{"id":39487,"date":"2019-06-11T14:05:50","date_gmt":"2019-06-11T14:05:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-delighted-with-gabon-counterpart-s-health\/"},"modified":"2019-06-14T10:33:14","modified_gmt":"2019-06-14T10:33:14","slug":"kagame-delighted-with-gabon-counterpart-s-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-delighted-with-gabon-counterpart-s-health\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame delighted with Gabon counterpart\u2019s health improvement"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kagame expressed the delight yesterday on the first day of his visit to Gabon.<\/p>\n

President Bongo was hospitalized in Riyadh Saoudi Arabia suffering from stroke in December last year. <\/p>\n

He returned to his country in January 2019 where he kept getting medical assistance. <\/p>\n

As he addressed the press yesterday, President Kagame expressed delight to find time to be in Gabon and continue on the path of strengthening bilateral relations between Gabon and Rwanda and visiting his counterpart who is recovering. <\/p>\n

\u201cIt gives me an opportunity to visit with my colleague who has not been feeling well. I am glad that there is significant improvement to his health that has led to the resumption of his responsibilities,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn the African way, we visit friends when it is good times and when it is not so good times,\u201d added Kagame. <\/p>\n

He explained that Gabon has been committed towards supporting Africa\u2019s development. <\/p>\n

\u201cGabon has been central to African interests, vision and the strategy to achieve that vision. President Bongo has been very active working with other leaders on our continent to make sure we raise our level of development,\u201d stressed Kagame. <\/p>\n

Africa Free Trade Area (AfCFTA)is expected to be implemented next month. <\/p>\n

Gabon is among 44 countries that signed AfCFTA. <\/p>\n

President Kagame said all African countries are aware of AfCFTA benefits expressing optimism that remaining ones will ratify the agreements. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe have seen significant progress since inception, we have reached the number of countries required to ratify for the agreement to take effect. Even the others who have not ratified, it\u2019s not because they are not interested or don\u2019t see the necessity. It is just because they have difficulties, whether legal or technical, they need to overcome before they participate,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

President Kagame also talked on solution to conflicts on the continent where he highlighted that \u2018there is no other way to deal with these problems until we work together\u2019. <\/p>\n

Rwanda and Gabon enjoy existing vibrant relations. They are all members of Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS). <\/p>\n

Rwanda and Gabon signed cooperation agreement since 1976 that were revised in 2010.<\/p>\n

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President Paul Kagame has expressed delight to see his Gabin counterpart, Ali Bongo Ondimba in good health and resuming responsibilities after a long period of sickness.<\/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-39487","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\/39487","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=39487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39487"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39487"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}