{"id":50639,"date":"2024-05-12T08:50:49","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T08:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-in-senegal-for-key-talks-with-president-faye\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T12:06:04","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T12:06:04","slug":"kagame-in-senegal-for-key-talks-with-president-faye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-in-senegal-for-key-talks-with-president-faye\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame in Senegal for key talks with President Faye"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Head of State was welcomed with full military honour on his first working visit to the country since President Faye was sworn in as Senegal\u2019s fifth President on April 2, 2024.<\/p>\n

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President Kagame has arrived in Dakar where he is received by President Bassirou Diomaye Faye @PR_Diomaye<\/a>, and members of the cabinet. pic.twitter.com\/QsEI5G1D2J<\/a><\/p>\n

— Presidency | Rwanda (@UrugwiroVillage) May 11, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

President Kagame is scheduled to hold talks with his Senegalese counterpart on strengthening fraternal and cooperation relations between the two countries.<\/p>\n

The two Heads of State are also expected to attend the Basketball Africa League (BAL) game between Senegal\u2019s AS Douanes and Rwanda\u2019s APR, ahead of playoffs and finals set to be held in Kigali from May 24 to June 1.<\/p>\n

Faye, 44, became the youngest man elected president in Senegal, after defeating main rival and ruling party coalition candidate Amadou Ba and winning the election with over 54% of the vote<\/p>\n

The former tax inspector\u2019s candidature was backed by prominent opposition figure Ousmane Sonko. Sonko endorsed Faye for the presidential seat after being barred from vying.<\/p>\n

After his victory, Faye appointed Sonko as the country\u2019s Prime Minister and pledged to restore stability and bring economic progress in the country.<\/p>\n

Faye participated in the election barely two weeks after being released from prison in Dakar.<\/p>\n

He had in April last year been charged with several offences, including contempt of court, after broadcasting a message critical of the judiciary in legal cases against Sonko.<\/p>\n

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President Paul Kagame arrived in Senegal on Saturday evening to a warm reception from newly elected President Bassirou Diomaye Faye.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000066712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[75],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-50639","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-48","tag-homenews","byline-wycliffe-nyamasege"],"bylines":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","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":131}],"contributors":[{"id":192,"name":"Wycliffe Nyamasege","slug":"wycliffe-nyamasege","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":131}],"featured_image":{"id":2000066712,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gnusvsrxsaatw6x.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gnusvsrxsaatw6x.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gnusvsrxsaatw6x.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gnusvsrxsaatw6x.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gnusvsrxsaatw6x.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gnusvsrxsaatw6x.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50639","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\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000066712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50639"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=50639"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=50639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}