{"id":6052,"date":"2022-06-26T17:03:24","date_gmt":"2022-06-26T17:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugandaupdatenews.com\/?p=6052"},"modified":"2022-06-26T17:03:39","modified_gmt":"2022-06-26T17:03:39","slug":"rwanda-chogm-2022-ends-in-kigali-amid-fanfare","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/rwanda-chogm-2022-ends-in-kigali-amid-fanfare\/","title":{"rendered":"RWANDA CHOGM 2022 ENDS IN KIGALI AMID FANFARE"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Kigali Arena was filled with guests and locals for a concert that marked the end of a week long well attended Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (Chogm)\u00a0 that was hosted  by Rwanda -just-13  years after joining Mozambique in being the only countries not colonised by Britain to be admitted to the Commonwealth . At least more than  than 5,000 delegates attended the meeting in Rwanda &#8216;s capital Kigali.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At the official opening ceremony on Friday -attended by Uganda&#8217;s  President Yoweri Museveni  who was in Kigali for the first time in four years  said -\u201cthe fact of holding this meeting in Rwanda, a new member with no historical connection to the British Empire, expresses our choice to continue reimagining the Commonwealth for a changing world.\u201d Kagame said added that -&#8220;the Commonwealth we need is on the frontlines of global challenges, not on the peripheries, watching events unfold. Our special strength is to bring issues into focus that might otherwise be overlooked.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"960\" height=\"480\" data-attachment-id=\"6056\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/rwanda-chogm-2022-ends-in-kigali-amid-fanfare\/home02pix\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/home02pix.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"960,480\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"home02pix\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/home02pix.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/home02pix.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/home02pix.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6056\" srcset=\"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/home02pix.jpg 960w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/home02pix.jpg 300w, https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/home02pix.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Chogm 2022   was held under the theme, \u2018Delivering a Common Future: Connecting, Innovating, Transforming.&#8221; The Prince of Wales, who represented Queen Elizabeth II as Head of the Commonwealth, emphasise the need to \u201crespond to climate change and biodiversity loss that threatens our very existence \u2026 as we build back from the pandemic that has devastated so many lives.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other events held  included Commonwealth forums on youth, women, business and civil society. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Patricia Scotland QC retained her position as the Commonwealth secretary-general. Ms Scotland\u2014who was not backed by her native United Kingdom\u2014was re-elected with 27 votes against 24 of Jamaica\u2019s Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister Kamina Johnson.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m determined that when the role of Secretary-General rotates to Africa, two years from now I will hand on the baton with a stronger and more effective powerful Commonwealth than ever before,\u201d Ms Scotland, who in 2016 became the first woman to hold the Commonwealth secretary-general post, said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Kigali Arena was filled with guests and locals for a concert that marked the end of a week long<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6053,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[165,159],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diplomacy","category-eac-regional-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/cho.jpg","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6016,"url":"https:\/\/prowebinhost.com\/anzu\/over-40-heads-of-state-and-govts-in-kigali-rwanda-for-chogm-2022\/","url_meta":{"origin":6052,"position":0},"title":"OVER 40 HEADS OF STATE AND GOVTS IN KIGALI RWANDA FOR CHOGM 2022","author":"UgandaUpdate","date":"June 23, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Rwanda is hosting the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Kigali June 20th to 26th after being postponed due to the covid-19 pandemic . 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