{"id":13450,"date":"2014-03-27T07:09:23","date_gmt":"2014-03-27T07:09:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-peacekeepers-open-bangui-beloko-road\/"},"modified":"2014-03-27T07:11:27","modified_gmt":"2014-03-27T07:11:27","slug":"rwanda-peacekeepers-open-bangui-beloko-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-peacekeepers-open-bangui-beloko-road\/","title":{"rendered":"RDF Peacekeepers Open Bangui-Beloko Road Blocked by Anti-Baraka"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{The key infrastructure road linking Bangui to Cameroun and Tchad was in the last 3 days not operational due to Anti-Baraka Militia that cut it off at PK 9 and Gobongo localities. }}<\/p>\n<p>They have blockaded the road using old vehicles, metal materials and stones then took defensive positions near the localities to stop any movement.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda Mechanized Infantry Battalion (RwaMechBatt1) serving in the African-led International Support Mission to the Central African Republic (MISCA) intervened on 25 March 2014 and cleared the road after hours fighting the Anti-Baraka.  <\/p>\n<p>Six Anti-Balaka militia died on spots and 1 weapon and a grenade were seized. Two Rwanda peacekeepers received minor injuries, received first aid and proceeded with their duties.<\/p>\n<p>The road had been blocked when a Humanitarian Convoy escorted by Burundian peacekeepers was about to reach Bangui from Beloko- Cameroun border. <\/p>\n<p>After clearing the road, the Humanitarian Convoy managed to proceed and reached Bangui on 25 March with 70 vehicles carrying humanitarian aids and commercial goods for Central Africa Republic citizens.<\/p>\n<p>RwaMechBatt1 peacekeepers first opened the 700 km humanitarian Corridor on 27 January 2014. Bangui and CAR had been cut off from supplies by armed groups controlling the Bangui-Cameroon main supply route that connects it to the sea port of Douala in Cameroon.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-4924 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/jb.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-4922 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/nm-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-4925 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bh-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-4923 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/nn-8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-4926 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/dng.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{The key infrastructure road linking Bangui to Cameroun and Tchad was in the last 3 days not operational due to Anti-Baraka Militia that cut it off at PK 9 and Gobongo localities. }} They have blockaded the road using old vehicles, metal materials and stones then took defensive positions near the localities to stop any [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000051238,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-13450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000051238,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13450.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13450.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13450.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13450.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13450.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13450.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13450\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000051238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13450"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=13450"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=13450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}