{"id":47330,"date":"2023-01-06T15:13:39","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T15:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/dr-francois-xavier-kalinda-named-senator\/"},"modified":"2023-01-09T11:42:55","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T11:42:55","slug":"dr-francois-xavier-kalinda-named-senator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/dr-francois-xavier-kalinda-named-senator\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Fran\u00e7ois Xavier Kalinda named senator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The appointment has been announced through a communiqu\u00e9 released by the Office of Prime Minister this Friday.   <\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kalinda was born in Kitabi Sector of Nyamagabe District. He holds a PhD in Business Law acquired from Ottawa University in Canada.  <\/p>\n<p>He pursued undergraduate and Master\u2019s courses at the National University of Rwanda.  <\/p>\n<p>In 2015, Dr. Kalinda was elected to represent Rwanda in the East African Legislative Assembly (EALA) replacing Parliamentarian C\u00e9l\u00e9stin Kabahizi who had resigned.  <\/p>\n<p>He once served as a lecturer and Dean of School of Law at University of Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Kalinda joins Rwanda\u2019s Senate replacing Dr. Augustin Iyamuremye, the Senate President who resigned recently on 8th December 2022 citing sickness reasons.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-45805 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/arton70313-97551-84fb9.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame has appointed Dr. Fran\u00e7ois Xavier Kalinda as a senator in Rwanda\u2019s upper chamber of parliament.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has appointed Dr. Fran\u00e7ois Xavier Kalinda as a senator in Rwanda\u2019s upper chamber of parliament.} <\/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-47330","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\/47330","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=47330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47330"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47330"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}