{"id":38536,"date":"2018-11-21T06:30:00","date_gmt":"2018-11-21T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/maj-gen-aloys-muganga-is-new-rdf-reserve-force\/"},"modified":"2018-11-21T10:45:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-21T10:45:47","slug":"maj-gen-aloys-muganga-is-new-rdf-reserve-force","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/maj-gen-aloys-muganga-is-new-rdf-reserve-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Maj Gen Aloys Muganga is new RDF Reserve Force Chief of Staff"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He replaces Gen Fred IBINGIRA who has been holding the position since 2010 according to a press statement released on the website of the Ministry of Defense.<\/p>\n<p>Aloys Muganga was promoted to the rank of Major General from the rank of Brigadier General with other 11 officers on January 12, 2018. <\/p>\n<p>The other brigadier generals who were then promoted to the rank of major general include Charles Karamba, Eric Murokore, Emmy Ruvusha, Emmanuel Bayingana, Joseph Nzabamwita, Andrew Kagame, Charles Rudakubana, Ferdinand Safari, Albert Murasira who was appointed Minister of Defense on October 19 this year, Jean-Jacques Laurent Mupenzi and Innocent Kabandana.<\/p>\n<p>The outgoing Fred Ibingira was also promoted to the rank of full General on the same date becoming the country\u2019s fourth top officer with the rank of General after Gen. James Kabarebe former Defence Minister, (now Senior Presidential Adviser on security matters), Gen. Patrick Nyamvumba (Chief of Defence Staff) and Gen. Marcel Gatsinzi (Rtd).<\/p>\n<p>{{Below is a profile of the new RDF Reserve Force Chief of Staff<br \/>\n}}<\/p>\n<p>Before Major General Aloys G. Muganga&#8217;s appointment as Ag. RFCOS, he was the Commandant of Rwanda Military Academy. His other postings include Mechanized Div Commander, Defense Liaison Officer for Rwanda at EAC, Arusha among other RDF command and staff responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>{Formal and Military Qualifications:<br \/>\n}<\/p>\n<p>-* United States of America War College (USAWC) in 2007<br \/>\n-* Senior Command and Staff Course &#8211; (KDF CSC)\u2014PSC, Kenya and other professional<br \/>\nMilitary Courses<br \/>\n-* Masters Degree in Project Management, Maastricht University, Netherlands<\/p>\n<p>Major General Aloys G. Muganga is a recipient of the National Liberation Medal, Campaign against Genocide Medal, Command Service Medal, Combat Action Medal, Foreign Campaign Medal, Presidential Inauguration Medal, Peace Support Operations Medal and Community Service Ribbons among others.<\/p>\n<p>Aloys G. Muganga is married and has a family of four children.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27610 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fullscreen_capture_11212018_102919_am-2.jpg\" alt=\"Newly appointed RDF Reserve Force Chief of Staff (RFCOS), Gen Aloys Muganga\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27608 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/gen_fred_ibi0b59-97723-43d57.png\" alt=\"Gen Fred Ibingira had served as Ag Reserve Force Chief of Staff since 2010\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President and Commander-in-Chief of the Rwanda Defence Force have appointed Maj Gen Aloys MUGANGA as Ag Reserve Force Chief of Staff (RFCOS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69],"byline":[180],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","byline-samson-iradukunda"],"bylines":[{"id":180,"name":"Samson Iradukunda","slug":"samson-iradukunda","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":24}],"contributors":[{"id":180,"name":"Samson Iradukunda","slug":"samson-iradukunda","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":24}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38536","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38536"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38536"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}