{"id":46030,"date":"2022-06-20T14:37:15","date_gmt":"2022-06-20T14:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-attends-conclave-on-security-situation-in-eastern-drc\/"},"modified":"2022-06-22T07:13:38","modified_gmt":"2022-06-22T07:13:38","slug":"president-kagame-attends-conclave-on-security-situation-in-eastern-drc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-attends-conclave-on-security-situation-in-eastern-drc\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame attends conclave on security situation in eastern DRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The meeting is expected to resolve on the deployment of join regional force to restore peace in eastern DRC as requested by Kenyatta who is the incumbent Chairperson of East African Community (EAC). <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda\u2019s Presidency has revealed that Kagame attended the conclave on the security situation in eastern DRC along with Presidents Yoweri Museveni of Uganda, Evariste Ndayishimiye of Burundi, Salva Kiir Mayardit of South Sudan and Felix Tshisekedi of DRC.<\/p>\n<p>Tanzanian President, Samia Suluhu Hassan has been represented by her country\u2019s ambassador to Kenya, John Stephen Simbachawene.  <\/p>\n<p>The meeting takes place at a time when tensions continue to escalate between Rwanda and DRC. <\/p>\n<p>The latter accuses Rwanda of supporting M23 rebel group in its clashes with Congolese Army (FARDC) but Rwanda has repeatedly refuted the allegations.  <\/p>\n<p>Kenyatta recently called for urgent deployment of regional force to fight rebel groups based in eastern DRC.  <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda says that it is willing to contribute to the joint operation but DRC boycotted the support insisting that it doesn\u2019t want Rwandan troops to participate.   <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42874 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fvsezx4x0aav56a-1edc9.jpg\" alt=\"President Kenyatta (left) welcoming his counterpart of Rwanda in Kenya. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42878 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fvse0zhwqaa_qmb-fd9ae.jpg\" alt=\"President Museveni signing a guest book in Kenya. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42877 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fvse5qlx0ae6dla-a2928.jpg\" alt=\"President Ndayishimiye (right) greeting Kenyatta. He recently announced that his country is ready to send troops to restore peace in eastern DRC. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42876 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fvsfj_6xsaisz-v-1b998.jpg\" alt=\"Tshisekedi hugging Kenyatta as he arrived in Nairobi. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42875 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fvsfc0ixoaan_0i-90aa3.jpg\" alt=\"President Salva Kiir Mayardit of South Sudan also signed the guest book. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-42879 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fvsfwmcwyaabfss-2fc3a.jpg\" alt=\"The conclave on security situation in DRC is taking place for the third time.   \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has been received by his counterpart of Kenya, Uhuru Kenyatta as he arrived in the country to attend Regional Heads of State Conclave on security situation in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC).}<\/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-46030","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\/46030","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=46030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46030"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46030"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}