{"id":51062,"date":"2024-07-23T15:53:04","date_gmt":"2024-07-23T15:53:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/african-union-boss-commends-rwanda-for-free-and-fair-polls\/"},"modified":"2024-07-25T08:15:13","modified_gmt":"2024-07-25T08:15:13","slug":"african-union-boss-commends-rwanda-for-free-and-fair-polls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/african-union-boss-commends-rwanda-for-free-and-fair-polls\/","title":{"rendered":"African Union boss commends Rwanda for ‘free and fair polls’"},"content":{"rendered":"

The AU chief made the comments while congratulating President Paul Kagame on his re-election in the recently concluded general election.<\/p>\n

\u201cH.E. Moussa Faki Mahamat warmly congratulates President Paul Kagame upon his brilliant re-election as Head of state following the announcement of the official presidential and legislative election results by the Rwandan National Elections Commission on 22 July 2024,\u201d a statement issued by AUC on Tuesday, July 23, 2024, reads in part.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe Chairperson also commended the Government and the National Elections Commission for the successful organization and conduct of the elections judged to be peaceful, transparent, free and fair by both national and international observers, including the joint African Union\/COMESA Election Observation Mission.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Faki, the Rwandan authorities\u2019 self-financing of the entire electoral process illustrates strong national ownership and commitment to the country\u2019s democratic and governance credentials.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Togolese counterpart Faure Gnassingb\u00e9 also joined other world leaders on Tuesday in congratulating Kagame for his landslide victory.<\/p>\n

In his message to President Kagame, Jinping highlighted that Rwanda has traditionally been a friendly nation to China. He noted that in recent years, relations between China and Rwanda have developed rapidly, yielding fruitful results in various sectors and deepening their traditional friendship.<\/p>\n

He committed to working with President Kagame to further enhance mutual political trust and to expand and deepen practical cooperation in various fields.<\/p>\n

President Gnassingbe, on his part, said Kagame\u2019s re-election reflects the renewed confidence of the Rwandan people in the RPF Inkotanyi leader\u2019s leadership and vision for the country.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope that this new term will strengthen the ongoing cooperation between our countries and the fraternity between our peoples,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Kagame secured a landslide victory in last week\u2019s general election, garnering 99.18% of the votes. His opponents, Dr. Frank Habineza of the Democratic Green Party of Rwanda and independent candidate Philippe Mpayimana, received 0.50% and 0.32% of the votes, respectively.<\/p>\n

\"AU<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Moussa Faki, the Chairperson of the African Union Commission (AUC), has commended the people of Rwanda and the government for conducting peaceful, free, and fair presidential and parliamentary elections. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000073141,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[192],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-51062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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":2000073141,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/17758464_10154198770212282_4956836171987952051_o.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/17758464_10154198770212282_4956836171987952051_o.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/17758464_10154198770212282_4956836171987952051_o.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/17758464_10154198770212282_4956836171987952051_o.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/17758464_10154198770212282_4956836171987952051_o.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/17758464_10154198770212282_4956836171987952051_o.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51062","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=51062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51062\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000073141"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51062"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=51062"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=51062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}