{"id":14324,"date":"2014-05-09T00:15:41","date_gmt":"2014-05-09T00:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/un-honors-senegalese-peacekeeper-with-courage\/"},"modified":"2014-05-28T08:13:34","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T08:13:34","slug":"un-honors-senegalese-peacekeeper-with-courage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/un-honors-senegalese-peacekeeper-with-courage\/","title":{"rendered":"UN Creats New Medal to Honor &#8216;Exceptional Courage&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-5662 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/yhf.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{Captain Mbaye Diagne (L) with collegues}<\/p>\n<p>{{The UN Security Council Thursday created a &#8220;Captain Mbaye Diagne Medal&#8221; to honor UN personnel who &#8220;demonstrate exceptional courage in the face of extreme danger&#8221; in their work.}}<\/p>\n<p>The medal is named after the Senegalese captain who &#8220;unarmed and in the face of extreme danger,&#8221; saved as many as a thousand Rwandans during the 1994 massacre against Tutsi in Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>The resolution, proposed by Jordan and unanimously approved, notes &#8220;with the deepest regret&#8221; that &#8220;the family of Captain Diagne never received, after his death, any expressions of appreciation from the headquarters of the United Nations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Diagne, a member of the peacekeeping force in Rwanda, saved hundreds of Rwandans by helping them cross roadblocks erected by Hutu militants, who were committing the genocide.<\/p>\n<p>He was killed while working in Rwanda on May 31, 1994, at age 36.<\/p>\n<p>Paying homage at the Security Council, Rwandan envoy Eugene-Richard Gasana broke off several times, overcome with emotion.<\/p>\n<p>The Senegalese ambassador, Abdou Salam Diallo, praised Diagne as &#8220;a worthy son of the United Nations, soldier for peace fallen as a hero.&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-5661 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/jjjjbn.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Captain Mbaye Diagne (L) with collegues} {{The UN Security Council Thursday created a &#8220;Captain Mbaye Diagne Medal&#8221; to honor UN personnel who &#8220;demonstrate exceptional courage in the face of extreme danger&#8221; in their work.}} The medal is named after the Senegalese captain who &#8220;unarmed and in the face of extreme danger,&#8221; saved as many as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000052071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-14324","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":2000052071,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14324.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14324.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14324.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14324.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14324.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton14324.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324","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=14324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000052071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14324"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=14324"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=14324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}