{"id":6130,"date":"2013-02-25T03:20:20","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T03:20:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/belgian-investors-to-come-to-rwanda-despite\/"},"modified":"2013-02-25T03:22:49","modified_gmt":"2013-02-25T03:22:49","slug":"belgian-investors-to-come-to-rwanda-despite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/belgian-investors-to-come-to-rwanda-despite\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian Investors to Come to Rwanda Despite Reynders Objection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{From 27th February to 2 March 2013, twenty Belgian investors will visit Rwanda in search of investment opportunities.}}<\/p>\n<p>Their visit is triggered by Rwanda\u2019s reputation in &#8216;Doing Business&#8217; as well as its high level of security. <\/p>\n<p>The investors will come from AWEX (Wallonia Export), BIE (Brussels Invest and Export) and FIT (Flanders International Trade).<\/p>\n<p>Belgian investors made the decision despite recommendations and instructions of the Belgian Minister for Foreign Affairs Didier Reynders, who recommended that the team should consider Burundi instead of Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Minister Reynders told investors that they will receive no help from Belgium Government if they invest in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>A Brussels Parliamentarian, Vincent Lurquin also supports the idea of Reynders.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the objections from Reynders, Belgian investors find that their interests are different from those of the Belgian political class. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These investors received visa according to legal procedure. Any other objection not about Rwanda,&#8221; said the Rwandan ambassador Robert Masozera stationed in Brussels. <\/p>\n<p>Ambassador Masozera told IGIHE that he spends 80% of his time on awareness campaign program encouraging potential investors to invest in Rwanda while at the same time supports investors who want to visit Rwanda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{From 27th February to 2 March 2013, twenty Belgian investors will visit Rwanda in search of investment opportunities.}} Their visit is triggered by Rwanda\u2019s reputation in &#8216;Doing Business&#8217; as well as its high level of security. The investors will come from AWEX (Wallonia Export), BIE (Brussels Invest and Export) and FIT (Flanders International Trade). Belgian [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[75],"byline":[592],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-6130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-homenews","byline-karirima-a-ngarambe-3"],"bylines":[{"id":592,"name":"Karirima A Ngarambe","slug":"karirima-a-ngarambe-3","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":592,"name":"Karirima A Ngarambe","slug":"karirima-a-ngarambe-3","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6130"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6130\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6130"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=6130"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=6130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}