{"id":221058,"date":"2026-01-19T23:10:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:10:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-kagame-egypt-somalia-presidents-congratulate-museveni-on-re-election\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T23:10:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T21:10:18","slug":"egypt-kagame-egypt-somalia-presidents-congratulate-museveni-on-re-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-kagame-egypt-somalia-presidents-congratulate-museveni-on-re-election\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt: Kagame, Egypt, Somalia Presidents Congratulate Museveni On Re-Election"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Rwandan President, Paul Kagame has sent a congratulatory message to his Ugandan counterpart, Yoweri Museveni , upon re-election for a seventh term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">Museveni was on Saturday declared by the Electoral Commission as the winner of the 2026 presidential election after 71% of the votes to beat his closest rival, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu of the National Unity Platform who came second.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">In his congratulatory message, Kagame said he extends his best wishes to President Museveni as he continues to serve&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601190099.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwandan President, Paul Kagame has sent a congratulatory message to his Ugandan counterpart, Yoweri Museveni , upon re-election for a seventh term. Museveni was on Saturday declared by the Electoral Commission as the winner of the 2026 presidential election after 71% of the votes to beat his closest rival, Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu of the National [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":221059,"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":[338],"tags":[258,256,11136,4697,415,7722,7776,257,7527,13072,4690,254],"class_list":["post-221058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-congratulate","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-kagame","tag-museveni","tag-news","tag-presidents","tag-reelection","tag-somalia","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/221058","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}