{"id":15217,"date":"2020-02-08T23:10:01","date_gmt":"2020-02-08T23:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paulkagame.com\/?p=15217"},"modified":"2020-02-11T07:20:03","modified_gmt":"2020-02-11T07:20:03","slug":"president-kagame-elected-as-chairperson-of-the-auda-nepad-hsgoc-addis-ababa-8-february-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/?p=15217","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame elected as Chairperson of the AUDA-NEPAD HSGOC | Addis Ababa, 8 February 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cI can only pledge to do my best, in concert with all of you, to uphold this organ\u2019s founding principles. NEPAD\u2019s distinctive outlook makes it uniquely relevant to Africa\u2019s development trajectory. That is why the NEPAD Planning and Coordination Agency has become the African Union Development Agency (AUDA). We owe a debt of gratitude to NEPAD\u2019s initiating members, as well as my immediate predecessor, President Macky Sall, for the vision, dedication, and service that have broug<span class=\"text_exposed_show\">ht us to this point.\u201d President Kagame acceptance remarks as newly elected Chairperson of the AUDA-NEPAD HSGOC | Addis Ababa, 8 February 2020.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>To view more photos click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/paulkagame\/albums\/72157713024992708\">here\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>To watch the full speech click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ls6j0JzRHAg\">here\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI can only pledge to do my best, in concert with all of you, to uphold this organ\u2019s founding principles. NEPAD\u2019s distinctive outlook makes it uniquely relevant to Africa\u2019s development trajectory. That is why the NEPAD Planning and Coordination Agency has become the African Union Development Agency (AUDA). We owe a debt of gratitude to NEPAD\u2019s initiating members, as well as my immediate predecessor, President Macky Sall, for the vision, dedication, and service that have brought us to this point.\u201d&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":15218,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15217","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\/15217","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=15217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15219,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15217\/revisions\/15219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulkagame.rw\/2025\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}