{"id":8815,"date":"2013-07-01T06:19:39","date_gmt":"2013-07-01T06:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-attends-burundi-independence\/"},"modified":"2013-07-04T08:36:20","modified_gmt":"2013-07-04T08:36:20","slug":"president-kagame-attends-burundi-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-attends-burundi-independence\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame Attends Burundi Independence Celebrations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{Today is Rwanda\u2019s 51st Independence Day. The citizens will however, gather at Umudugudu level on July 4 (Liberation day) to jointly reflect on the country\u2019s Journey towards Independence and the protracted struggle that led to total liberation of the country from bad leadership and colonialism.}}<\/p>\n<p>The Local Government ministry calls upon Rwandans to honour the two days.  <\/p>\n<p>According to a tweet by RwandaLocalGov \u200f@RwandaLocalGov , &#8221; #Rwandans gather #Imidugudu to reflect on #Africa&#8217;s independence and #Rwanda&#8217;s journey towards self-reliance July 4 #liberation19 #Kwigira&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>However, Burundi, is also celebrating its 51st Independence Day since it shed off Belgian colonial rule.<\/p>\n<p>President Paul Kagame and Uhuru Kenyatta of Kenya are currently attending the independence celebrations in Bujumbura.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3129 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/burundi.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3130 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dscn6637.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3131 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dscn6636.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3132 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dscn6633.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3133 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dscn6639.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3134 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dscn6643.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Today is Rwanda\u2019s 51st Independence Day. The citizens will however, gather at Umudugudu level on July 4 (Liberation day) to jointly reflect on the country\u2019s Journey towards Independence and the protracted struggle that led to total liberation of the country from bad leadership and colonialism.}} The Local Government ministry calls upon Rwandans to honour the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-8815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","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":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","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\/8815","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=8815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8815"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=8815"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=8815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}