{"id":45630,"date":"2022-04-11T11:57:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-11T11:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-in-congo-brazaville-for-three-day-official-visit\/"},"modified":"2022-04-12T13:19:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-12T13:19:18","slug":"kagame-in-congo-brazaville-for-three-day-official-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-in-congo-brazaville-for-three-day-official-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame in Congo Brazzaville for three-day official visit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda\u2019s Presidency has via Twitter handle revealed that President Kagame will also visit Oyo, a town in the Republic of Congo located in the Cuvette Region, more than 400 km from Brazzaville. <\/p>\n<p>In 2010, the town had more than 5 000 inhabitants. It is connected by paved road to Brazzaville, the capital of the country.<\/p>\n<p>President Kagame is accompanied by officials including the Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation, Dr. Vincent Biruta; the Minister of Finance and Economic Planning, Dr. Uzziel Ndagijimana and the CEO of Rwanda Development Board, Clare Akamanzi among others. <\/p>\n<p>A statement released recently on 9th April 2022 by Florent Ntsiba, the Director of Congo Brazzaville Presidential Cabinet indicates that Kagame\u2019s visit is a response to the invitation of his counterpart and seeks to deepen bilateral relations and cooperation.  <\/p>\n<p>Both Heads of State are also expected to proceed to a t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate discussions. The statement also reads that Kagame will address both chambers of parliament before witnessing the signing of cooperation agreements in different areas.   <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda and Brazzaville relations date back in August 1982.  Since then, both countries have enjoyed cooperation in the areas of diplomacy, politics and trade among others.  <\/p>\n<p>In November 2021, Rwanda and Brazzaville signed agreements in the areas of military cooperation, sustainable development, environmental preservation and trade promotion among others.  <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda opened embassy in the country in 2016. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41841 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fqd3vrtx0aiiyfa.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41839 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fqd3vrpxiaatz7q.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41840 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fqd3vrrxiaqhvzo.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41842 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fqd3vutxsakwx8x.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has arrived in Congo Brazzaville for a three-day State Visit where he was received by his counterpart,  Denis Sassou N\u2019Guesso upon arrival.} <\/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-45630","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\/45630","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=45630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45630\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45630"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=45630"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=45630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}