{"id":43634,"date":"2021-06-02T05:32:07","date_gmt":"2021-06-02T05:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-receives-us-congressional-delegation-led-by-inhofe\/"},"modified":"2021-06-05T05:27:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T05:27:39","slug":"kagame-receives-us-congressional-delegation-led-by-inhofe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-receives-us-congressional-delegation-led-by-inhofe\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame holds discussions with US Congressmen at Urugwiro"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Presidency has via Twitter handle revealed that discussions took place at Village Urugwiro but didn\u2019t point out areas of discussions.<\/p>\n<p>Senator James \u2018Jim\u2019 Mountain Inhofe, 86, who led the delegation has been representing Oklahoma State since 1994.<\/p>\n<p>In 2018, he presented President Kagame\u2019s outstanding achievements including the liberation struggle to stop Genocide to US Senate.  Inhofe is also known for his interest in African affairs.  <\/p>\n<p>At the time, Inhofe said that he has friendship with many leaders on African continent including Head of States and Prime Ministers noting that there are special reasons pushing him to dedicate time to talk about one particular individual who is President \u2018Paul Kagame\u2019.   <\/p>\n<p>He started with the 1994 Genocide against Tutsi that took lives of over 1 million victims who were heinously killed within 100 days. <\/p>\n<p>Senator Inhofe said that UN troops deployed in the country abandoned victims while the international community remained silent including Bill Clinton who was leading America at the time.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt stopped because of one man who is Paul Kagame along with a group of Rwanda refugees from Uganda whose parents fled the country\u2019s mass violence three decades before,\u201d he said.    <\/p>\n<p>He explained that there were two choices after stopping Genocide including revenge or forgiveness and reconciliation but \u2018he chose the last option\u2019 for Rwandans to have a common future.   <\/p>\n<p>During his recent visit to Rwanda, he commended Rwanda\u2019s cleanliness, registered development in terms of infrastructure, growing of tea, coffee, security and steadfast economy. <\/p>\n<p>Senator Inhofe explained that Kagame has changed Africans\u2019 mindsets to foreigners not because he doesn\u2019t want to work with them but encouraging them to develop home grown solution towards achieving self-reliance. <\/p>\n<p>Inhofe visited Rwanda at different times and held talks with President Kagame.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38596 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/e2z2w7rx0aerq5u.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame in a group photo with US Congressional delegation.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38598 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/whatsapp_ima5ff9-ad073.jpg\" alt=\"Kagame held talks with US Congressmen including Senator Jim Inhofe. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38597 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kagame_receives_mississipi.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame yesterday received US Congressional delegation led by Senator Jim Inhofe representing Oklahoma State, Senator Mike Rounds representing South Dakota and Trent Kelly of Mississippi.}<\/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-43634","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\/43634","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=43634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43634"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43634"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}