{"id":39735,"date":"2019-07-25T18:05:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T18:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-condoles-with-tunisia-for-the-passing-of\/"},"modified":"2019-07-29T13:47:32","modified_gmt":"2019-07-29T13:47:32","slug":"kagame-condoles-with-tunisia-for-the-passing-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-condoles-with-tunisia-for-the-passing-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame condoles with Tunisia for the passing of President Essebi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8221; Saddened to learn of the passing of His Excellency Beji Ca\u00efd Essebsi, President of Tunisia and African statesman. Our sincere condolences to his family, and the Government and people of Tunisia,&#8221; he said in a tweet.<\/p>\n<p>The President of the African Union Commission,  Moussa Faki Mahamat also sent a condolence message to Tunisians. <\/p>\n<p>&#8221; I am deeply saddened to learn about the passing of President of Tunisia, Beji Ca\u00efd Essebsi, on this 25th July 2019. My condolences with his family, people and the Government of Tunisia&#8221;   he said. <\/p>\n<p>Essebsi, 92,  has passed away after being hospitalized for the third time in recent weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Radio station Mosaique and state broadcaster Wataniya have reported Beji Caid Essebsi was hospitalized Wednesday night for unspecified health trouble.<\/p>\n<p>Essebsi is Tunisia\u2019s first democratically elected president, having won office in 2014 in the wake of the country\u2019s Arab Spring uprising. <\/p>\n<p>He recently announced he wouldn\u2019t run in the election scheduled for November, saying a younger person should lead the country.<\/p>\n<p>He was hospitalized twice in June.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Saddened to learn of the passing of His Excellency Beji Ca\u00efd Essebsi, President of Tunisia and African statesman. Our sincere condolences to his family, and the Government and people of Tunisia.<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Paul Kagame (@PaulKagame) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulKagame\/status\/1154380844787806208?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 25, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-30965 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/he-64-d61fd.jpg\" alt=\"Essebsi, 92,  has passed away after being hospitalized for the third time in recent weeks.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame has condoled with Tunisia and its people for the passing of Beji Ca\u00efd Essebsi, President of Tunisia and African statesman who breathed his last today.<\/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-39735","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\/39735","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=39735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39735"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39735"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}