{"id":38576,"date":"2018-11-30T13:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T13:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-holds-talks-with-south-africa-s\/"},"modified":"2018-12-03T07:30:03","modified_gmt":"2018-12-03T07:30:03","slug":"president-kagame-holds-talks-with-south-africa-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-holds-talks-with-south-africa-s\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame holds talks with South Africa&#8217;s Ramaphosa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting is taking place in  Buenos Aires, Argentina, where President Kagame is also participating in G20 Summit. He will speak on \u201cPutting People First\u201d a topic highlighting technology, youth jobs, and women empowerment.<\/p>\n<p>The office of the President on Twitter wrote that Kagame and Ramaphosa have held discussions but did not reveal the content of their discussions.<\/p>\n<p>The discussions of both heads of state take place as plans to revitalize their countries\u2019 relationship which has not been good are being crafted.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2014, Rwanda and South Africa\u2019s relationship has been bad.<\/p>\n<p>Rwandan ambassador to  South Africa Vincent Karega, recently told IGIHE that since Ramaphosa took power, there have been steps taken towards normalizing relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda is worried by people accused of terrorism crimes that are hiding in South Africa, such as Kayumba Nyamwasa.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda is also raising issues of Rwandans who are denied visas to South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>In March, President Cyril Ramaphosa said that the problem of Rwandans being denied visas to South Africa was going to become history after holding talks with President Paul Kagame.<\/p>\n<p>President Kagame and Ramaphosa had last held talks in Nouakchott, Mauritania, end of June this year, on the occasion of the 31st Summit of the African Union.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame who is also chairman of the African Union (AU), has met his South African counterpart, Cyril Ramaphosa in Argentina where they are both attending the G20 Summit.<\/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-38576","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\/38576","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=38576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38576"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38576"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}