{"id":41689,"date":"2020-07-15T13:23:18","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T13:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-peacekeeper-killed-in-car\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T09:41:31","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T09:41:31","slug":"rwanda-peacekeeper-killed-in-car","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-peacekeeper-killed-in-car\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda Peacekeeper killed in CAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The name of the dead Rwandan soldier has not been released. However, RDF confirmed to IGIHE that they were aware of the death of one of their soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>The United Nations Secretary General, Ant\u00f3nio Guterres, through his Spokesperson, St\u00e9phane Dujarric, said he strongly condemns this attack that targeted a MINUSCA convoy in Gedze, Nana-Mambere prefecture in the northwest of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Secretary-General expresses his deepest condolences to the family of the victim as well as to the people and Government of Rwanda. He wishes a speedy recovery to the injured,\u201d a statement from Guterres\u2019 office reads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Secretary-General recalls that attacks against United Nations peacekeepers may constitute war crimes under international law. He calls on the Central African Republic authorities to spare no effort in identifying the perpetrators of this attack so that they can be brought to justice swiftly,\u201d it adds.<\/p>\n<p>The Secretary-General reaffirmed that the United Nations will continue to support national efforts to advance peace and stability in the Central African Republic, working closely with the country\u2019s international partners.<\/p>\n<p>MINUSCA, the UN peacekeeping operation in the Central African Republic, works to protect civilians and support transition processes.<\/p>\n<p>The authorities and 14 armed groups, which included 3R, signed a Political Agreement for Peace and Reconciliation in February 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis criminal attack constitutes a new violation of the peace agreement by the 3R &#038; its leader Abass Sidiki\u201d, the UN mission said on Twitter.<\/p>\n<p>Rwanda is the third largest contributor to UN peacekeeping operations. There are 5342 RDF troops in Amisom, Minusca, Unamid, Unisfa and Unmiss.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-36198 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/eb2bvgtxqaalopf-72071.jpg\" alt=\"An RDF officer who was on UN Mission in the Central African Republic was killed in an attack as the other two were wounded by a group called 3R \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) officer who was on UN Mission in the Central African Republic was killed in an attack on July 13 as the other two were wounded by a group called 3R (Return, Reclamation and Rehabilitation).<\/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":[72],"byline":[2942],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-41689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/41689","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=41689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41689"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=41689"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=41689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}