{"id":14342,"date":"2019-03-30T15:33:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-30T15:33:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/?p=14342"},"modified":"2019-03-30T15:33:49","modified_gmt":"2019-03-30T15:33:49","slug":"president-kagame-joins-kicukiro-district-residents-in-umuganda-ahead-of-25th-genocide-commemoration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=14342","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame joins Kicukiro District residents in Umuganda ahead of 25th genocide commemoration"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p><strong>Kigali, 30 March 2019<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>President Kagame today joined residents of Kicukiro District to undertake this month\u2019s Umuganda, which involved cleaning up the Nyanza genocide memorial situated in the district. Participating in the Umuganda also were members of the Council of Ministers and Heads of Organs and Institutions of the East African Community, EAC, who concluded a strategic retreat yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>In his address, President Kagame called on cooperation between people of the region:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we work together, we achieve more and go even further. Whenever you travel in the East African community, whether Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Tanzania, South Sudan, when you find them doing work to transform their country, join them. We want to join hands and work together in Rwanda, in East Africa and across the whole continent. We believe in cooperation and working together. Those are the values we stand for.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This month\u2019s Umuganda comes at a time when Rwandans are gearing up for the 25<sup>th<\/sup> commemoration of the genocide against the Tutsi.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kigali, 30 March 2019 President Kagame today joined residents of Kicukiro District to undertake this month\u2019s Umuganda, which involved cleaning up the Nyanza genocide memorial situated in the district. Participating in the Umuganda also were members of the Council of Ministers and Heads of Organs and Institutions of the East African Community, EAC, who concluded a strategic retreat yesterday. In his address, President Kagame called on cooperation between people of the region: &#8220;When we work together, we achieve more and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14343,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14342","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\/14342","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=14342"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14344,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14342\/revisions\/14344"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}