{"id":29393,"date":"2016-10-13T09:06:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-13T09:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/swahili-added-to-rwanda-s-official-languages\/"},"modified":"2017-02-28T18:07:34","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T18:07:34","slug":"swahili-added-to-rwanda-s-official-languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/swahili-added-to-rwanda-s-official-languages\/","title":{"rendered":"Swahili added to Rwanda\u2019s official languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{Swahili has been added to Rwanda\u2019s government official languages following yesterday\u2019s cabinet meeting which approved the draft law granting the changes.  }<\/p>\n<p>The approval of Swahili as an official language in Rwanda was made along with other resolutions where five public servants were expelled from work over gross misconduct while two senior Rwanda Defense Force officers, Major General Richard RUTATINA and Major Issa KARAMAGE were granted retirement by HE president Paul Kagame as conferred upon him by laws. <\/p>\n<p>The 5th article of Rwanda\u2019s Constitution of 2003 as amended in 2015 indicates that Kinyarwanda is the country\u2019s national language while French, English and Kinyarwanda are administrative languages. <\/p>\n<p>Rwanda adds Swahili to official languages as East African Community is undertaking  assessment on whether Swahili can be accepted as regional language.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-15706 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/arton84141.jpg\" alt=\"Swahili has been added to Rwanda\u2019s government official languages following yesterday\u2019s cabinet meeting chaired by president Paul Kagame \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Swahili has been added to Rwanda\u2019s government official languages following yesterday\u2019s cabinet meeting which approved the draft law granting the changes. } The approval of Swahili as an official language in Rwanda was made along with other resolutions where five public servants were expelled from work over gross misconduct while two senior Rwanda Defense Force [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[160],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-29393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-theophile-niyitegeka"],"bylines":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"contributors":[{"id":160,"name":"Th\u00e9ophile Niyitegeka","slug":"theophile-niyitegeka","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":3}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29393\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29393"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=29393"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=29393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}