{"id":40191,"date":"2019-10-16T11:47:25","date_gmt":"2019-10-16T11:47:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/amb-kayihura-presents-credentials-to-south\/"},"modified":"2019-10-18T10:23:35","modified_gmt":"2019-10-18T10:23:35","slug":"amb-kayihura-presents-credentials-to-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/amb-kayihura-presents-credentials-to-south\/","title":{"rendered":"Amb. Kayihura presents credentials to South African president"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He replaces Vincent Karega who was appointed to represent Rwanda in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda and South Africa have been working towards revitalizing relations that soured in 2014 over political crises related to hosting convicted fugitives including Kayumba Nyamwasa convicted of terrorism acts that involved grenade attacks in different parts of Kigali taking lives of many people.  <\/p>\n<p>At the time, South Africa also accused Rwanda of being behind an armed attack on Kayumba\u2019s home in South Africa.   <\/p>\n<p>This saw South Africa suspending the issuance of Visa to Rwandans heading to the country using ordinary passports and deported three Rwandan diplomats in Pretoria. In return, Rwanda expelled six South Africa\u2019s diplomats.  <\/p>\n<p>As President Ramaphosa attended African Union Summit in Kigali 2018, he revealed that he had agreed with his Rwandan counterpart Paul Kagame to facilitate both countries\u2019 Foreign Affairs Ministers to deal with the issue amicably and make a report for implementation. No progress has so far been reported. <\/p>\n<p>George Nkosinati Twala was the last South Africa Ambassador to Rwanda. He was recalled after ending a 6-year term limit but has not yet been replaced.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32796 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/89a18504-b237-4e6e-b6d6-8c68b2bfd218-bad29.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32797 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/926b6d44-3440-4c4a-a4a5-7afcb4906e1c-c99e2.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda and South Africa have been working towards revitalizing relations that soured in 2014 over political crises \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32798 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/957c1fcd-b72a-4416-b5df-73a54be02be1-ae8df.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32799 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/cc820667-57fb-4cf5-b95e-7014e4d7755d-6b7b5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32800 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/de89465d-5136-4261-89ba-cc71679bd78f-7d745.jpg\" alt=\"Ambassador Eugene Kayihura has presented credential letters to South Africa\u2019s President, Cyril Ramaphosa to represent Rwanda in the country.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador Eugene Kayihura has presented credential letters to South Africa\u2019s President, Cyril Ramaphosa to represent Rwanda in the country.<\/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-40191","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\/40191","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=40191"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40191"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40191"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}