{"id":39897,"date":"2019-08-24T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rdf-gets-two-trophies-at-the-eac-military-games\/"},"modified":"2019-08-25T06:49:30","modified_gmt":"2019-08-25T06:49:30","slug":"rdf-gets-two-trophies-at-the-eac-military-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rdf-gets-two-trophies-at-the-eac-military-games\/","title":{"rendered":"RDF gets two trophies at the EAC Military Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>RDF men\u2019s football has emerged the best overall team after securing 9 points and only losing one game, whereas the basketball side won all games and the women\u2019s volleyball team scooped the bronze medals.<\/p>\n<p>President Uhuru Kenyatta presided over the closing ceremony of the EAC Military Games and Cultural Events 2019. <\/p>\n<p>Also present at the ceremony was the RDF Chief of Defence Staff (CDS), Gen Patrick Nyamvumba.<\/p>\n<p>President Kenyatta underscored that EAC Military Games and Cultural Event has become a fundamental pillar of regional integration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has helped in deepening and widening cooperation among partner states which resonates well with our efforts to build bridges of unity and fraternity within our region as well as our continent,\u201d he said.  <\/p>\n<p>South Sudan will host the next edition of the annual military games in 2020.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31677 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ea-games2.jpg\" alt=\"President Uhuru Kenyatta presided over the closing ceremony of the EAC Military Games and Cultural Events 2019.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31678 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/5d601d5214ba2572321350.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31679 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/5d6145167642e722562490.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-31680 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ecp8cnpw4aa1ntq.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) football and basketball teams yesterday received two trophies following the just concluded East African Community Military Games that were taking place in Nairobi, Kenya for the last two weeks.<\/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-39897","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\/39897","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=39897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39897"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39897"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}