{"id":47878,"date":"2023-04-18T08:13:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-18T08:13:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/africa-needs-to-work-together-even-more-closely-on-issues-that-matter-most-to\/"},"modified":"2023-05-04T08:18:34","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T08:18:34","slug":"africa-needs-to-work-together-even-more-closely-on-issues-that-matter-most-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/africa-needs-to-work-together-even-more-closely-on-issues-that-matter-most-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa needs to work together even more closely on issues that matter most to our people \u2013 Kagame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Head of State made the remarks in Guinea-Bissau where he arrived on Monday 17th April 2023 for a one-day working visit.   <\/p>\n<p>During his visit, President Kagame who was conferred with the Am\u00edlcar Cabral Medal, the highest distinction in Guinea-Bissau. The Am\u00edlcar Cabral Medal is attributed to the heads of state of countries that are friends of the country.   <\/p>\n<p>He expressed deep appreciation for the honour bestowed on him noting that it is a privilege for him and the country. <\/p>\n<p>On the same day, President Kagame disclosed that he had productive discussions with his counterpart, Umaro Mokhtar Sissoco Embal\u00f3 where Rwanda and Guinea-Bissau are working together to build a solid foundation for cooperation that will benefit their citizens.  <\/p>\n<p>He highlighted that human resource remains the most important one for Rwanda and Guinea-Bissau as well as the entire African continent.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike the rest of Africa, the most important resource Rwanda and Guinea-Bissau possess is a young population. Our duty is to ensure stability that allows us to create enabling environments for our youth to utilize their skills, and reach their full potential,\u201d said Kagame.<\/p>\n<p>He appreciated Umaro\u2019s efforts as chair of the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) that he applies to regional stability and elsewhere on the continent.  <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda and Guinea-Bissau enjoy long-standing relations where both countries have cooperation in the areas of trade, education, tourism and air transport.  <\/p>\n<p>Kagame also stressed the need for African countries to deepen their collaboration and reiterated commitment to boost cooperation with Guinea.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed, at a time where multilateralism is facing multiple challenges, Africa needs to work even more closely together on the issues that matter most to our people. <\/p>\n<p>We will continue working to strengthen friendship and collaboration between Rwanda and Guinea-Bissau,\u201d he affirmed.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-47369 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ft8iy23xsaankwu-08b4a-2.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame has stressed the need for African countries to strengthen their collaboration on issues that matter the most to their people.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has stressed the need for African countries to strengthen their collaboration on issues that matter the most to their people.}  <\/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-47878","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\/47878","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=47878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47878"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47878"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}