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November 5, 2019
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has made majorchanges to his cabinet and security establishment, appointing a new army chiefand dropping a minister who has not been seen in public for months.
Major General Jean Bosco Kazura has been promoted toa four star general and appointed the chief of defence staff, taking over GenPatrick Nyamvumba who is now the new minister of internal security.
A former head of the football federation who alsoserved as commander of UN peacekeepers mission in Mali MINUSMA, Kazura, wasuntil recently the head of the military college in northern Rwanda.
Richard Sezibera, who was the minister of foreignaffairs from October 2018, has been replaced by Vincent Biruta who was theenvironment minister.
A medical doctor and the former secretary general ofthe East African Community, Sezibera, has been missing in public since Julywhen he attended the Commonwealth foreign affairs ministers’ meeting in London.
His health and whereabouts have been a matter ofspeculation in Rwanda, but the government has kept silence citing theminister’s right to privacy.