{"id":45332,"date":"2022-02-23T07:28:50","date_gmt":"2022-02-23T07:28:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-attends-state-luncheon-hosted-by-macky-sall\/"},"modified":"2022-02-25T06:50:03","modified_gmt":"2022-02-25T06:50:03","slug":"kagame-attends-state-luncheon-hosted-by-macky-sall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-attends-state-luncheon-hosted-by-macky-sall\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame attends State Luncheon hosted by Macky Sall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The stadium was built by a Turkish company dubbed Summa.  The latter also extecuted other mega projects including the construction of Kigali Arena, Dakar Arena among other handball courts.  <\/p>\n<p>Kagame is among dignitaries invited to attend the inauguration of  Senegal Stadium, a 50,000 seater multipurpose Olympic complex. <\/p>\n<p>The stadium will bear the name of former President Abdoulaye Wade who accepted the decision taken by President Macky Sall.<\/p>\n<p>Other Heads of State who attended the ceremony include Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey. Erdogan\u2019s visit reinforces his country\u2019s willingness to expand investment in Africa.  <\/p>\n<p>Erdogan went to Senegal after visiting the Democratic Republic of Congo.  The next destination on his itinerary is Guinea-Bissau. <\/p>\n<p>George Weah, the President of Liberia, Umaro Sissoco Embal\u00f3 of Guinea Bissau and Adama Barrow of Gambia , FIFA President Gianni Infantino and CAF President  Patrice Motsepe were also present.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41088 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fmnxwq0x0akm5e2b-8ca55.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame chatting with other dignitaries who attended the State Luncheon.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41087 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fmnxwqxx0akz7f0e-1e1e5.jpg\" alt=\"President Macky Sall welcoming his counterpart o f Rwanda, Paul Kagame.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41086 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fmnxwquxwa4t43dd-e721a.jpg\" alt=\"A guard of honour was mounted to welcome President Kagame. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has attended a State Luncheon hosted by the President of Senegal, Macky Sall in honour of visiting Heads of State who went to Dakar for the inauguration of Stade Abdoulaye Wade.}<\/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-45332","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\/45332","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=45332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45332"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=45332"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=45332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}