{"id":12948,"date":"2018-06-27T11:52:26","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T11:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/?p=12948"},"modified":"2018-06-27T11:53:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-27T11:53:53","slug":"president-kagame-14th-northern-corridor-integration-projects-summit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=12948","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame attends 14th Northern Corridor Integration Projects Summit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Nairobi, 26 June 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Kagame today attended the\u00a014<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0Northern Corridor Integration Projects\u00a0(NCIP) Summit in Kenya\u2019s capital Nairobi hosted by President Kenyatta.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cI thank President Kenyatta for hosting and re-convening us after a two-year break to continue with the momentum we had started for our region, coming together and working on joint projects for the benefit of our countries and people. We had made headway in bringing government, businesses, local and foreign investors in partnership to enable these projects that are important to the development of our citizens. There is always going to be a lot of work to do but this moment provides an opportunity to re-examine what has been done and what we still need to do.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Also in attendance was\u00a0President\u00a0Museveni of Uganda and\u00a0South Sudan\u2019s\u00a0Presidential Advisor on Economic Affairs\u00a0Aggrey Tisa Sabuni who will represent President Salva Kiir.\u00a0Tanzania, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi and\u00a0Ethiopia\u00a0attended the summit as observers.<\/p>\n<p>Preceded by the Senior Officials and Ministerial Meetings, the Summit reviewed the progress made in the implementation of various commitments under the Northern Corridor Integration Projects. In addition the Summit underscored the importance of accelerating socio-economic transformation, industrialization and creation of employment opportunities for citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Northern Corridor Integration Projects Summit will be held once every four months. Respective Ministers will ensure that cluster meetings are held once every two months to effectively follow up on implementation of Summit directives.<\/p>\n<p>First held in June 2013, the\u00a0Northern Corridor is the transport corridor linking Uganda, Rwanda, South Sudan and Kenya. The Northern Corridor Integration Projects initiative is designed to fast track the implementation of the projects identified.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi, 26 June 2018 President Kagame today attended the\u00a014th\u00a0Northern Corridor Integration Projects\u00a0(NCIP) Summit in Kenya\u2019s capital Nairobi hosted by President Kenyatta. \u201cI thank President Kenyatta for hosting and re-convening us after a two-year break to continue with the momentum we had started for our region, coming together and working on joint projects for the benefit of our countries and people. We had made headway in bringing government, businesses, local and foreign investors in partnership to enable these projects that are&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12948","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\/12948","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=12948"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12951,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12948\/revisions\/12951"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}