{"id":38463,"date":"2018-11-06T14:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-holds-phone-conversation-with\/"},"modified":"2018-11-08T08:39:20","modified_gmt":"2018-11-08T08:39:20","slug":"president-kagame-holds-phone-conversation-with","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-holds-phone-conversation-with\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame holds phone conversation with Moroccan King"},"content":{"rendered":"

According to a statement from the Moroccan royal cabinet, the two also discussed bilateral relations.<\/p>\n

The conversation comes a few days before an Extraordinary African Union Summit that is slated for November 11, 2018 in Addis Ababa. It will discuss the status of the implementation of AU recommended reforms.<\/p>\n

The summit started on November 5th, but heads of state and government will take part on November 17-18, 2018.<\/p>\n

In the conversation, King Mohammed VI welcomed the zeal of AU chairman, President Kagame and pledged to support him in the process of revitalising the function of AU.
\nRegarding the reform process at AU, a meeting of heads of state in July 2016, approved a Peace Fund of $325 million in 2017, and $400 million in 2020.<\/p>\n

About US$1.2 billion is expected to be collected from 55 AU member countries every year, from 0.2% of levy on imports.<\/p>\n

The two leaders have also discussed issues that continue to strengthen the relations between the two countries in various sectors.<\/p>\n

In October 2016, King Mohammed VI along with a delegation visited Rwanda where the two leaders signed bilateral agreements in business, political and social sectors.
\nThe delegation that accompanied King Mohammed VI explored investment opportunities and partnerships in Rwanda.<\/p>\n

While in Kigali, 22 some co-operation agreements between the two countries were signed. They included a Memorandum of Understanding on political consultation mechanism, an air service agreement, an agreement on the exemption of visa and an agreement on security cooperation and tourism.<\/p>\n

There were also agreements to building up to 5000 houses in Ndera Sector that will cost $68 million (Rwf54 billion), 1 million euro that was donated to Imbuto Foundation, building a pharmaceutical and technology school, among others.<\/p>\n

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President Paul Kagame who is also the chairperson of the African Union (AU), had held a telephone talk with King Mohammed VI of Morocco who thanked him for the continued progress in reforms of the organization. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[69],"byline":[197],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-homehighlights","byline-john-mbaraga"],"bylines":[{"id":197,"name":"John Mbaraga","slug":"john-mbaraga","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":19}],"contributors":[{"id":197,"name":"John Mbaraga","slug":"john-mbaraga","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":19}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38463","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38463"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38463"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}