{"id":43109,"date":"2021-03-18T08:16:03","date_gmt":"2021-03-18T08:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/covid-19-vaccination-of-rwandan-peacekeepers-in-south-sudan-gets-underway\/"},"modified":"2021-03-18T08:15:23","modified_gmt":"2021-03-18T08:15:23","slug":"covid-19-vaccination-of-rwandan-peacekeepers-in-south-sudan-gets-underway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/covid-19-vaccination-of-rwandan-peacekeepers-in-south-sudan-gets-underway\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID-19: Vaccination of Rwandan peacekeepers in South Sudan gets underway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first day of the vaccination focused on Rwandan peacekeepers operating in the capital Juba and those serving under Interim Security Force for Abyei (UNISFA).<\/p>\n<p>Among those, who received their first shot of the vaccine on the first day are 356 Rwandan Police officers, who include 319 constituting Formed Police Unit (FPU) I and II deployed in Juba, 18 Individual Police Officers (IPOs) as well as 19 serving in UNISFA.<\/p>\n<p>Also vaccinated alongside Rwandan Police peacekeepers are 28 Police peacekeepers from other contributing countries as well as UN staff and a South Sudan Police officer, all who came voluntarily to get the first jab of the vaccine.  <\/p>\n<p>The vaccination exercise will continue in other states in South Sudan where Rwandan peacekeepers are deployed.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise started on Monday, March 15, with Rwandan peacekeepers serving under the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic (MINUSCA).<\/p>\n<p>There are 445 Rwandan Police peacekeepers deployed in MINUSCA, who include three contingents; two Formed Police Units (FPUs) and a Protection Support Unit (PSU), each composed of 140 peacekeepers.<\/p>\n<p>Others serve as Individual Police Officers (IPOs).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38104 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/csm__dsc0257_a954d4e1f3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38103 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/csm_20.42.27_8f74b91a26.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-38102 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/20.41.49.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwanda, on Wednesday, March 17, started vaccinating Police, military and Correctional contingents serving under the UN missions in South Sudan (UNMISS) and Abyei (UNISFA).}<\/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":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-43109","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\/43109","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=43109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43109"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43109"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}