The Rwandan Ministry of Defence (Kinyarwanda: Minisiteri y'Ingabo; French: Ministère de la Défense) is in charge of the Rwanda Defence Force. The Minister of Defence is responsible for the conduct and implementation of defence programmes.
Affiliated agencies
The MOD has affiliated agencies:
- ZIGAMA CSS
- Rwanda Military Hospital
- Military Medical Insurance
- Armed Forces Shop
List of ministers
| No. | Portrait | Name (born–died) |
Term of office | Party | President serving under |
Ref. | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Took office | Left office | Time in office | |||||||
| 1 | 
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Calliope Mulindahabi | 1962 | 1965 | 2–3 years | Grégoire Kayibanda | |||
| 2 | .jpg)
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Juvénal Habyarimana | 1965 | 1991 | 25–26 years | National Revolutionary Movement for Development | |||
| Juvénal Habyarimana | |||||||||
| 3 |
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Maj.-Gen. Augustin Ndindiliyimana | 1991 | 1992 | 0–1 years | ||||
| 4 |
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James Gasana | April 1992 | July 1993 | 1 year, 3 months | ||||
| 5 |
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Augustin Bizimana | July 1993 | July 1994 | 1 year | Republican Democratic Movement | |||
| Théodore Sindikubwabo | |||||||||
| 6 | 
|
Maj.-Gen. Paul Kagame | 1994 | 2000 | 5–6 years | Rwandan Patriotic Front | Pasteur Bizimungu | ||
| 7 |
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Brig.-Gen. Emmanuel Habyarimana | 2000 | November 2002 | 1–2 years | Rwandan Patriotic Front | Paul Kagame | ||
| 8 |
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Gen. Marcel Gatsinzi | November 2002 | April 2010 | 7 years, 5 months | Rwandan Patriotic Front | |||
| 9 | 
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Gen. James Kabarebe | 10 April 2010 | October 2018 | 8 years, 5 months | Rwandan Patriotic Front | |||
| 10 |
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Maj. Gen. Albert Murasira | October 2018 | 6 June 2023 | 4 years, 8 months | Rwandan Patriotic Front | |||
| 11 |
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Brig.-Gen. Juvenal Marizamunda | 6 June 2023 | Incumbent | 1 year, 222 days | Rwandan Patriotic Front | |||
References
- "bidding_notice.pdf Archived 2011-10-18 at the Wayback Machine." (Archive) Ministry of Defence. Retrieved on 26 February 2013.
- https://www.mod.gov.rw/ministry/agencies.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "The Minister". Ministry of Defence. Archived from the original on 23 December 2011. Retrieved 11 January 2025.
- 'Major General Murasira takes charge as the new Defence Minister', Ministry of Defence (Kigali),22 October 2018, accessed 29 October 2018, <https://mod.gov.rw/news-detail/?tx_ttnews%5Btt_news%5D=3925&cHash=d2570ee62d0c5cfac9daec33a48b81ea#.W9ZHFZMzbIU>
- "Rwanda President Kagame orders major military purge". The East African. 2023-06-07. Retrieved 2023-06-20.
