{"id":39139,"date":"2019-04-10T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-10T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-makes-changes-in-rdf\/"},"modified":"2019-04-11T10:30:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-11T10:30:12","slug":"president-kagame-makes-changes-in-rdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-makes-changes-in-rdf\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame makes changes in RDF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe changes saw Major General Jean-Jacques Mupenzi promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General and appointed Army Chief of Staff (ACOS) while Lieutenant General Jacques Musemakweli has been appointed Reserve Force Chief of Staff (RFCOS),\u201d reads a statement released by RDF. <\/p>\n<p>Before his appointment as the Army Chief of Staff in 2016; Lt.Gen Musemakweli was Commander of the Republican Guards. <\/p>\n<p>Among other changes, Major General Aloys Muganga has been appointed Commander of the Mechanised Division. <\/p>\n<p>The appointments and redeployments take immediate effect as per a statement released by RDF.<\/p>\n<p>Maj. General Muganga was previously the Acting Reserve Force Chief of Staff. He is among senior officers promoted in January last year from the rank of Brigadier General to Major General.  <\/p>\n<p>Maj General Muganga holds a master\u2019s degree in project management from Maastricht University in the Netherlands and is a graduate of the United States of America War College (USAWC \u2013 2007).<\/p>\n<p>His other previous postings include Defence Liaison Officer for Rwanda at EAC \u2013 Arusha among other RDF command and staff responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>He received different medals.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28807 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mupenzi-2-7eead.jpg\" alt=\"Major General Jean-Jacques Mupenzi promoted to the rank of Lieutenant General\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28805 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/musemakweli-b0760.jpg\" alt=\"Lieutenant General Jacques Musemakweli has been appointed Reserve Force Chief of Staff (RFCOS)\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28806 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/muganga-3-abc0d.jpg\" alt=\"Major General Aloys Muganga has been appointed Commander of the Mechanised Division\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame and commander-in-chief of Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) yesterday made new appointments and changes within RDF.<\/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":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39139","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\/39139","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=39139"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39139\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39139"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39139"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39139"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}