{"id":26370,"date":"2022-09-27T08:03:29","date_gmt":"2022-09-27T08:03:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/kagame-promotes-innocent-kabandana-to-lieutenant-general"},"modified":"2022-09-27T08:03:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-27T08:03:29","slug":"kagame-promotes-innocent-kabandana-to-lieutenant-general","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/kagame-promotes-innocent-kabandana-to-lieutenant-general","title":{"rendered":"Kagame promotes Innocent Kabandana to Lieutenant-General"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>President Paul Kagame, who is also the Rwanda Defence Force&#8217;s (RDF) Commander-in-Chief, has promoted Major-General Innocent Kabandana to the rank of Lieutenant-General.<\/p>\n<p>A statement issued by the RDF on September 26, indicates that Gen Kabandana\u2019s promotion follows \u201chis tour of duty in Mozambique\u201d where he was the joint task force commander of Rwandan security forces in Cabo Delgado Province, where they were deployed in July 2021 to battle terrorists.<\/p>\n<p>Rwandan troops, along with those from Mozambique, fully dislodged the terrorists and restored state authority especially in Palma and Mocimboa da Praia districts.<\/p>\n<p>Kabandana, the former Commandant of Rwanda Military Academy and former commander of the Special Forces, holds a Master\u2019s Degree in Business Administration from Oklahoma Christian University, USA.<\/p>\n<p>His other previous key appointments include being a Brigade staff officer in charge of Civil Military Affairs, Chief Instructor at Rwanda Military Academy in Gako, and Deputy Chief Military Personnel Officer in the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, UNMISS.<\/p>\n<p>He was also once the Chairman of the Military Tender Board; Chief of Logistics, RDF HQ; Commandant of Rwanda Military Academy and Director of Rwanda Peace Academy.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\">Rwanda<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. President Paul Kagame, who is also the Rwanda Defence Force&#8217;s (RDF) Commander-in-Chief, has promoted Major-General Innocent Kabandana to the rank of Lieutenant-General. A statement issued by the RDF on September 26, indicates that Gen Kabandana\u2019s promotion follows \u201chis tour of duty in Mozambique\u201d where he was the joint task force commander of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":26369,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,29,28,14],"tags":[760,763,758],"class_list":["post-26370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-policy","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-rwanda","tag-rwanda"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Kagame promotes Innocent Kabandana to Lieutenant-General - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/kagame-promotes-innocent-kabandana-to-lieutenant-general\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Kagame promotes Innocent Kabandana to Lieutenant-General\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. 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