Prof. Jean Pierre Dusingizemungu and Evode Uwizeyimana have been reappointed for another term, while Dr. Valentine Uwamariya and Alfred Gasana join the Senate as new members.
The appointments were made in accordance with Article 80 of the Constitution.
Dr. Valentine holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry from the former National University of Rwanda (NUR), a Master’s degree in Chemistry from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa (2005), and a PhD in Water Science and Environmental Technology from UNESCO-IHE and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands (2013).
Dr. Uwamariya previously served as the Deputy Vice Chancellor in Charge of training, Institutional Development and Research at Rwanda Polytechnic (RP) before being appointed Minister of Education in December 2020.
In 2023, Dr. Uwamariya was appointed Minister of Gender and Family Promotion, and the following year, she became Minister of Environment.
On July 24, 2025, Dr. Uwamariya was replaced by Dr. Bernadette Arakwiriye as Minister of Environment. Since then, she has not held any government position.
Alfred Gasana was appointed Minister of Interior in December 2021, a portfolio that had last existed in the Rwandan Government in April 2020 under Gen Patrick Nyamvumba.
Before joining the Cabinet, Gasana served as a Member of Parliament in the Chamber of Deputies, where he was part of the Political Affairs and Legal Committee in 2010.
In June 2024, he was appointed Rwanda’s Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, succeeding Ambassador Olivier Nduhungirehe, who had been named Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.
Evode Uwizeyimana is a Senator in the Parliament of Rwanda, appointed by President Kagame in October 2020. He holds a Master’s degree in Law.
From 2016 to 2020, Uwizeyimana served as State Minister in the Ministry of Justice in charge of Constitutional and Legal Affairs.
Between 2014 and 2016, he was Vice Chairperson of the Law Reform Commission and also served on the committee that reviewed Rwanda’s Constitution in 2015.
Prof. Jean Pierre Dusingizemungu holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and has been a Senator since October 2020.
For many years, he served as President of IBUKA, the umbrella organization representing survivors of the 1994 tragedy against the Tutsi.
From 1994 to December 2010, he was a lecturer in Psychology at the former National University of Rwanda.
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