{"id":56085,"date":"2024-04-07T13:46:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-07T13:46:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-jets-to-kigali-rwanda-to-attend-1994-genocide-anniversary"},"modified":"2024-04-07T14:40:46","modified_gmt":"2024-04-07T14:40:46","slug":"kiir-jets-to-kigali-rwanda-to-attend-1994-genocide-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-jets-to-kigali-rwanda-to-attend-1994-genocide-anniversary","title":{"rendered":"Kiir jets to Kigali, Rwanda to attend 1994 Genocide Anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. <\/strong><\/span>President Salva Kiir and Chairperson of the East African Community on Saturday afternoon traveled to the Rwandan capital, Kigali to attend the commemoration of 30th Anniversary of the Rwandan genocide due Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>April 7, is annually marked as the Rwandan genocide, where 500,000 to one million Rwandan lives were taken in a 100-day mass killing campaign directed at Rwanda\u2019s minority Tutsi community.<\/p>\n<p>South Sudan is estimated to have lost more than 400,00 lives during the 2013-2016 violent conflicts.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Presidential Affairs Minister, the head of EAC, \u201d is expected to meet his Rwandan Counterpart Paul Kagame and other leaders to discuss ways to promote peace and reconciliation in the region as well as the need for ongoing efforts to prevent such atrocities from happening anywhere in Africa.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kiir \u201cwas seen off at Juba International Airport by First Vice President Dr Riek Machar Teny and other senior government official,\u201d according to his press office.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\">South-Sudan<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Sudan. President Salva Kiir and Chairperson of the East African Community on Saturday afternoon traveled to the Rwandan capital, Kigali to attend the commemoration of 30th Anniversary of the Rwandan genocide due Sunday. April 7, is annually marked as the Rwandan genocide, where 500,000 to one million Rwandan lives were taken in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":56084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,12],"tags":[234,265,233],"class_list":["post-56085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-south-sudan","tag-south-sudan"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kiir jets to Kigali, Rwanda to attend 1994 Genocide Anniversary - South Sudan<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"President Salva Kiir and Chairperson of the East African Community on Saturday afternoon traveled to the Rwandan capital ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-jets-to-kigali-rwanda-to-attend-1994-genocide-anniversary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kiir jets to Kigali, Rwanda to attend 1994 Genocide Anniversary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"President Salva Kiir and Chairperson of the East African Community on Saturday afternoon traveled to the Rwandan capital ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-jets-to-kigali-rwanda-to-attend-1994-genocide-anniversary\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"South Sudan\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2024-04-07T13:46:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-04-07T14:40:46+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2024\/04\/sm_1712488141.905184.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1920\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"760\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-jets-to-kigali-rwanda-to-attend-1994-genocide-anniversary#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-jets-to-kigali-rwanda-to-attend-1994-genocide-anniversary\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Kiir jets to Kigali, Rwanda to attend 1994 Genocide Anniversary\",\"datePublished\":\"2024-04-07T13:46:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-04-07T14:40:46+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-jets-to-kigali-rwanda-to-attend-1994-genocide-anniversary\"},\"wordCount\":173,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-jets-to-kigali-rwanda-to-attend-1994-genocide-anniversary#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/sites\/32\/2024\/04\/sm_1712488141.905184.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-South-Sudan\",\"South-Sudan\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"policy\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-jets-to-kigali-rwanda-to-attend-1994-genocide-anniversary#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-jets-to-kigali-rwanda-to-attend-1994-genocide-anniversary\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-sudan\/all-news\/kiir-jets-to-kigali-rwanda-to-attend-1994-genocide-anniversary\",\"name\":\"Kiir jets to Kigali, Rwanda to attend 1994 Genocide Anniversary - 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