{"id":37039,"date":"2018-02-28T15:57:52","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T15:57:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/car-president-touadera-decorates-rwandan\/"},"modified":"2018-02-28T15:57:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-28T15:57:41","slug":"car-president-touadera-decorates-rwandan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/car-president-touadera-decorates-rwandan\/","title":{"rendered":"CAR President Touadera decorates Rwandan peacekeepers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The awarding ceremony was presided over by President Touadera along with various members of his cabinet in a national event held at the presidential palace, Palais de la Renaissance, in Bangui City on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>In his address, President Touadera lauded the Government of Rwanda in general and Rwanda peacekeepers in particular for their professionalism, discipline and commitment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe recognise your efforts in bringing peace and stability in our country, your love and contribution to the peace and well-being of the Central Africans are highly appreciated\u201d President Touad\u00e9ra told Rwandan Contingent.<\/p>\n<p>The Commanding Officer of Rwanbatt 4, Lieutenant Colonel Emmanuel Nyirihirwe thanked the Central African Republic President, his government and the people of Central Africa for their warm hospitality and spirit of collaboration that enabled his unit complete successfully its mandate and mission.<\/p>\n<p>He cited some of the many operations Rwandans in MINUSCA jointly conducted with Central Africans to restore peace and normalcy in Bangui, Bria, Bocaranga and Pombolo.<\/p>\n<p>The Commanding Officer also thanked the MINUSCA leadership for their guidance and confidence entrusted in Rwanbatt 4 to be part of the President\u2019s VIP protection and that of other high-ranking dignitaries.<\/p>\n<p>He requested that the same hospitality and support be accorded to their replacement as has been the case over the years. <\/p>\n<p>The ceremony was also attended by members of Rwandan Diaspora in Central Africa Republic. The outgoing Rwanbatt 4 will start their rotation with their compatriots of Rwanbatt 5 on Wednesday February 28th 2018 after a year-long tour of duty in a routine relief operation in the place.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24185 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img-20180226-wa0042-14b0c.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24184 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img-20180226-wa0045-485d6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24183 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img-20180226-wa0051-2945f.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-24186 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img-20180226-wa0062-9310e.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President of the Central African Republic (CAR), Prof. Faustin Archange Touadera has awarded The Central African Recognition Medal (M\u00e9daille de Reconnaissance Centrafricaine) to officers and other ranks of Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) battalion named Rwanda Battalion 4 (Rwanbatt 4) serving under the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).<\/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":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-37039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37039","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=37039"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37039\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37039"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37039"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}