{"id":45300,"date":"2022-02-18T07:33:28","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T07:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/good-politics-and-governance-are-like-a-healthy-human-body-kagame\/"},"modified":"2022-02-22T08:44:24","modified_gmt":"2022-02-22T08:44:24","slug":"good-politics-and-governance-are-like-a-healthy-human-body-kagame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/good-politics-and-governance-are-like-a-healthy-human-body-kagame\/","title":{"rendered":"Good politics and governance are like a healthy human body \u2013 Kagame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The two-day EU-AU Summit kicked off on Thursday 17th February 2022.  <\/p>\n<p>On the first day of the summit, Rwanda\u2019s Presidency has revealed, President Kagame attended the roundtable discussion on peace, security and governance where leaders discussed the need for a new approach towards addressing security challenges and achieving sustainable peace.  <\/p>\n<p>The Head of State said that bad governance is the root cause of conflicts that fuel insecurity and stressed the need for special attention to uphold peace and security.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere is no way to build sustainable peace and security, both within and between our continents, without putting governance at the centre. We need new thinking and new templates for joint action on counterterrorism and peace support operations,\u201d he noted.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cGood politics and governance are like a healthy human body. Where governance is compromised, it is like having a weak immune system which is vulnerable to all kinds of opportunistic infections or attacks,\u201d Kagame added.  <\/p>\n<p>In consideration of the fact that threats are transnational, the President stressed the need for joint action.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot afford to stand aside and watch when the lives of innocent civilians are at risk. Europe\u2019s stability is also at stake. We are neighbours and the threats are transnational and cross-border,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>Kagame underscored that a blended bilateral and multilateral approach is a flexible formula that is well-suited \u2018to our present challenges\u2019 noting that a more predictable and sustainable international financing system for bilateral and regional military interventions is needed.  <\/p>\n<p>He however observed that no amount of troops or funding can create sustainable peace. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must simultaneously address the shortfalls in governance, which are the root cause of insecurity,\u201d Kagame said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe want a relationship between the European Union and the African Union that is meaningful and produces concrete results. We need each other, and that means working as full partners,\u201d he added.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41034 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kagame_europe.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame is among Heads of State who attended the two-day European Union - African Union Summit. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41035 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fl0h9iexsauh64ce-2e048.jpg\" alt=\"The two-day EU-AU Summit kicked off on Thursday 17th February 2022.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame who attended the European Union (EU) \u2013 African Union (AU) Summit held in Belgium has said that promoting good governance is the key for sustainable peace and security on both continents.} <\/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-45300","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\/45300","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=45300"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45300\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45300"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45300"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45300"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=45300"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=45300"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}