{"id":44756,"date":"2021-11-05T06:36:42","date_gmt":"2021-11-05T06:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/col-karuretwa-promoted-assumes-new-duties\/"},"modified":"2021-11-10T06:50:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T06:50:04","slug":"col-karuretwa-promoted-assumes-new-duties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/col-karuretwa-promoted-assumes-new-duties\/","title":{"rendered":"Col Karuretwa promoted, assumes new duties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The statement released by the Ministry of Defence shows that the promotion and appointment take immediate effect.  <\/p>\n<p>He has been serving as the Head of Operations in RDF\u2019s Second Division operating in Northern Province.  <\/p>\n<p>He also served as the Principal Private Secretary to the President of the Republic from November 2013 to July 2021.  <\/p>\n<p>Brig Gen Karuretwa graduated from the School of Law at the National University of Rwanda in 2000 before pursuing Master&#8217;s in International Law at The Fletcher School,  Tufts University in the United States of America.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39959 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/karuretwa.jpg\" alt=\"Col Karuretwa has been elevated to the rank of Brigadier General. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39960 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/karu.jpg\" alt=\"Col Karuretwa (in front) was among officers who completed studies at Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) Command and Staff College in Nyakinama.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame and the Commander-In-Chief of Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) has promoted Colonel Patrick Karuretwa to the rank of Brigadier General and appointed him head of RDF International Military Cooperation.}<\/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":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-44756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/44756","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=44756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44756"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44756"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}