{"id":56436,"date":"2025-12-01T21:49:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/dr-ndabamenye-appointed-minister-of-agriculture-as-president-kagame-makes-key\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T21:54:58","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T21:54:58","slug":"dr-ndabamenye-appointed-minister-of-agriculture-as-president-kagame-makes-key","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/dr-ndabamenye-appointed-minister-of-agriculture-as-president-kagame-makes-key\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Ndabamenye appointed Minister of Agriculture"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Additionally, Dr. Usta Kayitesi has been appointed as the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>The appointments were announced through a communiqu\u00e9 issued by the Office of the Prime Minister on Monday, December 1, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The President has also made appointments to other critical roles. Gen (Rtd) James Kabarebe has been appointed as Senior Defence and Security Advisor in the Office of the President. <\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Dr. Charles Murigande has been appointed as a Senator. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-98513\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/523373574_1200457965451061_5414046774901992717_n-b737f.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Telesphore Ndabamenye is the new Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-98512\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/photo_1-58-3b6ce-316aa.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Usta Kayitesi has been appointed as the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-98510\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/kabarebe-4-2-fd9e4.jpg\" alt=\" Gen (Rtd) James Kabarebe has been appointed as Senior Defence and Security Advisor in the Office of the President. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-98509\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dr-charles-murigande-is-university-of-rwandas-deputy-vice-chancellor-for-institutional-advancement-173a4.jpg\" alt=\"Dr. Charles Murigande has been appointed as a Senator. \" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{More details to follow &#8230;.}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Paul Kagame has appointed new officials including Dr. Telesphore Ndabamenye named the Minister of Agriculture and Animal Resources and Dr. Solange Uwituze taking on the role of Minister of State within the same ministry. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000098508,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-56436","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":2000098508,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/523373574_1200457965451061_5414046774901992717_n-b737f.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/523373574_1200457965451061_5414046774901992717_n-b737f.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/523373574_1200457965451061_5414046774901992717_n-b737f.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/523373574_1200457965451061_5414046774901992717_n-b737f.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/523373574_1200457965451061_5414046774901992717_n-b737f.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/523373574_1200457965451061_5414046774901992717_n-b737f.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56436","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=56436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000098508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56436"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=56436"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=56436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}