{"id":56025,"date":"2025-10-21T17:43:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T17:43:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/evode-prof-dusingizemungu-reappointed-as-dr-uwamariya-and-gasana-join-the\/"},"modified":"2025-10-23T15:29:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-23T15:29:12","slug":"evode-prof-dusingizemungu-reappointed-as-dr-uwamariya-and-gasana-join-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/evode-prof-dusingizemungu-reappointed-as-dr-uwamariya-and-gasana-join-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Evode, Prof. Dusingizemungu reappointed as Dr. Uwamariya and Gasana join the Senate"},"content":{"rendered":"

Prof. Jean Pierre Dusingizemungu and Evode Uwizeyimana have been reappointed for another term, while Dr. Valentine Uwamariya and Alfred Gasana join the Senate as new members.<\/p>\n

The appointments were made in accordance with Article 80 of the Constitution.<\/p>\n

Dr. Valentine holds a Bachelor\u2019s degree in Chemistry from the former National University of Rwanda (NUR), a Master\u2019s degree in Chemistry from the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg, South Africa (2005), and a PhD in Water Science and Environmental Technology from UNESCO-IHE and Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands (2013).<\/p>\n

Dr. Uwamariya previously served as the Deputy Vice Chancellor in Charge of training, Institutional Development and Research at Rwanda Polytechnic (RP) before being appointed Minister of Education in December 2020. <\/p>\n

In 2023, Dr. Uwamariya was appointed Minister of Gender and Family Promotion, and the following year, she became Minister of Environment.<\/p>\n

On July 24, 2025, Dr. Uwamariya was replaced by Dr. Bernadette Arakwiriye as Minister of Environment. Since then, she has not held any government position.<\/p>\n

Alfred Gasana was appointed Minister of Interior in December 2021, a portfolio that had last existed in the Rwandan Government in April 2020 under Gen Patrick Nyamvumba.<\/p>\n

Before joining the Cabinet, Gasana served as a Member of Parliament in the Chamber of Deputies, where he was part of the Political Affairs and Legal Committee in 2010.<\/p>\n

In June 2024, he was appointed Rwanda\u2019s Ambassador to the Kingdom of the Netherlands, succeeding Ambassador Olivier Nduhungirehe, who had been named Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.<\/p>\n

Evode Uwizeyimana is a Senator in the Parliament of Rwanda, appointed by President Kagame in October 2020. He holds a Master\u2019s degree in Law.<\/p>\n

From 2016 to 2020, Uwizeyimana served as State Minister in the Ministry of Justice in charge of Constitutional and Legal Affairs.<\/p>\n

Between 2014 and 2016, he was Vice Chairperson of the Law Reform Commission and also served on the committee that reviewed Rwanda\u2019s Constitution in 2015.<\/p>\n

Prof. Jean Pierre Dusingizemungu holds a PhD in Clinical Psychology and has been a Senator since October 2020.<\/p>\n

For many years, he served as President of IBUKA, the umbrella organization representing survivors of the 1994 tragedy against the Tutsi.<\/p>\n

From 1994 to December 2010, he was a lecturer in Psychology at the former National University of Rwanda.<\/p>\n

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President Paul Kagame has appointed new Senators, including Prof. Jean Pierre Dusingizemungu, Evode Uwizeyimana, Dr. Valentine Uwamariya and Alfred Gasana.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000096508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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":{"id":2000096508,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-10-21_at_5.37_19_pm.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-10-21_at_5.37_19_pm.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-10-21_at_5.37_19_pm.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-10-21_at_5.37_19_pm.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-10-21_at_5.37_19_pm.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-10-21_at_5.37_19_pm.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56025","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=56025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000096508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56025"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56025"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}