{"id":41752,"date":"2020-07-27T04:35:53","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T04:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/flag-to-be-flown-at-half-mast-as-rwandan-mourn-president-mkapa\/"},"modified":"2020-07-28T16:13:04","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T16:13:04","slug":"flag-to-be-flown-at-half-mast-as-rwandan-mourn-president-mkapa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/flag-to-be-flown-at-half-mast-as-rwandan-mourn-president-mkapa\/","title":{"rendered":"Flag to be flown at half-mast as Rwandan mourn President Mkapa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIn solidarity with government and the people of United Republic of Tanzania during this time of grief following the demise of His Excellency Benjamin William Mkapa, the third President of the United Republic of Tanzania.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Former President Benjamin Mkapa died on July 23rd in Dar Es Salam \u2013 Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p>The statement reads the mourning period will start from Monday 27th July to Wednesday 29th July.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe remain in solidarity with the people and the government of the United Republic of Tanzania as well as with the family of the late President Mkapa,\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36325 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mkapa_yagarutse_mu_rwanda_mu_nama_yahuje_abahoze_ari_abakuru_b_ibihugu_muri_afurika_african_leadership_forum_alf_yabaye_ku_wa_2_kanama_2018-ceeee_1_-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a statement signed by Prime Minister Edouard Ngirente, President Paul Kagame has declared a three day national mourning during which the National Flag and the Flag of the East African Community will be flown at half-mast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[2942],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41752","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-nicole-kamanzi-m"],"bylines":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41752","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41752\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41752"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41752"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}