{"id":37436,"date":"2018-05-07T13:00:32","date_gmt":"2018-05-07T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-deploys-new-mechanised-infantry-troop-to\/"},"modified":"2018-05-07T14:36:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-07T14:36:21","slug":"rwanda-deploys-new-mechanised-infantry-troop-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-deploys-new-mechanised-infantry-troop-to\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda deploys new Mechanised infantry troop to MINUSCA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The main body\u2019s first chalk of 238 troops of the Mechanised Infantry battalion departed from Kigali International Airport on Sunday at around 10:00am. <\/p>\n<p>According to RDF, the highly versatile and mobile Mechanised Infantry Unit, whose equipment were deployed with an advance party early April 2018, will operate in the whole MINUSCA Area of Operations (AOR).<\/p>\n<p>Before their departure, the peacekeepers were briefed by the RDF Army Chief of Staff, Lieutenant General Jacques Musemakweli who urged them to remain vigilant and focused on their mission as they maintain a very high level of discipline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe expect a lot from you. So, please demonstrate high level of discipline in any of your actions, think very fast and act with rationale,\u201d Musemakweli told the peacekeepers.<\/p>\n<p>The Commanding Officer of this newly deployed Mechanised Infantry Battle Group, Lt. Col. Charles Rutayisire told the media that the troops under his command are a combined arms grouping from various RDF units and formations that include Special Force, Mechanised Infantry, Air Force and Infantry Force. <\/p>\n<p>He revealed that the Battle Group will have the capabilities of using Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for reconnaissance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am quite optimistic that we will be effective in fulfilling our mission taking into consideration the equipment, personnel and support we got from our leadership,\u201d Rutayisire said.<\/p>\n<p>The 540-mechanised infantry Battle Group deployed on UN request is the third RDF unit to be deployed in support of MINUSCA after an Infantry Battalion and a Military Level 2 Hospital. Currently Rwanda has a total of 1,200 military personnel in Central African Republic.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25090 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/capturee.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-25089 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/png\/capture-19.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) yesterday  started the deployment of the main body of a Mechanised Infantry Battle Group to United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MUNUSCA). <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"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-37436","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\/37436","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\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37436"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=37436"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=37436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}