{"id":2655,"date":"2012-07-04T05:20:23","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T05:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandan-peace-mission-in-s-sudan-celebraterate\/"},"modified":"2012-07-04T05:29:28","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T05:29:28","slug":"rwandan-peace-mission-in-s-sudan-celebraterate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandan-peace-mission-in-s-sudan-celebraterate\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandan Peace Mission in S.Sudan  Celebrates 50th Independence"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-1535 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/bndgf.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{On 1st July 2012, the Rwandan Contingent (UNMISS Juba) together with  Rwandan Community living in Republic of South Sudan (RCSS) organized and celebrated the 50th anniversary of Rwanda Independence and 18 years of Rwanda Liberation.}}<\/p>\n<p>Col. Charles Karamba, Deputy Chief of Staff  in Charge of Operation UNMISS, who elaborated on the history of Rwanda before and after Independence.<\/p>\n<p>The Contingent Commander, Brig. Gen. Andrew Kagame in his speech  stressed the importance of reflecting on Rwanda\u2019s past history and to build a better future, and reminded Rwandans in the Diaspora of their significant role in building their country and consolidating  what has been achieved.<\/p>\n<p>He highlighted the achievement by the Government of Rwanda through strong institutions notably the security institutions where RDF having ensured peace and security among the citizens, has further embarked on bringing peace to other parts of the World, more especially in the conflict zones.<\/p>\n<p>He further told them that, the State has responsibility to ensure security for all Citizens within the country and outside its border by citing examples of airlifting fellow Rwandans in Egypt and Libya where their security was at stake.<\/p>\n<p>The Chairman of RCSS  (Guest of  Honor) David Gatare,  also urged the audience  to take this moment  to reflect on the past  and the future and to enjoy what has  so far  been achieved  in Rwanda. <\/p>\n<p>He said of Rwanda\u2019s recognition on International arena which has contributed in boosting confidence of Rwandans.<\/p>\n<p>The event was attended by different guests from UNMISS headquarters, some of them are, Amb Joy Kanyange who now works with  the Government of South Sudan as UN Staff,  Fred Yiga Commissioner of Police UNMISS, Lt. Col. Nobutaka Matsuki Japanese Engineer Company Comdr and other UNMISS components. <\/p>\n<p>The event started at around 1600hrs in Rwandan Contingent Camp at Juba, and attracted about 200 Rwandans living in South Sudan (RCSS) and Rwandan Contingent members.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda Contingent Cultural Troupe entertained the audience.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{On 1st July 2012, the Rwandan Contingent (UNMISS Juba) together with Rwandan Community living in Republic of South Sudan (RCSS) organized and celebrated the 50th anniversary of Rwanda Independence and 18 years of Rwanda Liberation.}} Col. Charles Karamba, Deputy Chief of Staff in Charge of Operation UNMISS, who elaborated on the history of Rwanda before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[334],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-igihe-reporter"],"bylines":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":334,"name":"IGIHE Reporter","slug":"igihe-reporter","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2655\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2655"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}