{"id":49255,"date":"2023-11-10T06:19:38","date_gmt":"2023-11-10T06:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-in-riyadh-for-the-inaugural-saudi-african-summit\/"},"modified":"2023-11-11T09:17:32","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T09:17:32","slug":"kagame-in-riyadh-for-the-inaugural-saudi-african-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-in-riyadh-for-the-inaugural-saudi-african-summit\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame in Riyadh for the inaugural Saudi-African Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As Rwanda&#8217;s Presidency revealed, Kagame arrived in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia on Thursday. <\/p>\n<p>Other heads of state expected to grace the summit include Bola Tinubu of Nigeria and Evariste Ndayishimiye of Burundi, and William Ruto of Kenya among others.  <\/p>\n<p>The first-ever Saudi-Africa summit seeks to strengthen political coordination, tackle regional security challenges, foster economic transformation through research, local development of innovative energy solutions, and promote investment cooperation. <\/p>\n<p>Following their independence in 1960, numerous African nations forged diplomatic ties with Arab countries.<\/p>\n<p>Africa and Saudi Arabia have cultivated a robust relationship, marked by trade collaboration, cultural exchanges, and other initiatives. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-61165\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/f-hyurqxwaa4jrw-f5690.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame arrived in Riyadh on Thursday for the inaugural Saudi-African Summit.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has arrived in Riyadh for the inaugural Saudi-African Summit which will take place on Friday 10th November 2023 at the King Abdulaziz International Conference Center.}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000061164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-49255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","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":{"id":2000061164,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f-hyurqxwaa4jrw-f5690.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f-hyurqxwaa4jrw-f5690.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f-hyurqxwaa4jrw-f5690.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f-hyurqxwaa4jrw-f5690.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f-hyurqxwaa4jrw-f5690.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/f-hyurqxwaa4jrw-f5690.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49255","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=49255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49255\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000061164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49255"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=49255"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=49255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}