{"id":38832,"date":"2019-02-06T17:16:57","date_gmt":"2019-02-06T17:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-promotes-16-air-force-officers\/"},"modified":"2019-02-06T17:02:20","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T17:02:20","slug":"kagame-promotes-16-air-force-officers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-promotes-16-air-force-officers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame promotes 16 air force officers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a statement released yesterday by the Ministry of Defense, all the 16 officers promoted graduated from the General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University in Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n<p>The corporals skipped six ranks while those promoted from the rank of private skipped seven ranks up to the rank of Lieutenant.<\/p>\n<p>The 16 officers promoted to the rank of Lieutenant join other 663 RDF officers whose promotion from the rank of second-Lieutenant to Lieutenant was approved by the cabinet meeting in August 8, last year. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28113 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/president_kagame_also_rwanda_defense_force_commander-in-chief_adressing_the_army_at_gako.jpg\" alt=\"President Kagame also the Commander in Chief of the Rwanda Defence Force addressing the military officers at Rwanda Military Academy Gako on December 11, 2018\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame and Commender-in-Chief of Rwanda Defence Force has commissioned and promoted 16 Air Force Non-Commissioned officers (10 Corporals and six privates) to the rank of Lieutenant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","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":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38832","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38832"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38832"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}