{"id":9986,"date":"2013-08-26T09:24:42","date_gmt":"2013-08-26T09:24:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-defends-trilateral-agreement\/"},"modified":"2013-08-26T09:23:58","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T09:23:58","slug":"rwanda-defends-trilateral-agreement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-defends-trilateral-agreement\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Defends Trilateral Agreement"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-3474 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/vbn-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{Rwanda has defended the recent (June 2013) trilateral deal between Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda which critics said sidelined Burundi and Tanzania.}}<\/p>\n<p>The three leaders while in Kampala Uganda, agreed to fast-track a joint railway line project, oil pipeline, adoption of national identity cards as travel documents, as well as establishment of a single tourist visa, and a single customs territory.  <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda\u2019s minister of East African Affairs, Jacqueline Muhongayire,said, \u201cFor the three countries to go trilateral, it means our presidents were forward-looking. Our citizens need tangible benefits from EAC integration and faster. <\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s why they decided to come together and implement the projects most of them already outlined in the Common Market protocol.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>The three leaders agreed to construct a railway line valued at $3.5 billion that will connect Mombasa-Kigali and Kampala.<\/p>\n<p>Leaders from the three countries are expected to meet this week in Mombasa, Kenya, to deliberate on the modalities of jointly mobilising funds to finance the projects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{Rwanda has defended the recent (June 2013) trilateral deal between Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda which critics said sidelined Burundi and Tanzania.}} The three leaders while in Kampala Uganda, agreed to fast-track a joint railway line project, oil pipeline, adoption of national identity cards as travel documents, as well as establishment of a single tourist visa, [&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":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-9986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986","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=9986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9986\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9986"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=9986"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=9986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}