{"id":39473,"date":"2019-06-09T22:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T22:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/senior-officers-from-ten-countries-graduate-at\/"},"modified":"2019-06-12T10:54:18","modified_gmt":"2019-06-12T10:54:18","slug":"senior-officers-from-ten-countries-graduate-at","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/senior-officers-from-ten-countries-graduate-at\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior officers from ten countries graduate at RDF Command and Staff College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The graduation ceremony was presided over by the RDF Chief of Defence Staff (CDS) Gen Patrick Nyamvumba on behalf of the President of the Republic and Commander-in-Chief of RDF.<\/p>\n<p>The student officers have been undergoing a year-long course in analytical and communication skills, personal and collective values, as well as professional military knowledge designed to help them in their future command and leadership management responsibilities.<\/p>\n<p>CDS Gen Nyamvumba extended his gratitude to every one who contributed to the successful completion of the course and encouraged them to share experience and insight in various approaches to overcome security challenges at national, regional, continental and at global level. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs you depart, go and convincingly use that knowledge to contribute in whichever way you can and in the best possible manner to make Africa peaceful, strong, prosperous and a better place to live,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that your studies here have equipped you with the necessary analytical, planning and communication skills to enable you make the transition from tactical to operational and strategic focus and to deal with complex security challenges,\u2019\u2019 he added.<\/p>\n<p>The 47 graduates were awarded with the symbol \u2018Passed Staff College\u2019 certificate and among them 30 also were awarded a Master of Arts degree in Security studies by the National University of Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Major Evans Mensa KOMEDJAH from Ghana emerged the best overall student followed by Major Emmanuel Mugabo from Rwanda who was the second-best overall student and the third was Lt Col Allan Gilbert Mittawa from Malawi.<\/p>\n<p>The graduates were of the rank of Major and Lieutenant Colonel from Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29631 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1_-_copy-2-b0d77.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29632 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/30_muri_47_bahawe_barangije_icyiciro_cya_gatatu_cya_kaminuza_mu_masomo_y_iyb_umutekano_no_kuyobora-6d78b.jpg\" alt=\"47 Senior Officers from RDF, Rwanda National Police and 9 allied Armed Forces from African countries graduated from a one-year long Senior Command and Staff Course. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29633 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abasirikare_bakuru_n_abapolisi_bahawe_impamyabumenyi-03514.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29634 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2_-_copy-3-5deaa.jpg\" alt=\"The Gen Nyamvumba extended his gratitude to every one who contributed to the successful completion of the course\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29635 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img_20190607_120113-d4ff0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29635 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img_20190607_120113-d4ff0.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29636 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img_20190607_120054-1741e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29637 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/3_-_copy-2-739d2.jpg\" alt=\"The Gen. Nyamvumba encouraged them to share experience and insight in various approaches to overcome security challenges at national, regional, continental and at global level. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-29638 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ifoto_y_urwibutso_y_abashoje_amasomo_n_abayobozi_batandukanye-71f90.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty-seven Senior Officers from Rwanda Defence Force (RDF), Rwanda National Police and nine other allied Armed Forces from African countries on Friday graduated from a one-year long Senior Command and Staff Course Intake-07. <\/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":[133],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-main-featured-home","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\/39473","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=39473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39473"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39473"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}