{"id":44492,"date":"2021-09-28T17:50:51","date_gmt":"2021-09-28T17:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-receives-zimbabwean-minister-of-foreign-affairs-and-accompanying\/"},"modified":"2021-09-30T13:04:49","modified_gmt":"2021-09-30T13:04:49","slug":"kagame-receives-zimbabwean-minister-of-foreign-affairs-and-accompanying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-receives-zimbabwean-minister-of-foreign-affairs-and-accompanying\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame receives Zimbabwean Minister of Foreign Affairs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The three-day conference is taking place at Kigali Convention Centre from Tuesday 28th to Thursday 30th September 2021.<\/p>\n<p>As the conference kicked off, Rwanda and Zimbabwe have signed five Memoranda of Understanding (MoUs) in the areas of Information and Communication Technology and E-Government, Agriculture and Livestock Development, Tourism and Business Events, Environment and Climate Change and another between the confederation of Zimbabwe Industries and Rwanda Private Sector Federation. <\/p>\n<p>The MoUs expected to promote trade relations have been signed today at the inaugural Rwanda-Zimbabwe Trade and Investment Conference.   <\/p>\n<p>The Conference, which will include business-to-business meetings between Zimbabwean and Rwandese private sector comes at a time when the country is diversifying its export markets and products as stipulated in the National Export Strategy, launched by President Mnangagwa in 2019. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event, the Deputy CEO of Rwanda Development Board (RDB), Zephanie Niyonkuru has said that the agreement will further strengthen existing cooperation.   <\/p>\n<p>\u201cRwanda works closely with Zimbabwe in different areas of mutual interests. These include trade, investment, infrastructure, energy and air transport among others,\u201d he noted.  <\/p>\n<p>Niyonkuru also expressed optimism that signed MoUs will take cooperation to greater heights. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39644 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kagame_receives.jpg\" alt=\"Frederick Musiiwa and accompanying delegation in a group photo with President Paul  Kagame.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39645 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fayzxwkvkaqc875e-03761.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame holding talks with Frederick Musiiwa. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has today received a delegation from Zimbabwe led by Frederick Musiiwa Makamure Shava, the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Trade who is Kigali to attend the Rwanda-Zimbabwe Trade and Investment Conference.}<\/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-44492","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\/44492","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=44492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44492"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44492"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}