{"id":39952,"date":"2019-09-03T10:11:06","date_gmt":"2019-09-03T10:11:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-makes-appointments-and-changes-within-rdf\/"},"modified":"2019-09-06T11:03:09","modified_gmt":"2019-09-06T11:03:09","slug":"kagame-makes-appointments-and-changes-within-rdf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-makes-appointments-and-changes-within-rdf\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame makes appointments and changes within RDF"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Maj Gen Bayingana has replaced Maj. Gen. Charles Karamba who was previously appointed Rwanda\u2019s ambassador to Tanzania.   <\/p>\n<p>Bayingana has been the Chief Executive Officer of Zigama Credit and Savings Society (CSS). He is also the former Vice Chairman of the National Itorero Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The statement from the Ministry of Defense (MINADEF) reads that President Kagame also appointed Brig-Gen Vincent Nyakarundi was appointed as the Head of Defence Intelligence and Col Andrew Nyamvumba as the head of Defence Research and Development at the Ministry of Defence.<\/p>\n<p>Nyakarundi, who was Rwanda\u2019s first-ever military attach\u00e9 to the United Nations (UN) in New York, replaced Col Andrew Nyamvumba.<br \/>\nAppointments are to take immediate effect as per MINADEF statement. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31901 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bayingana-8-9d239.jpg\" alt=\"Maj Gen Emmanuel Bayingana has been appointed as the Air Force Chief of Staff.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31902 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/nyakarundi-4-7ff8c.jpg\" alt=\"Brig Gen Vincent Nyakarundi was appointed as the Head of Defence Intelligence \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31903 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/nyamvumba-6-6cd24.jpg\" alt=\"Col Andrew Nyamvumba as the head of Defence Research and Development at the Ministry of Defence.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The President of the Republic Paul Kagame and the Commander in Chief of the Rwanda Defense Forces (RDF) yesterday made changes in RDF where Maj Gen Emmanuel Bayingana has been appointed as the Air Force Chief of Staff.<\/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":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","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\/39952","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=39952"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39952\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39952"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39952"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}