{"id":81541,"date":"2024-08-14T11:20:42","date_gmt":"2024-08-14T11:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/ngirente-pledges-to-help-elevate-rwanda-to-even-greater-heights"},"modified":"2024-08-14T12:33:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-14T12:33:27","slug":"ngirente-pledges-to-help-elevate-rwanda-to-even-greater-heights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/policy\/ngirente-pledges-to-help-elevate-rwanda-to-even-greater-heights","title":{"rendered":"Ngirente pledges to help &#8216;elevate Rwanda to even greater heights&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>Following his reappointment as Prime Minister of Rwanda, on Tuesday , August 13, Edouard Ngirente has thanked President Paul Kagame and reaffirmed his commitment to serve the country.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Deeply humbled and honored to be reappointed as Prime Minister,&#8221; Ngirente said in post on X on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Thank you Your Excellency @PaulKagame for this immense privilege. I commit to continue serving our Country under your leadership and anticipate our journey to elevate Rwanda to even greater heights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Deeply humbled and honored to be reappointed as Prime Minister. Thank you Your Excellency @PaulKagame for this immense privilege. I commit to continue serving our Country under your leadership and anticipate our journey to elevate Rwanda to even greater heights.<\/p>\n<p>Ngirente, 51, who first became Prime Minister in August 2017, was reappointed one day after President Kagame was sworn in for a five-year term on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The agricultural economist is Rwanda&#8217;s 11th Prime Minister after the 1962 Independence and the sixth after 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.<\/p>\n<p>Following the appointment of the Prime Minister, President Kagame has 15 days to appoint members of the Cabinet, according to the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The President appoints Ministers, Ministers of State and other Cabinet members after consultation with the Prime Minister.<\/p>\n<p><b>Who is Ngirente?<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Ngirente was born in Gakenke District, Northern Province, in 1973.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to his appointment in 2017, Ngirente worked with the World Bank Group in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>He had joined the World Bank six years earlier as an advisor to the Executive Director in charge of 20 African countries, before being promoted to senior advisor in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to joining the World Bank, he had served in senior positions in the Ministry of Finance and Economic Planning.<\/p>\n<p>Ngirente holds a PhD in Agricultural Economics from the Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) in Belgium.<\/p>\n<p>He also holds two post-graduate degrees, one in Financial Risk Management from Faculte\u0301s Universitaires Saint-Louis of Brussels and another in Agriculture Economics from UCL.<\/p>\n<p>He completed his undergraduate studies at the National University of Rwanda (now University of Rwanda), where he later became a faculty member.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About Rwanda Follow Africa-Press<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. 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