{"id":46513,"date":"2022-08-31T12:27:05","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T12:27:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/mushikiwabo-among-namers-of-20-baby-gorillas-in-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-08-31T12:29:42","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T12:29:42","slug":"mushikiwabo-among-namers-of-20-baby-gorillas-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/mushikiwabo-among-namers-of-20-baby-gorillas-in-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Mushikiwabo among namers of 20 baby gorillas in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The list has been released by Rwanda Development Board (RDB) via social media platforms where Mushikiwabo is among 15 namers that have been announced. <\/p>\n<p>Other namers on this year\u2019s list include Rwandan international referee, Salima Mukansanga; fashion designer and founder of Moshions, Moses Turahirwa and others from across the world including celebrities in football, music, film industry and renowned conservationists among others. <\/p>\n<p>Mushikiwabo was elected as the head of the world community of French-speaking countries during the 17th Summit of Heads of State from Francophonie held in Erevan, Armenia in October 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Following her election, Mushikiwabo took office in January 2019.<\/p>\n<p>She recently confirmed that she is a candidate for the second term where she might lead the organization for four more years, once re-elected.<\/p>\n<p>The organization comprises 88 member states and governments; of these, 54 states and governments are full members, 7 are associate members and 27 are observers.<\/p>\n<p>Born on 22nd May 1961, Mushikiwabo is the fourth Secretary-General of OIF.  <\/p>\n<p>Prior to the post, Mushikiwabo held different duties in the Government of Rwanda where she served as the Minister of Foreign Affairs (2009-2018), government spokesperson and Minister of Information.  <\/p>\n<p>She holds a master&#8217;s degree in Languages and Interpretation from the University of Delaware in the United States of America (USA).  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-43913 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/mushiki.jpg\" alt=\"Mushikiwabo assumed duties as thee Secretary-General of OIF in January 2022.  \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Secretary-General of the Organisation Internationale de la Francophonie (OIF), Louise Mushikiwabo has been listed among individuals expected to name 20 baby gorillas during a ceremony scheduled on 2nd September 2022 at the foothills of Volcanoes National Park in Kinigo Sector of Musanze District, Northern Province.}<\/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":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-46513","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\/46513","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=46513"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46513\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46513"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46513"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46513"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46513"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46513"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}