{"id":52575,"date":"2025-01-10T19:10:48","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T19:10:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-receives-message-from-zambian-counterpart\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T08:09:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T08:09:53","slug":"president-kagame-receives-message-from-zambian-counterpart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-receives-message-from-zambian-counterpart\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame receives message from Zambian counterpart"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rwandan Presidency confirmed that the message was delivered by Hichilema&#8217;s Special Envoy, Ambassador Lazarous Kapambwe, on Friday afternoon. <\/p>\n<p>However, the Presidency did not disclose any further details regarding the content of the message.<\/p>\n<p>The relationship between Rwanda and Zambia has been longstanding, marked by collaboration aimed at promoting the well-being of both countries&#8217; citizens.<\/p>\n<p>During President Kagame&#8217;s visit to Zambia in April 2022, both nations signed several bilateral agreements covering areas such as taxation, immigration, health, investment promotion, agriculture, fisheries, and livestock.<\/p>\n<p>As part of that visit, the Zambian government granted Rwanda 10,000 hectares of land for agricultural projects, reinforcing their commitment to advancing agricultural development.<\/p>\n<p>In June 2023, President Hichilema visited Rwanda at the invitation of President Kagame, accompanied by officials from various sectors, to discuss ways to further strengthen their partnership.<\/p>\n<p>The two presidents also met in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in February 2024, during the African Union summit, where they held talks to deepen bilateral ties.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-80040\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/pk-42-6e69a.jpg\" alt=\"The Rwandan Presidency confirmed that the message to President Kagame was delivered by Hichilema&#039;s Special Envoy, Ambassador Lazarous Kapambwe, on Friday afternoon. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame, on January 10, 2025, received a message from his Zambian counterpart, Hakainde Hichilema.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000080041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-52575","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 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