{"id":2027,"date":"2018-07-23T11:18:07","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T05:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.22.110.190\/english\/?p=2027"},"modified":"2021-01-05T03:14:04","modified_gmt":"2021-01-04T21:44:04","slug":"pm-modi-to-begin-his-five-day-visit-to-three-african-countries-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/pm-modi-to-begin-his-five-day-visit-to-three-african-countries-today\/","title":{"rendered":"PM Modi to begin his five-day visit to three African countries today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prime Minister Narendra Modi will begin his five-day state visit today to three African countries:\u00a0Rwanda,\u00a0Uganda\u00a0and\u00a0South Africa.<\/p>\n<p>The Prime Minister will first land at\u00a0Rwanda, \u201cthe first ever visit by an Indian Prime Minister\u201d a statement from the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA) said.<\/p>\n<p>The next visit to\u00a0Uganda\u00a0also marks another \u201cfirst visit by an Indian Prime Minister\u201d to the country in over 20 years, where he will be engaged from\u00a0July 24 to 25.<\/p>\n<p>From\u00a0July 25 to 27\u00a0the Prime Minister will attend the BRICS (Brazil,\u00a0Russia,\u00a0India,\u00a0China\u00a0and\u00a0South Africa) summit in\u00a0South Africa, his final visit.<\/p>\n<p>The MEA statement added, the Prime Minister\u2019s official engagement will focus on bilateral meetings with the respective Presidents of Rwanda and\u00a0Uganda, delegation-level talks, and meetings with business and the Indian communities.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Minister Modi will visit the Genocide Memorial and participate in an event on \u201cGirinka\u201d (one cow per family), a national social protection scheme of\u00a0Rwanda\u00a0initiated by Rwandan President Paul Kagame.<\/p>\n<p>A keynote address will be delivered at the Parliament of Uganda by Prime Minister Modi, a first for any Indian Prime Minister.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He will visit\u00a0\u00a0Rwanda,\u00a0Uganda\u00a0and\u00a0South Africa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":279,"featured_media":1750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"tmauthors":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2027","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/279"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2027"},{"taxonomy":"tmauthors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thebengalstory.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tmauthors?post=2027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}