{"id":12765,"date":"2018-04-27T23:19:25","date_gmt":"2018-04-27T23:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/?p=12765"},"modified":"2018-04-28T07:31:09","modified_gmt":"2018-04-28T07:31:09","slug":"president-kagame-attends-2018-ibrahim-governance-weekend-leadership-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=12765","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame attends 2018 Ibrahim Governance Weekend Leadership Ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Kigali, 27 April 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Kagame this evening took part in the 2018 Ibrahim Governance Weekend \u2013 Leadership Ceremony, during which the 2017 Laureate of the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was recognized.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the event, President Kagame highlighted that African leaders share the conviction that accountable governance and service delivery are the core responsibilities of government.<\/p>\n<p>The President congratulated Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for her selection as the 2017 Ibrahim Prize Laureate and noted that the Prize committee\u2019s choice recognizes her achievements in leading Liberia through a particularly consequential period of its history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeadership is both a privilege and a duty.\u00a0It is best measured in terms of concrete results\u00a0that citizens can feel in their everyday lives\u00a0as well as\u00a0in the level of trust\u00a0that they have in public institutions. During our time in office, we must work as hard as we can\u00a0to do the right things for our people\u2019s future, no matter how difficult,\u201d President Kagame said.<\/p>\n<p>Underway in Kigali, the 2018 Ibrahim Governance Weekend is a flagship three-day\u00a0event of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>In attendance also were President Alassane Ouattara of C\u00f4te d\u2019Ivoire, former President of Cape Verde, Pedro Pires, former President of Ireland, Mary Robinson, former Ethiopian Prime Minister Hailemariam Desalegn, former President of Germany, Horst Kohler, as well as former Secretary-General of the Organisation of the African Union (now African Union) and Mo Ibrahim Leadership Prize Committee Member Salim Ahmed Salim.<\/p>\n<p>The event convenes prominent African political and business leaders, representatives\u00a0of\u00a0civil society organizations, multilateral and regional institutions,\u00a0as well as\u00a0key\u00a0international partners to debate issues of critical importance to the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kigali, 27 April 2018 President Kagame this evening took part in the 2018 Ibrahim Governance Weekend \u2013 Leadership Ceremony, during which the 2017 Laureate of the Ibrahim Prize for Achievement in African Leadership, former Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, was recognized. Speaking at the event, President Kagame highlighted that African leaders share the conviction that accountable governance and service delivery are the core responsibilities of government. The President congratulated Ellen Johnson Sirleaf for her selection as the 2017 Ibrahim Prize&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12763,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12765","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","post-has-thumbnail"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12765"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12769,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12765\/revisions\/12769"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}