{"id":179178,"date":"2024-08-24T20:43:13","date_gmt":"2024-08-24T18:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/central-africa-why-security-in-the-great-lakes-is-critical-to-rwanda-govt-spokesperson\/"},"modified":"2024-08-24T20:43:13","modified_gmt":"2024-08-24T18:43:13","slug":"central-africa-why-security-in-the-great-lakes-is-critical-to-rwanda-govt-spokesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/central-africa-why-security-in-the-great-lakes-is-critical-to-rwanda-govt-spokesperson\/","title":{"rendered":"Central Africa: Why Security in the Great Lakes Is Critical to Rwanda &#8211; Govt Spokesperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Rwanda says it has the &#8220;most to lose&#8221; if the Great Lakes Region descends into chaos as a result of the ongoing conflict in Eastern DRC where the Congolese forces are battling M23 rebels.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">Speaking to Capital News during a recent visit to Kigali, Government Spokesperson Yolande Makolo expained the East African nation led by President Paul Kagame would do whatever it takes to ensure its safety and preserve the stability it has built since its recovery from the devastating 1994 Genocide&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408230387.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Rwanda says it has the &#8220;most to lose&#8221; if the Great Lakes Region descends into chaos as a result of the ongoing conflict in Eastern DRC where the Congolese forces are battling M23 rebels. Speaking to Capital News during a recent visit to Kigali, Government Spokesperson Yolande Makolo expained the East African nation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":179179,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,5934,7129,4357,8273,430,9414,257,4702,4586,254,7181],"class_list":["post-179178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-central","tag-critical","tag-govt","tag-great","tag-kenya-news","tag-lakes","tag-news","tag-rwanda","tag-security","tag-south-africa-today","tag-spokesperson"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=179178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/179178\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/179179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=179178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=179178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=179178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}