{"id":38769,"date":"2019-01-16T17:32:43","date_gmt":"2019-01-16T17:32:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-to-chair-au-meeting-to-discuss-drc\/"},"modified":"2019-01-16T17:32:31","modified_gmt":"2019-01-16T17:32:31","slug":"kagame-to-chair-au-meeting-to-discuss-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-to-chair-au-meeting-to-discuss-drc\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame to chair AU meeting to discuss DRC disputed elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting slated to be held tomorrow on January 17th, 2019 will see 16 Heads of State and Government at the African Union (AU) headquarters convene in Addis, Ethiopia.<br \/>\nThe meeting will be preceded by the emergency meeting of the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC) in which Kagame also was invited in.<\/p>\n<p>The Democratic Republic of Congo held provincial and presidential elections on December 30th, 2018 after which the National Independent Electoral Commission (CENI) in DRC announced Felix Tshisekedi the winner.<\/p>\n<p> Martin Fayulu, a presidential candidate, dismissed the results and filed an appeal at the Constitutional Court. <\/p>\n<p>In a hearing on Tuesday, the Prosecutor told Court that Fayulu had no ample evidence supporting his allegations that elections were rigged hence demanding the manual recounting of votes. <\/p>\n<p>SADC also advised the DRC to verify the votes proposing a unity government comprised of sides of Martin Fayulu and F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi in a bid to avoid violence and restore peace.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28004 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kagame_with_kabila.jpg\" alt=\"When President Kagame met Joseph Kabila, DRC outgoing President in August 2016 \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame also current Chairperson of the African Union will chair the African Union (AU) Heads of States and governments\u2019 meeting that will among other issues; discuss the DRC presidential post-election problems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-48","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\/38769","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38769"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38769\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38769"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38769"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}