{"id":44082,"date":"2021-08-06T07:10:14","date_gmt":"2021-08-06T07:10:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-hosts-touadera-to-state-banquet\/"},"modified":"2021-08-07T08:33:25","modified_gmt":"2021-08-07T08:33:25","slug":"kagame-hosts-touadera-to-state-banquet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-hosts-touadera-to-state-banquet\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame hosts Touad\u00e9ra at State Banquet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The event took place last evening at Kigali Convention Center.  <\/p>\n<p>Touad\u00e9ra arrived in Rwanda on Thursday 5th August 2021 for a four-day state visit.  <\/p>\n<p>Upon arrival at Kigali International Airport; he was welcomed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr. Vincent Biruta. <\/p>\n<p>Touad\u00e9ra was also received by Kagame at Urugwiro Village where both heads of state held closed-door meeting and later witnessed the signing of four bilateral agreements before addressing members of the press.  <\/p>\n<p>These agreements were signed in the areas of mining, transport development, security and economic development.  <\/p>\n<p>As they delivered remarks, both heads of state recommitted to further strengthen bilateral ties for mutual interests.  <\/p>\n<p>On his first day in Rwanda, Touad\u00e9ra also visited the Campaign Against Genocide Museum located at the Parliament Building in Kimihurura where he received explanations on Rwanda\u2019s liberation journey.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday 6th August 2021, Touad\u00e9ra will visit the Kinigi IDP Model Village, which was inaugurated on 4th July 2021. The model village consists of homes for 144 families, a secondary school, an Early Childhood Development Center (ECD), health center and other facilities.<\/p>\n<p>Touad\u00e9ra will also tour several conservation and eco-tourism destinations before his departure on 8th August.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda and CAR have been for long enjoying cordial relations whereby Rwanda is helping the country engulfed by wars to restore peace. Rwandan troops have been deployed to CAR peacekeeping mission since 2014.<\/p>\n<p>On 20th December 2020, Rwanda deployed more special forces to CAR under existing bilateral cooperation signed in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of Touad\u00e9ra\u2019s visit, Rwanda started the deployment of an additional Infantry Battalion of 750 military personnel on Tuesday 3rd August 2021 to the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilisation Mission in Central African Republic (MINUSCA).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39141 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kag_t.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame has hosted a State Banquet in honour of his counterpart of Central African Republic, Faustin-Archange Touad\u00e9ra.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39142 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/tuwa.jpg\" alt=\"On his first day in Rwanda, Touad\u00e9ra also visited the Campaign Against Genocide Museum located at the Parliament Building in Kimihurura. \" \/><\/figure>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1041\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wl8wl44_Qfg\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1041\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ANXjXuf-rqM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1041\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/w2o2D8syGYM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1041\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Suy7zDZ_2o8\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has hosted a State Banquet in honour of his counterpart of Central African Republic, Faustin-Archange Touad\u00e9ra.} <\/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-44082","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\/44082","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=44082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44082\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44082"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44082"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}