{"id":44723,"date":"2021-10-31T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-10-31T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwandan-peacekeepers-conduct-community-work-in-bangui\/"},"modified":"2021-11-01T06:05:48","modified_gmt":"2021-11-01T06:05:48","slug":"rwandan-peacekeepers-conduct-community-work-in-bangui","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwandan-peacekeepers-conduct-community-work-in-bangui\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwandan peacekeepers conduct community work in Bangui"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These activities held on Saturday 30th October 2021, included cleaning and medical services at March\u00e9 Miskin in 5th Arrondissement and March\u00e9 Petevo in 6th Arrondissement.<\/p>\n<p>The community work aims at sharing the practice of &#8216;Umuganda&#8217; as one of the homegrown solutions aimed at uniting people and help the community to protect their environment.<\/p>\n<p>After community work Rwandan peacekeepers provided medical care to the local population.  The health services included medical screening for non-communicable diseases such as blood pressure, obesity, and other diseases such as malaria where rapid tests were performed, and treatment provided to those who were positive.<\/p>\n<p>The Mayor of Bangui Capital City, Emile Gros Raymand Nakombo thanked Rwandan peacekeepers for their support in protecting civilians and participating in cleaning and protecting their environment.  <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe community work conducted today, is a lesson borrowed from Rwanda and will contribute to our country\u2019s development,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Rwabatt8 Contingent Commander Col Augustin Migabo urged the local population of Bangui to adopt community work concept (Umuganda) as a solution to ensure a clean and safe environment.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39928 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/peacekeepers_umu.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39926 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/cleaning_bangui.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-39927 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/peae.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{Rwandan Peacekeepers (RWABATT8, RWABATT9) serving under the United Nations Multidimensional Mission in Central African Republic (MINUSCA) in collaboration with Bangui City leadership and local population have conducted community work in 5th and 6th Arrondissement, Bangui Capital City.}<\/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-44723","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\/44723","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=44723"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44723\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44723"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44723"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44723"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44723"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44723"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}