{"id":45614,"date":"2022-04-08T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-08T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-attends-ceremony-to-officially-welcome-drc-into-eac\/"},"modified":"2022-04-13T12:22:52","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T12:22:52","slug":"kagame-attends-ceremony-to-officially-welcome-drc-into-eac","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-attends-ceremony-to-officially-welcome-drc-into-eac\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame attends ceremony to officially welcome DRC into EAC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ceremony took place on Friday 8th April 2022 at Kenya\u2019s Presidential Palace in the country\u2019s capital, Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>The EAC Treaty has been signed in presence of Heads of State including Paul Kagame of Rwanda, Yoweri Kaguta museveni of Uganda and Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya who is the current chair of EAC. <\/p>\n<p>DR Congo became the seventh member of the Community on March 29 when the EAC Heads of State, during their 19th Ordinary Summit, admitted the country following recommendation by the Council of Ministers.<\/p>\n<p>Since DRC was admitted recently, leaders have hailed its entrance into the bloc, terming it an opportunity for the bloc to become even better.<\/p>\n<p>The entrance of the DR Congo into the EAC adds some 90 million people into the bloc&#8217;s already existing 177 million citizens. <\/p>\n<p>Established in 1967, the EAC is a regional intergovernmental organization, also comprising Burundi, Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, Tanzania and Uganda, with its headquarters in Arusha, Tanzania.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41778 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fpztj4jwuaetde25-83543.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41779 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fpzthjbwuaqj6297-537bb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41780 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fpztnkyxmae097d5-4c154.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has arrived in Nairobi, Kenya to attend the signing ceremony of the treaty of accession by the Democratic Republic of Congo to the East African Community (EAC).} <\/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":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-45614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45614","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=45614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45614"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=45614"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=45614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}