{"id":53402,"date":"2025-03-15T08:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-15T08:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/brig-gen-gashugi-appointed-rwanda-s-special-forces-commander\/"},"modified":"2025-03-17T14:39:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T14:39:23","slug":"brig-gen-gashugi-appointed-rwanda-s-special-forces-commander","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/brig-gen-gashugi-appointed-rwanda-s-special-forces-commander\/","title":{"rendered":"Brig. Gen. Gashugi appointed Rwanda\u2019s Special Forces Commander"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gashugi replaces Major General Ruki Karusisi who has been recalled to Ministry of Defence headquarters. <\/p>\n

Gashugi has held several key positions within the RDF. In May 2021, he was promoted from Lieutenant Colonel to Colonel and appointed as the Defence Attach\u00e9 to Tanzania. <\/p>\n

On the other hand, Maj. Gen. Karusisi is a seasoned officer whose career has spanned key roles in Rwanda\u2019s elite units. <\/p>\n

He previously served as Head of Operations in the Republican Guard (RG), the specialized brigade charged with protecting the Head of State.<\/p>\n

In 2018, as a lieutenant colonel, Karusisi was promoted to the rank of colonel and appointed Deputy Commander of the SOF.<\/p>\n

By 2020, he had been elevated to brigadier general and eventually to major general, taking full command of the Special Operations Force.<\/p>\n

\"Major<\/figure>\n
\"Brigadier<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Paul Kagame has promoted Colonel Stanislas Gashugi to the rank of Brigadier General and appointed him as the Special Operations Force (SOF) Commander, with immediate effect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":2000083723,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-53402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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":{"id":2000083723,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-425.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-425.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-425.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-425.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-425.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/profile-425.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53402","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\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000083723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53402"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=53402"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=53402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}