{"id":40179,"date":"2023-04-20T17:21:31","date_gmt":"2023-04-20T17:21:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation"},"modified":"2023-04-20T18:03:59","modified_gmt":"2023-04-20T18:03:59","slug":"habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation","title":{"rendered":"Habyarimana assumes FERWAFA office after Nizeyimana\u2019s resignation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Football governing body (FERWAFA) vice president Marcel Habyarimana has assumed office as the federation\u2019s incumbent president following the resignation of outgoing president Olivier Mugabo Nizeyimana.<\/p>\n<p>Nizeyimana announced his resignation from office on Wednesday, April 19, citing personal reasons including what he termed as \u201ca lot of work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The former Mukura Victory boss was voted into office on June 27, 2021 in an Extraordinary General Assembly at the Lemigo Hotel in Kigali on a four-year term.<\/p>\n<p>He has been in office for less than two years and his premature resignation means that Habyarimana will fill in the position for the remaining two years\u2019 time until June 2024 when the next president will be elected.<\/p>\n<p>It is the second time Habyarimana assumes office as Ferwafa incumbent president. He did the same between April and June 2021 Rtd Brig. General, Jean-Damasce\u0300ne Sekamana announced his premature resignation.<\/p>\n<p>After the term expired, Nizeyimana named Habyarimana in his executive committee after he was elected new Ferwafa president in June 2021.<\/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. Football governing body (FERWAFA) vice president Marcel Habyarimana has assumed office as the federation\u2019s incumbent president following the resignation of outgoing president Olivier Mugabo Nizeyimana. Nizeyimana announced his resignation from office on Wednesday, April 19, citing personal reasons including what he termed as \u201ca lot of work.\u201d The former Mukura Victory boss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":40177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,18,772],"tags":[760,763,758],"class_list":["post-40179","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-sport","category-to-homepage","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>Habyarimana assumes FERWAFA office after Nizeyimana\u2019s resignation - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Football governing body (FERWAFA) vice president Marcel Habyarimana has assumed office as the federation\u2019s incumbent pre ...\" \/>\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\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Habyarimana assumes FERWAFA office after Nizeyimana\u2019s resignation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Football governing body (FERWAFA) vice president Marcel Habyarimana has assumed office as the federation\u2019s incumbent pre ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2023-04-20T17:21:31+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-04-20T18:03:59+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681995101.88.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1000\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"672\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Habyarimana assumes FERWAFA office after Nizeyimana\u2019s resignation\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-04-20T17:21:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-04-20T18:03:59+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation\"},\"wordCount\":180,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681995101.88.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Rwanda\",\"Rwanda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Sport\",\"to-homepage\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation\",\"name\":\"Habyarimana assumes FERWAFA office after Nizeyimana\u2019s resignation - Rwanda\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681995101.88.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-04-20T17:21:31+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-04-20T18:03:59+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Football governing body (FERWAFA) vice president Marcel Habyarimana has assumed office as the federation\u2019s incumbent pre ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681995101.88.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681995101.88.jpg\",\"width\":1000,\"height\":672,\"caption\":\"Habyarimana assumes FERWAFA office after Nizeyimana\u2019s resignation\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Habyarimana assumes FERWAFA office after Nizeyimana\u2019s resignation\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/\",\"name\":\"Rwanda\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Habyarimana assumes FERWAFA office after Nizeyimana\u2019s resignation - Rwanda","description":"Football governing body (FERWAFA) vice president Marcel Habyarimana has assumed office as the federation\u2019s incumbent pre ...","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Habyarimana assumes FERWAFA office after Nizeyimana\u2019s resignation","og_description":"Football governing body (FERWAFA) vice president Marcel Habyarimana has assumed office as the federation\u2019s incumbent pre ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation","og_site_name":"Rwanda","article_published_time":"2023-04-20T17:21:31+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-04-20T18:03:59+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1000,"height":672,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681995101.88.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Habyarimana assumes FERWAFA office after Nizeyimana\u2019s resignation","datePublished":"2023-04-20T17:21:31+00:00","dateModified":"2023-04-20T18:03:59+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation"},"wordCount":180,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681995101.88.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Rwanda","Rwanda"],"articleSection":["all news","Sport","to-homepage"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation","name":"Habyarimana assumes FERWAFA office after Nizeyimana\u2019s resignation - Rwanda","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681995101.88.jpg","datePublished":"2023-04-20T17:21:31+00:00","dateModified":"2023-04-20T18:03:59+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Football governing body (FERWAFA) vice president Marcel Habyarimana has assumed office as the federation\u2019s incumbent pre ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681995101.88.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2023\/04\/postQueueImg_1681995101.88.jpg","width":1000,"height":672,"caption":"Habyarimana assumes FERWAFA office after Nizeyimana\u2019s resignation"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sport\/habyarimana-assumes-ferwafa-office-after-nizeyimanas-resignation#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Habyarimana assumes FERWAFA office after Nizeyimana\u2019s resignation"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/","name":"Rwanda","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}