{"id":40436,"date":"2019-12-02T10:03:01","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T10:03:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-congratulates-namibian-president\/"},"modified":"2019-12-03T17:05:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-03T17:05:44","slug":"president-kagame-congratulates-namibian-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-congratulates-namibian-president\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame congratulates Namibian president on his re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cCongratulations to my brother and friend President Hage G. Geingob on your well-deserved re-election. We look forward to further strengthening the ties between our two nations and wish you and the people of Namibia continued success and prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Geingob won the election on 56.3% on Wednesday 27th, 2019 against candidate Panduleni Itula who was voted for on 29.4%. Compared to his first term where he had 87% of the votes, Geingob\u2019s votes during this re-election were lower.<\/p>\n<p>His political party, Swapo has been ruling Namibia for the last 30 years since Namibia gained independence from South Africa on March 21st, 1990. <\/p>\n<p>In August this year, President Paul Kagame and the First Lady of Rwanda, Jeannette Kagame paid a three-day visit to Namibia with the aim of strengthening the relationship between the two countries.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, President Hage Geingob and the First Lady of Namibia, Monica Geingob were in Rwanda during Rwanda\u2019s 25th liberation anniversary.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Congratulations to my brother &amp; friend President <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hagegeingob?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@hagegeingob<\/a> on your well deserved re-election. We look forward to further strengthening the ties between our two nations and wish you and the people of Namibia continued success and prosperity<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Paul Kagame (@PaulKagame) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulKagame\/status\/1201209002614501376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 1, 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-33699 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/42265422290_80f70c8264_b-ad392.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame has congratulated President Hage G. Geingob on his re-election for a second 5-year term.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame has congratulated President Hage G. Geingob on his re-election for a second 5-year term. In his tweet, President Kagame congratulated Geingob, saying Rwanda is committed to reinforcing the relationship with Namibia and wished prosperity to Geingob and Namibians.<\/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-40436","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\/40436","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=40436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40436"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40436"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}