{"id":45017,"date":"2021-12-22T10:30:56","date_gmt":"2021-12-22T10:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-participates-in-extraordinary-summit-of-east-african-community-heads-of\/"},"modified":"2021-12-22T16:56:10","modified_gmt":"2021-12-22T16:56:10","slug":"kagame-participates-in-extraordinary-summit-of-east-african-community-heads-of","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-participates-in-extraordinary-summit-of-east-african-community-heads-of\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame participates in Extraordinary Summit of East African Community Heads of State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The summit was preceded by the 45th extraordinary meeting of the EAC Council of Ministers.  <\/p>\n<p>The summit left regional presidents giving consent for the conclusion of negotiations that will see the Democratic Republic of Congo join the East African Community (EAC).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe summit directed the Council to expeditiously commence and conclude negotiations with the DRC for admission to the East African Community and report to the next summit,\u201d reads part of a communique released after the meeting.<\/p>\n<p>The Heads of State also directed the EAC Secretariat to make a report on proposals to amend sections of the EAC Treaty that deal with the quorum at meetings.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe summit considered the proposal to amend rule 11 of the rules of procedure for the summit of the heads of state or government and directed the Secretariat to convene an extraordinary meeting of the sectoral council on legal and judicial affairs to deliberate and advise on this proposal for consideration by the next summit which shall consider and conclude on this matter.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The DRC applied for admission into East African Community in June 2019. <\/p>\n<p>Today\u2019s meeting, led by EAC Chair President Uhuru Kenyatta also observed a moment of silence in honour of former Tanzania President John Magafuli, who died in March 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Other Heads of State present at the summit include; Uhuru Kenyatta (Kenya), Samia Suluhu (Tanzania), Yoweri Museveni (Uganda). <\/p>\n<p>Burundi was represented by Vice President Prosper Bazombanza, Deng Kuol (also Minister of EAC Affairs) represented South Sudan.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-40431 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kagame-76jpg6c1a-fe7a9.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame has participated in the virtual 18th Extraordinary Summit of the East African Community Heads of State. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has participated in the virtual 18th Extraordinary Summit of the East African Community Heads of State, chaired by President Uhuru Kenyatta. Themed \u2018Deepening Integration, Widening Cooperation\u2019, the summit examined the request of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to join the regional bloc.}<\/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-45017","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\/45017","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=45017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45017\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45017"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=45017"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=45017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}