{"id":50662,"date":"2022-08-17T13:49:40","date_gmt":"2022-08-17T13:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.bwiza.com\/2022\/08\/17\/kagame-congratulates-kenya-s-president-elect\/"},"modified":"2022-08-17T13:49:40","modified_gmt":"2022-08-17T13:49:40","slug":"kagame-congratulates-kenya-s-president-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bwiza.com\/?p=50662","title":{"rendered":"Kagame congratulates Kenya\u2019s president-elect"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame has congratulated Kenya\u2019s President-elect, William Ruto, following his victory announced on August 15.<\/p>\n<p>Ruto&#8217;s victory was announced by Kenya\u2019s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) after garnering 7,176, 141 votes, representing 50.49 per cent of the total valid votes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of the Government and People of Rwanda, I congratulate our Brothers and Sisters, the People of Kenya, for conducting peaceful elections on 9 August 2022. I also congratulate H.E. Dr William Samoei Ruto, the President-Elect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Government of Rwanda attaches great importance to the good relationship and cooperation between Kenya and Rwanda,\u201d President Kagame said in a tweet posted on Tuesday, August 16. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame has congratulated Kenya\u2019s President-elect, William Ruto, following his victory announced on August 15. Ruto&#8217;s victory was announced by Kenya\u2019s Independent Electoral and Boundaries Commission (IEBC) after garnering 7,176, 141 votes, representing 50.49 per cent of the total valid votes. \u201cOn behalf of the Government and People of Rwanda, I congratulate our Brothers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kagame congratulates Kenya\u2019s president-elect - BWIZA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/bwiza.com\/?p=50662\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kagame congratulates Kenya\u2019s president-elect - BWIZA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Paul Kagame has congratulated Kenya\u2019s President-elect, William Ruto, following his victory announced on August 15. 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