{"id":4561,"date":"2011-08-09T09:24:29","date_gmt":"2011-08-09T09:24:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/?p=4561"},"modified":"2011-08-09T09:24:29","modified_gmt":"2011-08-09T09:24:29","slug":"biruta-meets-rwandan-diaspora-in-malawi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/2011\/08\/09\/biruta-meets-rwandan-diaspora-in-malawi\/","title":{"rendered":"Biruta meets Rwandan Diaspora in Malawi"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4562\" style=\"width: 260px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/enate-Presdient.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4562\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4562\" title=\"enate-Presdient\" src=\"http:\/\/www.faceofmalawi.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/enate-Presdient.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4562\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Senate Presdient Vincent Biruta is in Malawi for the CPA meet. The New Times \/File<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The President of the Senate, Dr. Vincent Biruta, Sunday held talks with the Rwandan community in Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>During the meeting, he highlighted the country\u2019s development programs in the areas of health, poverty eradication strategies and gender equality among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese programs are in line with the country\u2019s vision of achieving the Millennium Development Goals (MDG\u2019s) and the Vision 2020,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Biruta called upon the Rwandan Diaspora to be patriotic and always put their country at heart in whatever they do.<\/p>\n<p>He disclosed that Rwandans wishing to return home would be facilitated while urging them to invest in their motherland. He also briefed them on the upcoming senatorial polls in September.<\/p>\n<p>Top among the challenges underscored by the Rwandan community in the Southern African nation was the need for an embassy in Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>Others were inadequate resources to travel back to Rwanda to first assess the situation before repatriating with their families.<\/p>\n<p>Biruta is leading a Rwandan delegation to Lilongwe, the Malawian Capital, to attend the 13th Conference of Speakers and Presiding Officers of the Commonwealth Parliamentary Association\/Africa Region (CPA\/AR).<\/p>\n<p>The forum that was formally opened by Malawian President Bingu wa Mutharika yesterday, brings together delegates from 19 African states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of the Senate, Dr. Vincent Biruta, Sunday held talks with the Rwandan community in Malawi. During the meeting, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4562,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[1058,671,1059],"class_list":["post-4561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-well-being","tag-dispora","tag-rwanda","tag-vincent-biruta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.faceofmalawi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}