After the talks with Ouattara, Mushikiwabo, who is currently Rwanda\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Cooperation and East Africa affairs, said she shared with the President her plans for OIF.<\/p>\n
\u201cAn instrumental meeting today with President Ouattara at Abidjan. He advised the candidate Mushikiwabo to have a road map based on precise and achievable objectives for Francophonie, which he believes lacks concrete results,\u201d reads her tweet.<\/p>\n
Prior to reaching C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, Mushikiwabo campaigned in Burkina Faso the same day. She was also in Tunisia and Niger for the same mission on Friday and Saturday respectively. <\/p>\n
She has been meeting Heads of State in OIF member countries for about three months. <\/p>\n
She is campaigning against the Canadian Micha\u00eblle Jean who is serving her first term as OIF Secretary General since 2015.<\/p>\n
OIF General Assembly of Heads of State is expected in Armenia on October 11-12. The assembly will vote the organisation\u2019s General Secretary for the next four years.
\nFounded in 1970, OIF or La Francophonie as it is widely known, brings together 58 French speaking countries from across the world. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
President of C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire Alassane Dramane Ouattara received Monday Louise Mushikiwabo who is seeking support for the position of Secretary General of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF).<\/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-38155","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\/38155","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=38155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38155"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38155"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}