{"id":38286,"date":"2018-10-05T08:23:42","date_gmt":"2018-10-05T08:23:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-hosts-us-congress-delegation-to-a-luncheon\/"},"modified":"2018-10-05T12:51:19","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T12:51:19","slug":"kagame-hosts-us-congress-delegation-to-a-luncheon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-hosts-us-congress-delegation-to-a-luncheon\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame hosts US Congress delegation to a luncheon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The luncheon was held at Village Urugwiro, President\u2019s Office on Thursday. The US Congress delegation was in Rwanda on a two-day visit which they started on October 2.<br \/>\nThe visit is in line with the US Congress delegation programme to visit different countries including Germany, Botswana, Angola, Tunisia and Portugal.<\/p>\n<p>The Leader of the Delegation, Robert Goodlatte chose Rwanda as one of the countries on their visiting list due to \u2018the growth Rwanda has attained recently\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The US Congressional Delegation comprises of members of the Judiciary Committee, the Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, the Committee on Budget, the Committee on Taxes and the Committee on Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n<p>During their visit in Rwanda, the US Congressional Delegation members met different government officials including the Minister of Defense and the Minister of Foreign Affairs.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27319 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/doqnbanxkae5kvi-59ee1.jpg\" alt=\"The delegation brought gifts for the Head of State, Paul Kagame\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27318 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/doqnbaaw0aazo8r-1ee0a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame hosted a US Congress delegation to a luncheon led by Robert Goodlatte, Chairman of the Judiciary Committee.<\/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-38286","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\/38286","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=38286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38286"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38286"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}