{"id":40015,"date":"2019-09-12T10:13:10","date_gmt":"2019-09-12T10:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/un-decorates-rwandan-police-peacekeepers-in-40015\/"},"modified":"2019-09-17T08:48:30","modified_gmt":"2019-09-17T08:48:30","slug":"un-decorates-rwandan-police-peacekeepers-in-40015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/un-decorates-rwandan-police-peacekeepers-in-40015\/","title":{"rendered":"UN decorates Rwandan Police Peacekeepers in Darfur"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The medal parade presided over by the Deputy Joint-Special Representative (DJSR) to UNAMID, Anita Ghebo was held at the mission headquarters.<\/p>\n<p>The decorated officers currently in the final phase of their one-year peacekeeping tour of duty, serve as Individual Police Officers (IPOs), whose tasks include mentorship and advisory.<\/p>\n<p>The medal awarding ceremony was also attended by Officer in Charge of Mission Support Mr. Prem Singh; acting UNAMID Police Commissioner, Mr. Sultan Azam Temuri; UNAMID Police Chief of Staff, Mr. Amadu Mannah; Capacity Building Team Coordinator, Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) Costa Joseph Habyara; Commanding Officer Rwanda Battalion, Lieutenant Colonel JB Rugema, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Ghebo applauded medal beneficiaries for their hard work towards the attainment of sustainable peace in Darfur.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is a great honor and pride for me to witness the Rwanda National Police Contingent being awarded UNAMID Medal to recognize your valuable hard work,\u201d Ghebo said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Rwandan Police officers are playing commendable roles towards the realization of the UNAMID mandate,\u201d she added.<br \/>\nShe thanked them for their resilience and standing challenges in protecting civilians and humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite the challenging climatic conditions in Darfur, the Rwanda Police contingents continued to serve in various capacities in UNAMID with distinction,\u201d Ghebo said.<\/p>\n<p>She reiterated that Rwandans are exemplary and serve with honor for which they should be extremely proud of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am delighted that this ceremony provides all of us an opportunity to appreciate your contribution to the Darfur peace process,\u201d she stated.<\/p>\n<p>Supt Karim Safari, who spoke on behalf of the medallists, reflected on RNP deployments since 2005 and Rwanda&#8217;s commitment to international peace.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda currently maintains more than 1000 Police peacekeepers in Darfur, South Sudan, Central Africa Republic (CAR) and Abyei.<\/p>\n<p>Supt. Safari thanked the people of Darfur for their partnership in restoring peace, and the support of the UN to effectively execute their duties.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32184 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/1-2869-e48b6.jpg\" alt=\"The medal parade presided over by the Deputy Joint-Special Representative (DJSR) to UNAMID, Anita Ghebo was held at the mission headquarters.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32185 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2-2622-ff4a9.jpg\" alt=\"Rwanda currently maintains more than 1000 Police peacekeepers in Darfur, South Sudan, Central Africa Republic (CAR) and Abyei.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32186 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/3-2235-7cd5a.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32187 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/4-1852-0ecb5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32188 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/5-1561-bca52.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-32189 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/6-1362-5f572.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty Rwandan police peacekeepers serving under the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Mission in Darfur (UNAMID),  were on Tuesday decorated with medals of service excellence.<\/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-40015","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\/40015","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=40015"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40015\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40015"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=40015"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=40015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}