{"id":46160,"date":"2022-07-11T08:01:57","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T08:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-promotes-three-rdf-generals-colonel\/"},"modified":"2022-07-13T11:03:32","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T11:03:32","slug":"president-kagame-promotes-three-rdf-generals-colonel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-promotes-three-rdf-generals-colonel\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame promotes three RDF Generals, Colonel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The officers promoted to Major General include Vincent Nyakarundi, the Head of Defence Intelligence; Willy Rwagasana, the Commander of the Republican Guard and Ruki Karusisi, the Commander of Special Operations Force.  <\/p>\n<p>RDF Spokesperson, Ronald Rwivanga has been also elevated from the rank of Colonel to Brigadier General.<\/p>\n<p>The statement released by RDF shows that the appointment takes immediate effect. <\/p>\n<p>Major General Vincent Nyakarundi was appointed as the Head of Defence Intelligence in 2019.  <\/p>\n<p>Both Nyakarundi and Rwagasana had been promoted to the rank of Brigadier General in 2018.   <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Karusisi Ruki had been elevated to Brigadier General in 2019 when he was appointed as the Commander of Special Operations Force.<\/p>\n<p>Ronald Rwivanga had been also promoted from Lt Colonel to Colonel in June 2021. He was named RDF Spokesperson in December 2020. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43267 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2-3322-ef089.jpg\" alt=\"Vincent Nyakarundi has been promoted from Brigadier General to Major General. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43268 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/49075239223_e0d583648e_b-5e2d3-633e8.jpg\" alt=\"Ruki Karusisi promoted to Major General is the commander of Special Operations Force. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43269 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/fjs--fpxiae-pmd-4b10c-69285.jpg\" alt=\"Willy Rwagasana has been elevated to Major General from Brigadier General. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43271 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dwi-2.jpg\" alt=\"Rwivanga has been promoted to Brigadier General. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame and the Commander-In-Chief of Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) has promoted three officers from the rank of Brigadier General to Major General and one from the rank of Colonel to Brigadier General.} <\/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-46160","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\/46160","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=46160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46160"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46160"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}