{"id":42966,"date":"2021-02-28T06:34:07","date_gmt":"2021-02-28T06:34:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/our-focus-should-be-on-rebuilding-stronger-than-before-kagame\/"},"modified":"2021-03-03T07:34:34","modified_gmt":"2021-03-03T07:34:34","slug":"our-focus-should-be-on-rebuilding-stronger-than-before-kagame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/our-focus-should-be-on-rebuilding-stronger-than-before-kagame\/","title":{"rendered":"Our focus should be on rebuilding stronger than before-Kagame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In his remarks, President Kagame noted that the positive examples of cooperation through the East African Community institutions has played a role in mitigating the effects of the Covid-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>He added that \u2018the regional focus now should be on rebuilding stronger than before, with closer regional cooperation as a pillar of our resilience and prosperity\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>During the summit, President Kagame handed over the chairmanship of the East African Community to the new chairperson, President Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya.<\/p>\n<p>{{Full speech: }}<\/p>\n<p>-* Excellency, President Uhuru Kenyatta, Chairperson of the Summit<\/p>\n<p>-* Excellencies, Heads of State and Government<\/p>\n<p>-* Secretary-General<\/p>\n<p>-* Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen<\/p>\n<p>I first wish to congratulate the new Chairperson of the Summit, my brother President Uhuru Kenyatta.<\/p>\n<p>I also extend a warm welcome to our new Secretary-General, Dr Peter Mathuki. We look forward to working closely with you.<\/p>\n<p>I thank our outgoing Secretary-General, Ambassador Lib\u00e9rat Mfumukeko, for his dedication and service to our organisation, and wish him all the best in his future endeavours.<\/p>\n<p>Let me also thank the Heads of State, as well as the East African Community Secretariat, for the cooperation afforded to Rwanda during our tenure as Chair.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a year like no other, for East Africa and for the world.<\/p>\n<p>Our health systems have been challenged like never before, and the disruption to travel and trade has been significant.<\/p>\n<p>This situation has had real impacts on the well-being and livelihoods of our people.<\/p>\n<p>However, the positive examples of cooperation we have seen, through our East African Community institutions, has played a role in mitigating the effects of the pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>Our focus now should be on rebuilding stronger than before, with closer regional cooperation as a pillar of our resilience and prosperity.<\/p>\n<p>Let us continue in this spirit, and actually do even more and better, together.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your attention.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-37893 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kaga.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame during an event recently.  Photo  Village Urugwiro \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame yesterday chaired the 21st Ordinary Summit of the East African Community Heads of State. The virtual summit appointed the new Secretary General of the Community; Dr. Peter Mutuku Mathuki and judges to the East African Court of Justice.}<\/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":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-42966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/42966","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=42966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42966"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=42966"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=42966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}