{"id":51572,"date":"2024-10-05T10:23:38","date_gmt":"2024-10-05T10:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-first-lady-attend-dinner-hosted-by-macron\/"},"modified":"2024-10-07T16:54:46","modified_gmt":"2024-10-07T16:54:46","slug":"president-kagame-first-lady-attend-dinner-hosted-by-macron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-first-lady-attend-dinner-hosted-by-macron\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame, First Lady attend dinner hosted by Macron"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The summit&#8217;s opening session took place at the historic Villers-Cotter\u00eats castle in France on October 4. A closed-door meeting of Heads of State is scheduled for Saturday, October 5. <\/p>\n<p>The summit is being held under the theme, \u201cCreating, Innovating, and Entrepreneurship in French.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on October 3, Foreign Ministers from Francophonie member states convened to discuss issues affecting member countries. <\/p>\n<p>Topics of discussion included the ongoing war in Lebanon, which is currently engaged in conflict with Israel and security challenges in Haiti among others. <\/p>\n<p>It was agreed that the next Francophonie Foreign Ministers\u2019 meeting would be held in Kigali, Rwanda, in 2025, with Rwanda being the only nation that applied to host the event.<\/p>\n<p>Several Heads of State who had initially confirmed their participation did not attend. <\/p>\n<p>These included King Mohammed VI of Morocco, who was represented by Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch, and Tunisia&#8217;s President Ka\u00efs Sa\u00efed, who was represented by Prime Minister Kamel Madouri. <\/p>\n<p>Other included Cameroon&#8217;s President Paul Biya, Senegal\u2019s President Bassirou Diomaye Faye, Congo&#8217;s President Denis Sassou Nguesso, Djibouti\u2019s President Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh, Togo\u2019s President Faure Essozimna Gnassingb\u00e9, Angola\u2019s President Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o, Equatorial Guinea\u2019s President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo, and Comoros\u2019 President Azali Assoumani, who recently survived a knife attack.<\/p>\n<p>Guinea&#8217;s President Mamadi Doumbouya also did not attend, despite Guinea recently being released from sanctions previously imposed by the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF).<\/p>\n<p>The International Organization of La Francophonie (OIF) comprises 88 member states, united by the shared goal of promoting the French language.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-75631\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dinner-hosted-by-president-emmanuel-macron-and-first-lady-brigitte-macron--lyse-palace-4-october-2024_54043227610_o-a04a8.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame arriving at the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace to attend the dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and his wife. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-75630\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dinner-hosted-by-president-emmanuel-macron-and-first-lady-brigitte-macron--lyse-palace-4-october-2024_54041914977_o-58895.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-75628\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/19th-francophonie-summit-opening-ceremony--villers-cotterts-4-october-2024_54041165552_o-1de1c.jpg\" alt=\"A closed-door meeting of Heads of State attending the 19th Francophonie Summit is scheduled for Saturday, October 5. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-75627\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/19th-francophonie-summit-opening-ceremony--villers-cotterts-4-october-2024_54041164782_o-2f7bc.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame exchanging greetings with Macron upon arrival in Paris.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-75629\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/19th-francophonie-summit-opening-ceremony--villers-cotterts-4-october-2024_54042284833_o-5d24a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the evening of Friday, October 4, President Paul Kagame and First Lady Jeannette Kagame attended a dinner hosted by French President Emmanuel Macron and First Lady Brigitte Macron. The dinner was held at the \u00c9lys\u00e9e Palace in honor of Heads of State and Government as well as other dignitaries participating in the 19th Francophonie Summit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000075626,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-51572","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":2000075626,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/dinner-hosted-by-president-emmanuel-macron-and-first-lady-brigitte-macron--lyse-palace-4-october-2024_54041914977_o-58895.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/dinner-hosted-by-president-emmanuel-macron-and-first-lady-brigitte-macron--lyse-palace-4-october-2024_54041914977_o-58895.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/dinner-hosted-by-president-emmanuel-macron-and-first-lady-brigitte-macron--lyse-palace-4-october-2024_54041914977_o-58895.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/dinner-hosted-by-president-emmanuel-macron-and-first-lady-brigitte-macron--lyse-palace-4-october-2024_54041914977_o-58895.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/dinner-hosted-by-president-emmanuel-macron-and-first-lady-brigitte-macron--lyse-palace-4-october-2024_54041914977_o-58895.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/dinner-hosted-by-president-emmanuel-macron-and-first-lady-brigitte-macron--lyse-palace-4-october-2024_54041914977_o-58895.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51572","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=51572"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51572\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000075626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51572"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51572"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51572"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=51572"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=51572"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}