{"id":36949,"date":"2018-02-10T15:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T15:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-sends-a-contingent-of-mechanized-infantry\/"},"modified":"2018-02-14T08:14:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-14T08:14:15","slug":"rwanda-sends-a-contingent-of-mechanized-infantry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-sends-a-contingent-of-mechanized-infantry\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda sends a contingent of Mechanized Infantry in S. Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The contingent led by Col Frank Karakire departed from Kigali International Airport on Saturday at around 10:00am to Juba.<\/p>\n<p>Though Rwanda has other units in different regions of South Sudan, it is the first time to deploy such unit.<\/p>\n<p> Speaking to the media, the RDF spokesperson, Lt Col Innocent Munyengango said that the mission of the contingent is to protect civilians in Juba City.<\/p>\n<p> \u201cTheir mission is to protect civilians and Juba City, it means that their prime responsibility is to protect everything in Juba,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said that the contingent was briefed on discipline before the departure, but added that Rwandans always exhibit good discipline in their missions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs others always do, that unit should also perform well the responsibilities,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, Rwanda has 6274 soldiers in different peace-keeping missions. In South Sudan alone, there are over 2300 from different units.<\/p>\n<p>The deployment follows a United Nations Security Resolution number 2304 of 2016 of 12 August 2016 that decided the deployment of a Regional Protection Force to the UNMISS.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23983 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abasirikare_920_barwanisha_imodoka_z_intambara_berekeje_i_juba_muri_sudan_y_epfo-6a859.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-23984 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/abasirikare_bari_guhabwa_impanuro-d1aba.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A contingent of 920 Rwanda Defence Force\u2019s (RDF) Mechanized Infantry Battalion has set off from Kigali to the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-36949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36949","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\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36949"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=36949"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=36949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}