{"id":56886,"date":"2026-01-19T08:45:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T08:45:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-congratulates-museveni-on-re-election\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T12:06:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T12:06:15","slug":"president-kagame-congratulates-museveni-on-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-congratulates-museveni-on-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame congratulates Museveni on re-election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The message was shared by President Kagame on his X account in the early hours of Monday, January 19, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongratulations President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on your re-election as President of the Republic of Uganda. I extend my best wishes to you and the people of Uganda as you continue to serve your nation for the prosperity of your people. I look forward to the continued strong and productive cooperation between our two countries,\u201d President Kagame wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Museveni was declared the winner of Uganda\u2019s presidential election on January 17, 2026, securing a seventh term in office following the vote held on January 15.<\/p>\n<p>Museveni won the election with 71.6 percent of the vote, defeating seven other candidates, including Robert Kyagulanyi, popularly known as Bobi Wine, who garnered 24.72 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda and Uganda maintain close relations, particularly in trade. In the third quarter of 2025, Rwanda exported goods worth $16.4 million to Uganda. The two countries also cooperate in political and military matters.<\/p>\n<p>Beyond being neighboring states, Rwanda and Uganda share ties rooted in history, culture, and various economic cooperation initiatives.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-100798\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/40293637754_4994769c62_k-54988.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame has congratulated Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on his re-election as President of the Republic of Uganda. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame has congratulated Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on his re-election as President of the Republic of Uganda, expressing his best wishes to both Museveni and the people of Uganda, and reaffirming continued cooperation between Rwanda and Uganda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000100797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","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":3}],"featured_image":{"id":2000100797,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/40293637754_4994769c62_k-54988.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/40293637754_4994769c62_k-54988.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/40293637754_4994769c62_k-54988.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/40293637754_4994769c62_k-54988.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/40293637754_4994769c62_k-54988.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/40293637754_4994769c62_k-54988.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56886","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=56886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56886\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000100797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56886"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56886"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}