{"id":40768,"date":"2020-01-28T15:10:44","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ambassador-kirabo-presents-diplomatic-credentials\/"},"modified":"2020-02-01T19:05:31","modified_gmt":"2020-02-01T19:05:31","slug":"ambassador-kirabo-presents-diplomatic-credentials","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ambassador-kirabo-presents-diplomatic-credentials\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambassador Kirabo presents diplomatic credentials to President Akufo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Through her Twitter account, Ambassador Kirabo vowed to promote good diplomatic relations between Rwanda and Ghana and fulfill the duties she was entrusted with by President Paul Kagame.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to being appointed High Commissioner of Rwanda to Ghana, Dr. Kirabo was Deputy Executive Director and Assistant Secretary-General of UN-Habitat.<\/p>\n<p>She was appointed as ambassador by President Kagame, on July 15th, 2019 along with 15 other High Commissioners.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kirabo replaced Mutsindashyaka Th\u00e9oneste as the Mayor of Kigali from 2006 to 2011. Prior to her tenure as Mayor of Kigali, she was a member of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Land Use and Management, Settlement and Environment.<\/p>\n<p>She replaces Stanislas Kamanzi who was the Ambassador of Rwanda to Ghana since July 2nd, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>The embassy of Rwanda in Ghana was opened as a result of talks between President Kagame and President Nana Akufo.<\/p>\n<p>The Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning (MINECOFIN), National Strategy for Transformation (NST1) outlines foreign investment as a major source of income and a great contribution to the development of the Rwandan economy.<\/p>\n<p>In a bid to encourage exchange between the two countries, RwandAir, the national carrier of Rwanda started Kigali-Accra flight on July 2nd, 2013.<\/p>\n<p>RwandAir flights promoted trade between the two countries and availed many investment opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>In 2014, the Private Sector Federation (PSF) signed partnership agreements with Ghana&#8217;s Ministry of Trade and Industry with the aim of promoting modern agriculture, tourism, clothes industries as well as investment in construction and mining activities.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34607 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ambasaderi_dr._aisa_kirabo_kacyira_ashyikiriza_perezida_wa_ghana_nana_akufo-addo_impapuro_zimwemerera_guhagararira_u_rwanda_muri_ghana-806b4.jpg\" alt=\"Ambassador Dr. Aissa Kirabo Kacyira has presented to the President of Ghana a letter of credence allowing her to represent Rwanda to Ghana. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34608 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ambasaderi_dr._aisa_kirabo_kacyira_ari_kumwe_na_perezida_wa_ghana_nana_akufo-addo-c7206.jpg\" alt=\"Ambassador Kirabo presents diplomatic credentials to President Akufo\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ambassador Dr. Aissa Kirabo Kacyira has presented to the President of Ghana, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, a letter of credence allowing him to represent Rwanda to Ghana. She presented her credentials on Monday, January 27th, 2020 at Ghana President\u2019s Office in Accra.<\/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-40768","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\/40768","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=40768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40768"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40768"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}