{"id":39576,"date":"2019-06-26T21:33:28","date_gmt":"2019-06-26T21:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-heads-to-botswana\/"},"modified":"2019-06-28T10:14:13","modified_gmt":"2019-06-28T10:14:13","slug":"president-kagame-heads-to-botswana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-heads-to-botswana\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame heads to Botswana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the statement, Kagame is expected to pay a two-day state visit to Botswana from 27th to 28th June at the invitation of his Botswanan counterpart, President Mokgweetsi Masisi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;President Kagame&#8217;s visit marks an exciting moment in the relations between Botswana and Rwanda, as this will be the first at head of state and government level,&#8221; reads the statement in part. <\/p>\n<p>According to the statement, the visit will also afford the two &#8220;ambitious&#8221; leaders an invaluable opportunity to exchange views on bilateral, regional and international issues of mutual interest.<\/p>\n<p>The visit is also expected to provide Botswana with a golden opportunity learn from Rwanda&#8217;s &#8220;wealthy technological advancement&#8221; into the fourth industrial revolution.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda is one of the best performing nations on the African continent and is touted as an emerging economy to watch.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2012, Rwanda\u2019s Ambassador Vincent Karega with residence in South Africa presented credentials to the President of Botswana Lt Gen Seretse Khama Ian Khama to represent Rwanda in the country. <\/p>\n<p>At the time, President Khama said that Botswana and Rwanda are landlocked countries which count on good governance to scale up economic development. <\/p>\n<p>He explained that both countries enjoy existing cooperation in agriculture and security. <\/p>\n<p>Botswana accommodates Rwandans actively involved in their countries progress and different charities donating Mutuelle de Sant\u00e9 to the needy. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-30064 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2_-_copy-8-c7977.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame two days visit at the invitation of his Botswanan counterpart, President Mokgweetsi Masisi\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-30065 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/3-2083-3a929.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame is set to become the first incumbent head of state to visit Botswana\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame is set to become the first incumbent head of state to visit Botswana, a statement from Botswana&#8217;s Ministry of International Affairs and Cooperation has announced this Wednesday.<\/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":[133],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-main-featured-home","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\/39576","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=39576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39576"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39576"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}