{"id":8232,"date":"2022-01-06T17:51:29","date_gmt":"2022-01-06T17:51:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/all-news\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work"},"modified":"2022-01-06T18:23:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T18:23:35","slug":"mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work","title":{"rendered":"Mental Health: Why one local bank continues to redesign its way of work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Rwanda. <\/strong><\/span>When in October 2020, Lina Higiro, the chief executive officer of NCBA Bank Rwanda, was confronted by a challenging situation whereby an employee acted out of character, it sparked something that ultimately changed how things are done at the bank.<\/p>\n<p>The institution started taking mental health issues in the workplace seriously. It found ways to establish a related employee assistance programme (EAP) for their employees because they noticed a need. The bank launched its new programme in March last year.<\/p>\n<p>According to Higiro, the spark was \u201ca situation which put me, as a leader, in a place of absolute lack of direction, lack of knowledge,\u201d and helplessness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a situation where somebody acted completely out of character and, ordinarily, with the labour law and our HR policy, this person should have gone through the disciplinary process which would have probably led to an exit or a very difficult end in terms of parting,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, the Bank had developed a culture where employees challenged one another and nothing is taken personally. And, because of that, the HR team which handled the specific case pushed back on the CEO\u2019s \u201cautomatic reaction to, this is a disciplinary case, this is how it should go,\u201d and so on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd that push back is what sparked the questions: what do we do? Do we have the capacity? We don\u2019t know how to identify when one of our colleagues is going through changes. All the signs are there but we don\u2019t know how to read these signs. There is definitely a gap.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Higiro and others admitted that the case they were dealing with would not be the first, or last.<\/p>\n<p>She especially worried that there were probably other employees suffering from anxiety, depression, and other conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I had to seek help. I asked colleagues in the industry and elsewhere: who can I talk to? We need help. I need to know how to handle certain situations. And that\u2019s what happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s how, in November 2020, Higiro was introduced to Dr Cindi Cassady, a clinical psychologist at a specialized mental health care facility in Kigali and Laure Iyaga, founder and CEO of the Sana Initiative which aims to break the stigma around mental health in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>The senior management team in the Bank was taken through the basics of what mental health is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an education,\u201d Higiro recalls.<\/p>\n<p>The banking sector has some very unique stressors that cause its employees to experience a great deal of stress, Cassady said. Their jobs, the clinical psychologist explained, \u201coften require long hours, quick decisions, and are impacted not only by local economic events but also by rapidly changing global economic conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Higiro said: \u201cI thought this is it; we had such a stressful environment and perhaps we have to start working and thinking about work redesign that is healthy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>So, they started having discussions, including an awareness session as a leadership team, with Cassady and Iyaga.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSimple basic reminders that your mind is like your body and that if you don\u2019t exercise your mind it starts to die off. If you don\u2019t take care and feed your mind with the right environment and with the right people, the right thoughts, et cetera, you will eventually breakdown. And it happens to all of us; anxiety, burn out, et cetera.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>But Higiro did not stop there. She realized that this is not just an NCBA situation, and together with two other women leaders including BRD\u2019s CEO Pitchette Kampeta Sayinzoga, reached out to the Rwanda Bankers\u2019 Association.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe decided that as three women, we would push certain initiatives through the Association to get more support and also more reach for the issues we think are a challenge and one was mental health. The second was sexual harassment and the third was how do we, as women, move from one level in our careers to the next? We tackled mental health as the first and introduced it to the Rwanda Bankers Association who gave us the audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>All CEOs realized that there is a huge challenge with alcoholism, depression, anxiety, and other mental health issues \u201cand this is not including those [people] who have been affected by post-genocide effects.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, it is the young generation who are taking on new roles. Most of the people we are hiring in the Bank are in their 30s and today, the men are taking on new roles which they never used to take.<\/p>\n<p>They are picking up kids, they are tutoring kids at home, wives are working, and it\u2019s a whole new dynamic. So, there is a lot changing and a lot of pressure in the work place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>A sense of purpose<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Asked what it took to launch the employee assistance programme, Higiro noted that \u201cit only took reaching out\u201d and connecting to: the Rwanda Bankers Association, communities that do what doctors Cassady and other practitioners on the market are doing.<\/p>\n<p>She added: \u201cIt also took finding out that most insurance companies do not cover counseling services, and that was a shock.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And that\u2019s how also, in their employee assistance programme, the decision to start paying for staff started.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe said we will pay for any counseling services for our staff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Consultations are at about Rwf20, 000 per hour and it is offered to all employees.<\/p>\n<p>The probability of miss-use is very low and, in the broader scheme of business, \u201cit\u2019s worth the cost.\u201d Last year, they \u201cmanaged to get our health insurance to cover this benefit.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Everything now looks up but Dr Cassady and her team had to first \u201cdo a lot of awareness sessions with all Bank staff, at all levels.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Sessions included stress audits which helped identify areas where, as a Bank, they had to work on.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has taken time. It is not fully established in the sense that our mental health programme is very young and still evolving and there is a lot that we still need to do. But what all this made me realize is that as a company, as much as we take pride that we are a good employer, there are many things that we could be doing that are hurting employees,\u201d Higiro said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust because of the way the work is organized, some people are working night shifts. Sometimes we assume that it\u2019s your job and you should do a night shift. But maybe there might be something that you can\u2019t handle. There are many things that we have to look at as we evolve and become a better institution that takes care of the full wellness, whether it\u2019s physical, or mental. It is a process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Her institution is working on a work design for health framework where they have flexi hours, also known as flextime or a flexible work schedule; have days for no meetings; and have free Fridays.<\/p>\n<p>They are trying their level best to give autonomy to \u201cour colleagues and employees\u201d so that they can grow in their roles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat we are also trying to do, in developing a work design for health framework, is we look at providing employees opportunities to identify problems in the work place. I am very passionate about developing communities so we foster a sense of belonging and there is mutual understanding that we have a sense of purpose and community beyond the work that we do,\u201d Higiro said.<\/p>\n<p>They established a men\u2019s community, a women\u2019s community, a savings group, and a book club, among others.<\/p>\n<p>And, apparently, they are reaping fruits of their EAP after taking active care of teams beyond physical health.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll this has brought to our attention, and especially me, as the business leader, other leaders in the bank who we didn\u2019t even recognize existed. We are seeing a lot of talent, we are seeing excitement, and we are seeing initiatives that are just helping to create a sense of purpose beyond the work place.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Despite the progress made since October 2020, Higiro admits they still have a lot to do since mental wellness includes setting up policies, \u201creframing how we work,\u201d continually raising the level of awareness, and more.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Cassady said: \u201cI think it\u2019s an excellent idea for companies or corporations who have medical insurance for their employees to also consider a more holistic approach to employee healthcare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGiven the tremendous changes and uncertainties that have affected the medical and education sectors during the past two years, EAPs could provide medical staff and educators with much needed mental health support if their institutions were willing to implement it.\u201d<\/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. When in October 2020, Lina Higiro, the chief executive officer of NCBA Bank Rwanda, was confronted by a challenging situation whereby an employee acted out of character, it sparked something that ultimately changed how things are done at the bank. The institution started taking mental health issues in the workplace seriously. It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":8231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,15,28],"tags":[760,763,758],"class_list":["post-8232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-economy","category-homepage-english","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>Mental Health: Why one local bank continues to redesign its way of work - Rwanda<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"When in October 2020, Lina Higiro, the chief executive officer of NCBA Bank Rwanda, was confronted by a challenging situ ...\" \/>\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\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mental Health: Why one local bank continues to redesign its way of work\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"When in October 2020, Lina Higiro, the chief executive officer of NCBA Bank Rwanda, was confronted by a challenging situ ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Rwanda\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-01-06T17:51:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2022-01-06T18:23:35+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/01\/img-61d7338f4e273.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"847\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"491\" \/>\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=\"7 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Mental Health: Why one local bank continues to redesign its way of work\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-06T17:51:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-06T18:23:35+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work\"},\"wordCount\":1461,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/01\/img-61d7338f4e273.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Rwanda\",\"Rwanda\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"Economy\",\"homepage-english\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work\",\"name\":\"Mental Health: Why one local bank continues to redesign its way of work - Rwanda\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/01\/img-61d7338f4e273.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2022-01-06T17:51:29+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2022-01-06T18:23:35+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"When in October 2020, Lina Higiro, the chief executive officer of NCBA Bank Rwanda, was confronted by a challenging situ ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/01\/img-61d7338f4e273.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/01\/img-61d7338f4e273.jpg\",\"width\":847,\"height\":491,\"caption\":\"Mental Health: Why one local bank continues to redesign its way of work\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Mental Health: Why one local bank continues to redesign its way of work\"}]},{\"@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":"Mental Health: Why one local bank continues to redesign its way of work - Rwanda","description":"When in October 2020, Lina Higiro, the chief executive officer of NCBA Bank Rwanda, was confronted by a challenging situ ...","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\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Mental Health: Why one local bank continues to redesign its way of work","og_description":"When in October 2020, Lina Higiro, the chief executive officer of NCBA Bank Rwanda, was confronted by a challenging situ ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work","og_site_name":"Rwanda","article_published_time":"2022-01-06T17:51:29+00:00","article_modified_time":"2022-01-06T18:23:35+00:00","og_image":[{"width":847,"height":491,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/01\/img-61d7338f4e273.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"7 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Mental Health: Why one local bank continues to redesign its way of work","datePublished":"2022-01-06T17:51:29+00:00","dateModified":"2022-01-06T18:23:35+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work"},"wordCount":1461,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/01\/img-61d7338f4e273.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Rwanda","Rwanda"],"articleSection":["all news","Economy","homepage-english"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work","name":"Mental Health: Why one local bank continues to redesign its way of work - Rwanda","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/01\/img-61d7338f4e273.jpg","datePublished":"2022-01-06T17:51:29+00:00","dateModified":"2022-01-06T18:23:35+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"When in October 2020, Lina Higiro, the chief executive officer of NCBA Bank Rwanda, was confronted by a challenging situ ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/01\/img-61d7338f4e273.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/sites\/23\/2022\/01\/img-61d7338f4e273.jpg","width":847,"height":491,"caption":"Mental Health: Why one local bank continues to redesign its way of work"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/economy\/mental-health-why-one-local-bank-continues-to-redesign-its-way-of-work#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Mental Health: Why one local bank continues to redesign its way of work"}]},{"@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\/8232","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=8232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/rwanda\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}