.<br \/>\nAkon will also participate at the Kwita Izina Gala Dinner that will take place in Rubavu District shortly after the gorilla naming ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Mafikizolo, South African singing duo, will entertain participants at the dinner. <\/p>\n<p>While in Rwanda, Akon will also visit his solar project in Ndego Sector of Kayonza District. <\/p>\n<p>The initiative is part of a wider Akon Lighting Africa project that is being implemented by Solektra International in which the star has shares.<\/p>\n<p>Akon Lighting Africa was launched in 2014 but Akon brought it to Rwanda in July 2015. <\/p>\n<p>At the time, Akon held talks with different government officials but IGIHE learnt from the Ministry of Infrastructure in July 2017 that nothing had been done until then. <\/p>\n<p>The project aimed at distributing solar energy systems to remote areas targets 12 African countries including Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Others are Mali, Niger, Senegal, Guinea Conakry, Sierra Leone, Benin, Guinea Equatorial, Gabon, Republic of Congo, Namibia, Madagascar and Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-26918 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1438464240akc3a4-3602e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RnB Star Alioune Damala Badara Thiam, aka Akon, is expected to attend the gorilla naming ceremony, locally known as Kwita Izina, in Kinigi, Musanze District, next week.<\/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":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","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\/38086","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=38086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38086\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38086"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38086"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}