{"id":54084,"date":"2025-05-03T17:48:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T17:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-attends-inauguration-of-gabon-s-brice-oligui-nguema\/"},"modified":"2025-05-05T12:02:22","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T12:02:22","slug":"president-kagame-attends-inauguration-of-gabon-s-brice-oligui-nguema","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-attends-inauguration-of-gabon-s-brice-oligui-nguema\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame attends inauguration of Gabon\u2019s Brice Oligui Nguema"},"content":{"rendered":"

The swearing-in ceremony took place on Saturday, May 3, 2025, at Stade de l\u2019Amiti\u00e9 in Libreville and drew high-level delegations from across the continent. <\/p>\n

Among the attending heads of state were Umaro Sissoco Embal\u00f3 of Guinea-Bissau, Mamadi Doumbouya of the Republic of Guinea, Adama Barrow of The Gambia, Isma\u00efl Omar Guelleh of Djibouti, Bassirou Diomaye Faye of Senegal, and Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo of Equatorial Guinea. <\/p>\n

F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo and \u00c9variste Ndayishimiye of Burundi were also present.<\/p>\n

Brice Oligui Nguema secured his mandate in elections held on April 12, following 19 months as transitional president after seizing power in a coup that ousted Ali Bongo. Over 40,000 people attended the event.<\/p>\n

President Oligui Nguema last visited Rwanda on August 10, 2024, to attend President Kagame\u2019s inauguration. Earlier, in October 2023, he paid an official visit to Rwanda and held bilateral talks with Kagame. <\/p>\n

Their discussions focused on Gabon\u2019s transitional roadmap, regional security in Africa, the Economic Community of Central African States (ECCAS), and opportunities for cooperation between Gabon and Rwanda.<\/p>\n

Gabon is rich in oil, timber, and minerals, and shares economic ties with Rwanda, particularly through air transport. RwandAir, the national carrier, operates flights to Libreville, Gabon\u2019s capital.<\/p>\n

The two nations first signed cooperation agreements in 1976, which were later revised in 2010.<\/p>\n

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President Paul Kagame has joined fellow African heads of state at the inauguration ceremony of Gabon\u2019s President, Brice Clotaire Oligui Nguema, who recently secured the presidency with 94.85% of the vote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000086698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54084","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":2000086698,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gqbm4vsxmaanklr-06d88.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gqbm4vsxmaanklr-06d88.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gqbm4vsxmaanklr-06d88.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gqbm4vsxmaanklr-06d88.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gqbm4vsxmaanklr-06d88.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/gqbm4vsxmaanklr-06d88.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54084","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=54084"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54084\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000086698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54084"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54084"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54084"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54084"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54084"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}