{"id":38721,"date":"2019-01-04T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-04T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/mushikiwabo-assumes-office-as-oif-general\/"},"modified":"2019-01-07T09:19:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-07T09:19:08","slug":"mushikiwabo-assumes-office-as-oif-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/mushikiwabo-assumes-office-as-oif-general\/","title":{"rendered":"Mushikiwabo assumes Office as OIF General Secretary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mushikiwabo who served as the Rwandan Minister of Foreigner Affairs was elected on the 12th October 2018  by 40 head of states and governments, who attended the 17th summit of the OIF that took place in Yerevan, Armenia. <\/p>\n<p>According to the official twitter handle of La Francophinie , the handover from Micha\u00eblle Jean who served as the General Secretary for the last four years to Mushikiwabo happened this Thursday in Paris France.<\/p>\n<p>She assumes offices weeks after President Paul Kagame named D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Nyaruhirira who is an advisor in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ambassador, where it is expected that he will step in as advisor of the new Secretary General of La Francophonie (OIF). <\/p>\n<p>In the past days, the Ambassador-Designate worked very closely with Louise Mushikiwabo, even when she was still a Minister, mostly during the state visits she held while she was campaigning as the Secretary-General of La Francophonie.<\/p>\n<p>Jeune Afrique wrote that Mushikiwabo had already chosen to bring two close collaborators; D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Nyaruhirira, who should be his special advisor and Oria Kije Vande Weghe, her Spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Mushikiwabo is the 4th person to serve as the General Secretary of La Francophonie after the late  Boutros Boutros-Ghali, Abdou Diouf and Micha\u00eblle Jean.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-27945 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kuri_uyu_wa_kane_michaelle_jean_yahererekanyije_ububasha_na_louise_mushikiwabo_wamusimbuye-bbb57.jpg\" alt=\"Louise Mushikiwabo assumes Office as La Francophonie(OIF) General Secretary \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost three months after being elected as the General Secretary of the Oganization Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), Louise Mushikiwabo assumes office.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[133],"byline":[2928],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-main-featured-home","byline-marie-ange-mukaneza-3"],"bylines":[{"id":2928,"name":"Marie-Ange Mukaneza","slug":"marie-ange-mukaneza-3","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2928,"name":"Marie-Ange Mukaneza","slug":"marie-ange-mukaneza-3","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38721","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\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38721"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38721"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}