{"id":48518,"date":"2023-07-21T08:19:57","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T08:19:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-of-congo-brazzaville-awaited-in-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T12:13:08","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T12:13:08","slug":"president-of-congo-brazzaville-awaited-in-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-of-congo-brazzaville-awaited-in-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"President of Congo Brazzaville awaited in Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The development has been announced by the Republic of Congo\u2019s Presidency via Twitter handle. <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda and Brazzaville relations date back to August 1982. Since then, both countries have enjoyed cooperation in the areas of diplomacy, politics and trade among others.<\/p>\n<p>President Kagame was last in Congo Brazzaville in April 2022 for a three-day working visit. <\/p>\n<p>On the second day of the visit, Kagame and his counterpart proceeded to a t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eate discussions and presided over the signing of bilateral agreements in sectors of economic partnership, mining, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) handcrafts, culture and arts.<\/p>\n<p>At the time,  both countries agreed on establishing a joint commission to oversee the implementation of signed agreements. <\/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>Among others; Rwanda\u2019s national carrier, RwandAir has been operating flights to Congo Brazzaville since 2011.  <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda opened an embassy in the country in 2016.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-58277\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/congo-6.jpg\" alt=\"The President of Congo Brazzaville, Denis Sassou Nguesso (right) with President Kagame during his visit to the country last year. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-58276\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/51998382514_ff919fc765_b-7d8a6-65241.jpg\" alt=\"The President of Congo Brazzaville, Denis Sassou Nguesso is awaited in Rwanda. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The President of Congo Brazzaville, Denis Sassou Nguesso is awaited in Rwanda for a two-day visit expected to begin on 21st July 2023.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000058275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-48518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","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":{"id":2000058275,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/congo.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/congo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/congo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/congo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/congo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/congo.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48518","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=48518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000058275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48518"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=48518"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=48518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}