{"id":215920,"date":"2025-12-06T22:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/congo-kinshasa-uhuru-hails-signing-of-washington-accord-as-a-new-dawn-for-dr-congo-and-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2025-12-06T22:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-06T20:15:07","slug":"congo-kinshasa-uhuru-hails-signing-of-washington-accord-as-a-new-dawn-for-dr-congo-and-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/congo-kinshasa-uhuru-hails-signing-of-washington-accord-as-a-new-dawn-for-dr-congo-and-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Congo-Kinshasa: Uhuru Hails Signing of Washington Accord, As a New Dawn for DR Congo and Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"41\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Former President Uhuru Kenyatta has lauded the signing of the Washington Peace Agreement between Democratic Republic of Congo President F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame, calling it a &#8216;new dawn&#8217; for the two nations and the wider Great Lakes region.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"35\">The accord, signed in Washington, establishes a permanent ceasefire between the two countries and outlines commitments to disarm rebel groups, facilitate the safe return of refugees, and open a new framework for&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512050398.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 Former President Uhuru Kenyatta has lauded the signing of the Washington Peace Agreement between Democratic Republic of Congo President F\u00e9lix Tshisekedi and Rwandan President Paul Kagame, calling it a &#8216;new dawn&#8217; for the two nations and the wider Great Lakes region. The accord, signed in Washington, establishes a permanent ceasefire between the two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":215921,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[3308,258,256,4554,8386,14980,6952,430,257,4702,4379,254,9543,4565],"class_list":["post-215920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-accord","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-congo","tag-congokinshasa","tag-dawn","tag-hails","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-rwanda","tag-signing","tag-south-africa-today","tag-uhuru","tag-washington"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/215920","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=215920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215920\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}