{"id":44173,"date":"2021-08-17T16:44:32","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T16:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-chairs-presidential-advisory-council-meeting\/"},"modified":"2023-11-16T13:51:23","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T13:51:23","slug":"kagame-chairs-presidential-advisory-council-meeting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-chairs-presidential-advisory-council-meeting\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame chairs Presidential Advisory Council meeting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting brought together Rwandan and International experts who offer strategic advice to the President and the government.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting was attended by cabinet members including the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Dr.  Vincent Biruta; the Minister of Health,  Dr.  Daniel Ngamije;  Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr.  Uzziel Ndagijimana; Minister of Infrastructure, Claver Gatete and the Minister of Trade and Industry, Beata Uwamaliza Habyarimana. <\/p>\n<p>Also present at the meeting were Louise Mushikiwabo, the Secretary-General of the Organisation internationale de la Francophonie and the Governor of the National Bank of Rwanda, John Rwangombwa among others.  <\/p>\n<p>International experts who attended include Ashish Thakkar, the Founder of Mara Group which established phones manufacturing plant in Rwanda;  Dale Dawson,  the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Bridge2Rwanda.The latter is a foundation formed to help expand Rwanda\u2019s global network of friends, to encourage foreign direct investment and to create opportunities for Rwandan students to study abroad.<\/p>\n<p>The council also hosted Kaia Miller, Mauro De Lorenzo, Joseph Ritchie, Michel Roux, Dave King, Paul Davenport, Rod Reynolds, Pastor Rick Warren, Scott Ford and Christian Angermayer.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39249 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kagame_kuri_uyu_mugoroba_yayoboye_inama_y_urwego_ngishwanama_rwa_perezida.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame has chaired a Presidential Advisory Council meeting.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39250 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/iyi_nama_yitabiriwe_n_impuguke_mu_ngeri_zitandukanye_zirimo_abanyarwanda_n_abanyamahanga.jpg\" alt=\"The meeting brought together Rwandan and International experts who offer strategic advice to the President and the government.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has chaired a Presidential Advisory Council (PAC) meeting to discuss various topics including the COVID-19 pandemic and current affairs, the Presidency has revealed via Twitter handle.}  <\/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-44173","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\/44173","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=44173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44173\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44173"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44173"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}