{"id":14817,"date":"2019-10-07T22:38:00","date_gmt":"2019-10-07T22:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/?p=14817"},"modified":"2019-10-09T08:41:54","modified_gmt":"2019-10-09T08:41:54","slug":"president-kagame-unveils-mara-phones-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=14817","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame unveils Mara Phones Factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>Kigali, 7 October 2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cProducing smartphones is not a simple matter. Around one thousand individual components are involved. The Mara Phones plant is, therefore, a complex manufacturing operation, requiring significant technical skills and expertise. It is another milestone on our journey to high-tech, \u201cmade-in-Rwanda\u201d industry. Our world is changing fast. Keeping pace requires constant innovation. This is the path Rwanda has chosen for our development. The investment by Mara Phones Group is therefore in perfect harmony with our focus on science and technology as the key drivers of our economic transformation.\u201d President Kagame remarks at the official launch of Mara Phones manufacturing plant.<\/p>\n<p>For full speech click<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4DlVqhMDJBg\"> here\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For photo album click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/paulkagame\/albums\/72157711233786502\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kigali, 7 October 2019 \u201cProducing smartphones is not a simple matter. Around one thousand individual components are involved. The Mara Phones plant is, therefore, a complex manufacturing operation, requiring significant technical skills and expertise. It is another milestone on our journey to high-tech, \u201cmade-in-Rwanda\u201d industry. Our world is changing fast. Keeping pace requires constant innovation. This is the path Rwanda has chosen for our development. The investment by Mara Phones Group is therefore in perfect harmony with our focus on&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":14818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14817","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\/14817","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=14817"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14819,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14817\/revisions\/14819"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}