{"id":43323,"date":"2021-04-17T09:28:47","date_gmt":"2021-04-17T09:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/car-president-decorates-rwandan-peacekeepers\/"},"modified":"2021-04-17T09:57:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-17T09:57:50","slug":"car-president-decorates-rwandan-peacekeepers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/car-president-decorates-rwandan-peacekeepers\/","title":{"rendered":"CAR President decorates Rwandan peacekeepers"},"content":{"rendered":"

The awarding Ceremony was attended by cabinet ministers among other dignitaries. The event was held at the office of the President \u2018Palais de la Renaissance\u2019 in Bangui Capital city. <\/p>\n

Rwanbatt7 Commanding Officer was decorated with \u201cGrade de Commandeur\u201d; senior Officers received \u201cGrade d\u2019Officiers\u201d, junior Officers were decorated with \u201cGrade de Chevalier\u201d while other ranks were decorated with \u201cGrade de Etoile du M\u00e9rite Militaire\u201d<\/p>\n

The Head of State lauded the Government of Rwanda and MINUSCA for their efforts in bringing peace and stability in CAR since the mission started. <\/p>\n

\u201cI would particularly like to pay tribute to the courage of Rwandan peacekeepers and MINUSCA in general who have fulfilled their duty to the point of supreme sacrifice for the cause of peace. The citizens of CAR recognise efforts made to restore peace and security in our country,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

On behalf of Rwandan Contingent, the Unit Commander, Lt Col JB Safari thanked the President of CAR for the recognition of Rwanbatt7 contribution and also thanked the MINUSCA leadership for their full support in fulfilling their mission.<\/p>\n

The Rwandan peacekeepers, who were decorated on Thursday were deployed to CAR on 6th March 2020. They conducted various operations including protecting the Head of State, securing strategic sites in the capital city, Bangui and contributed to ensuring security during recent elections held in CAR.<\/p>\n

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{The President of the Central African Republic, Faustin Archange Touadera on Thursday awarded the Rwandan peace keepers (Rwanbatt7) serving under United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central African Republic MINUSCA with the Central African Recognition Medal for their contribution to the peace effort in CAR.}<\/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-43323","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\/43323","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=43323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43323\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43323"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=43323"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=43323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}