Rwandan President Paul Kagame on Wednesday reappointed former senior government officials as foreign and domestic policy observers. “The appointments are designed to strengthen the president’s capacity to deal with both domestic and foreign policy issues, and the appointed people have the experience to work with the president,” government spokesman Joseph Bideri told IRIN on Thursday. Former minister of state in the president’s office Patrick Mazimhaka was named special presidential envoy and he told IRIN that he would deal mainly with issues relating to Congo and Burundi. Former foreign minister Amri Sued becomes foreign policy adviser, former interior minister Abdul Karim Halelimana becomes domestic policy adviser. Former prime minister Pierre-Celestin Rwigema, who resigned in February on corruption charges, was named chairman of the board of directors Rwandatel, the state telecommunications company. Other appointments are Dr. Emmanuel Ndahiro the army spokesman as presidential private secretary on security matters, and Theogene Rudasingwa the former political adviser in the vice president’s office as the principal private secretary to the president.
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