{"id":42488,"date":"2020-12-21T08:38:39","date_gmt":"2020-12-21T08:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-to-deliver-state-of-the-nation-address-today\/"},"modified":"2020-12-21T08:38:33","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T08:38:33","slug":"kagame-to-deliver-state-of-the-nation-address-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-to-deliver-state-of-the-nation-address-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame to deliver State of the Nation Address today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The speech is usually delivered at \u2018Umushyikirano\u2019 (National Dialogue Council) which has been cancelled due to COVID-19 preventive measures.  <\/p>\n<p>As the council was canceled last week, the cabinet meeting announced that the President of the Republic will hold an interactive session with citizens and members of the press during which he will deliver \u2018State of the Nation\u2019 address on 21st December 2020.  <\/p>\n<p>The speech is expected to comfort Rwandans especially during these difficult times of COVID-19 pandemic which has destabilized the economy and well-being at large.  <\/p>\n<p>The \u2018State of the Nation\u2019 address is stipulated by the constitution under the article 98 which determines duties of President of the Republic.  <\/p>\n<p>The third paragraph reads that President of the Republic delivers \u2018State of the Nation\u2019 address once every year.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame will today deliver \u2018State of the Nation\u2019 address, a speech that is often held once in a year. } <\/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":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-42488","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\/42488","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=42488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42488"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=42488"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=42488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}