{"id":39163,"date":"2019-04-14T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-14T12:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-donates-usd-700-000-to-support-disaster\/"},"modified":"2019-04-15T10:05:55","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T10:05:55","slug":"rwanda-donates-usd-700-000-to-support-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-donates-usd-700-000-to-support-disaster\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda donates USD $700,000 to support disaster-affected people in Southern Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 1000 people have been reported killed by disasters. The State Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Amb. Olivier Nduhungirehe has told IGIHE that Rwanda condoles with those countries affected. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have donated the support to three countries affected as a gesture of brotherhood,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>The Government of Rwanda has donated USD $ 200,000 (over Rwf 180 million) to Malawi, USD $ 200,000 to Zimbabwe and USD $ 300,000 (over Rwf 270 million) to Mozambique.<br \/>\nRwanda\u2019s ambassador to Zambia and Malawi, Monique Mukaruliza has handed USD $ 200,000 cheque to Malawi government. <\/p>\n<p>Malawi government has expressed appreciation for the gesture through the government twitter account. \u201cWe express gratitude to the government of Rwanda for donating USD $ 200,000 for emergency support disaster-affected people,\u201d reads the tweet. <\/p>\n<p>A total of 602 people have been reported killed by the disasters in Mozambique, 344 in Zimbabwe and 59 in Malawi. The United Nations reported that the Cyclone Idai is the first ever of its kind in Southern part of the World. <\/p>\n<p>At least 3 million people need emergent humanitarian assistance in affected countries while UN is raising funds of USD $ 282 million three to support needy people.   <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28859 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ambasader_muaec5-16e28.jpg\" alt=\"The government of Rwanda has donated USD $700,000 (over Rwf 630 million) to support people affected Cyclone Idai in Southern Africa\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government of Rwanda has donated USD $700,000 (over Rwf 630 million) to support people affected Cyclone Idai in Mozambique, Zimbabwe and  Malawi.which made landfall on March 14, 2019, bringing torrential rain, heavy winds, and widespread flooding. <\/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-39163","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\/39163","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=39163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39163"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39163"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}