{"id":41346,"date":"2020-05-11T12:42:00","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T12:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rdf-reports-shooting-incident-on-lake-rweru-in-bugesera\/"},"modified":"2020-05-13T17:22:04","modified_gmt":"2020-05-13T17:22:04","slug":"rdf-reports-shooting-incident-on-lake-rweru-in-bugesera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rdf-reports-shooting-incident-on-lake-rweru-in-bugesera\/","title":{"rendered":"RDF reports shooting incident on Lake Rweru in Bugesera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) reports that on Friday 8 May 2020, in Rweru sector of Bugesera district in the Eastern Province, <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA group of fishermen from Burundi illegally crossed into the Rwandan waters in Lake Rweru. While Rwanda Defence Force was ordering the fishermen to return back to their country, Burundian soldiers intervened from their side and started shooting at RDF; which retaliated.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) suffered no casualties during the gunfire exchange and the attackers returned back to Burundi, said the report.<\/p>\n<p>Lake Rweru\u2019s northern shore forms part of Rwanda\u2019s border with Burundi.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-35590 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/a96a3392-fa20-442e-b9a0-35819a746939-37605.jpg\" alt=\"The Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) reports that on Friday 8 May 2020, in Rweru sector of Bugesera district in the Eastern Province\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rwandan and Burundian soldiers exchanged gunfire on Friday at Lake Rweru in Bugesera District in the Eastern Province, said the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[2942],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","byline-nicole-kamanzi-m"],"bylines":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","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":null}],"contributors":[{"id":2942,"name":"Nicole Kamanzi M.","slug":"nicole-kamanzi-m","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":null}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41346","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41346"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41346\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41346"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41346"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}