{"id":47822,"date":"2023-04-05T13:21:39","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T13:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/newly-elected-rpf-secretary-general-assumes-office\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T07:21:45","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T07:21:45","slug":"newly-elected-rpf-secretary-general-assumes-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/newly-elected-rpf-secretary-general-assumes-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Newly elected RPF Secretary General assumes office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gasamagera was elected recently during the party&#8217;s 16th National Congress, which coincided with the party&#8217;s 35 years of existence and saw more than 2,000 party members in attendance. <\/p>\n<p>The congress also witnessed the re-election of President Paul Kagame as the party Chairman and the election of Consolee Uwimana as the first female Vice Chairperson of the party.<\/p>\n<p>Gasamagera, who previously served as the Rwandan ambassador to Angola, expressed gratitude to the party and its members, stating that he owes his existence to RPF-Inkotanyi. <\/p>\n<p>As the former Commissioner in charge of Political Mass Mobilisation in the RPF, Gasamagera&#8217;s extensive experience is expected to play a crucial role in shaping the party&#8217;s policies and strategies going forward. <\/p>\n<p>Gasamagera and new staff members were elected for five-year term. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-47262 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ubwo_ngarambe_na_gasamagera_bahererekanyaga_ububasha-abe60_1_.jpg\" alt=\"Fran\u00e7ois Ngarambe (left) handing over duties to his successor, Gasamagera. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-47264 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/aba_bayobozi_bashimye_umuhate_bakoranye_basaba_abashya_gukomerezaho-90c52.jpg\" alt=\"Gasamagera and Uwimana in a group photo with their predecessors Bazivamo and Ngarambe.  \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-47263 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ni_igikorwa_cyitabiriwe_n_abandi_bayobozi_baheruka_gutorwa-13ed8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Wellars Gasamagera has assumed office as the newly elected Secretary General of Rwanda&#8217;s ruling party, RPF-Inkotanyi, in a ceremony held at the party&#8217;s headquarters in Rusororo. The handover ceremony between Gasamagera and outgoing Secretary General Fran\u00e7ois Ngarambe held on On 4th April  2023,  was witnessed by staff members at the general secretariat.}<\/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-47822","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\/47822","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=47822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47822"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47822"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}