{"id":41849,"date":"2020-08-12T14:19:06","date_gmt":"2020-08-12T14:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/former-diplomat-karegesa-passes-on\/"},"modified":"2020-08-18T16:10:12","modified_gmt":"2020-08-18T16:10:12","slug":"former-diplomat-karegesa-passes-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/former-diplomat-karegesa-passes-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Former diplomat Karegesa passes on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>His death was announced by the ruling party Rwanda Patriotic Front (RPF- Ikotanyi) via Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn behalf of the @rpfinkotanyi family, the Secretary General Hon. Fran\u00e7ois Ngarambe joins in mourning the family of Ambassador Kamali Karegesa who passed away on Tuesday due to illness,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmbassador Kamali will be remembered for his dedication and service to the country. May God grant him eternal rest,\u201d reads the statement.<\/p>\n<p>The Late Karegesa served in different government positions;he served as the Rwandan High Commissioner to South Africa, after working in similar capacity in Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>Karegesa also worked as the Executive Secretary of the Chancellery for Heroes, National Orders and Decorations of Honour (CHENO).<\/p>\n<p>Before he passed, Karegesa was working at the secretariat of the ruling RPF-Inkotanyi, where he was an advisor on diplomacy.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36460 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/efjwsbewoaeklvr-7c818.jpg\" alt=\"Former diplomat Amb. Ignatius Kamali Karegesa passed away on August 11 after a long illness.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former diplomat Amb. Ignatius Kamali Karegesa passed away on August 11 after a long illness.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[2942],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41849","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-nicole-kamanzi-m"],"bylines":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","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":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","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\/41849","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41849\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41849"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41849"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}