{"id":40894,"date":"2020-02-27T16:06:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-27T16:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-opens-65-million-one-only\/"},"modified":"2020-03-05T13:44:40","modified_gmt":"2020-03-05T13:44:40","slug":"president-kagame-opens-65-million-one-only","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-opens-65-million-one-only\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame opens  $65 million One&#038;Only Gorilla\u2019s Nest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The multi-million facility has 21 rooms, decorated with Rwandan cultural items such as Imigongo and other artworks.<\/p>\n<p>President Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame launched the hotel this Thursday, February 27, 2020. Present were also Mohammed Ibrahim Al Shaibani, the director of Kerzner International that manages all hotels of One&#038;Only.<\/p>\n<p>President Kagame appreciated this investment, saying that it is a good collaboration between Rwanda and its United Arab Emirates friends.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to thank you for your investment. We must strive to make this investment earn all of us a benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said that the investment,with a sister branch in Nyungwe, is in line with Rwanda\u2019s vision of developing extraordinary infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will take it as ours, as yours. We will also keep adding value to it in different ways.\u201d<br \/>\nMuhammed Ibrahim Al Shaibani thanked all people involved in the construction of the hotel. He said that Kerzner will open four more such hotels in different places this year, but that, \u201cto be honest, no one asked me about the other places other than Rwanda. They asked me, \u2018When will the hotel be ready so that we visit Rwanda.\u2019 It looks like this country has a lot of attractions. The pictures of this hotel have themselves attracted much attention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Chief Executive Officer of Rwanda Development Board, Clare Akamanzi said that Rwanda now has two One and Only hotels and thanked Kerzner for believing in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>She said that Rwanda continues to find possible ways to provide tourists with the safest hospitality and that it is progressing positively.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34990 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dsc_8924-3-f3c3b.jpg\" alt=\"The multi-million facility has 21 rooms, decorated with Rwandan cultural items such as Imigongo and other artworks.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34991 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dsc_8929-2-159a0.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame launched the hotel this Thursday, February 27, 2020.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34992 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dsc_8997-52f27.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34993 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dsc_9062-65334.jpg\" alt=\"The Chief Executive Officer of Rwanda Development Board, Clare Akamanzi said that Rwanda now has two One and Only hotels\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34995 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dsc_9107-2bac7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34996 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dsc_9165-a2193.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame appreciated this investment, saying that it is a good collaboration between Rwanda and its United Arab Emirates friends.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34997 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dsc_9226-8ccef.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-34998 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dsc_9268-532ce.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame has officially opened One&amp;Only Gorilla\u2019s Nest, a $65 million worth hotel located in Kinigi\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame has officially opened One&#038;Only Gorilla\u2019s Nest, a $65 million worth hotel located in Kinigi, Musanze District with a promise to Dubai investors and owners of Rwanda\u2019s commitment to promoting the hotel so that it generates income to both sides. The construction of the hotel that lasted two years was completed last year. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":81,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[236],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-40894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-alain-jules-hirwa"],"bylines":[{"id":236,"name":"Alain Jules Hirwa","slug":"alain-jules-hirwa","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":81}],"contributors":[{"id":236,"name":"Alain Jules Hirwa","slug":"alain-jules-hirwa","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":81}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40894","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\/81"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40894"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40894"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}