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Frank Mushyo Kamanzi is the current Rwandan Ambassador to

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, having been appointed on November 29, 2019. He was previously the Force Commander of the

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, being was appointed on 11 April 2017 by

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. Prior to that, he was the Force Commander of the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur.

Career

Kamanzi graduated from the

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in Washington, D.C., with a master's degree in national security strategy, and from

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in Kampala with a bachelor's degree in agriculture in the 1980s. He also studied at the Armed Forces Command and Staff College in Jaji, Nigeria and the Army Command College in Nanjing, China, and is a graduate of both schools. From 2012 to 2015, he was the Army Chief of Staff in the

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. From 2010 to 2012, he held the position of Commander of the Rwanda Military Academy, and from 2007 to 2010 he was the head of an infantry brigade. From 2006 to 2007, Kamanzi served as the Deputy Force Commander in the

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(AMIS).

References

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