{"id":44785,"date":"2021-11-11T06:26:41","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T06:26:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/drc-armed-forces-chief-of-general-staff-visits-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2021-11-11T06:39:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-11T06:39:24","slug":"drc-armed-forces-chief-of-general-staff-visits-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/drc-armed-forces-chief-of-general-staff-visits-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC Armed Forces Chief of General Staff visits Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Their discussions focused on the regional security situation and the fight against terrorist groups.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur delegation is here to discuss a framework of plans established with our neighboring countries in dealing with terrorist groups and other transnational threats. This conforms with recommendations from the African Union to combine effort in fighting threats that hinder our collective development,\u201d Gen Mbala Munsense said.<\/p>\n<p>Gen Mbala Munsense added that the discussions also looked at mutual efforts to prevent negative forces operating along both countries&#8217; borders in a bid to strengthen relationships &#8216;towards the mutual development of our people&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>On recent allegations that M23 elements conducted an attack on DRC territory from Rwanda and Uganda, the FARDC Chief of General Staff, Gen Mbala said: \u201cWe have opted to give time to the Expanded Joint Verification Mechanism (EJVM) to do its work and give us precisions on the situation.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-40025 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/drc-5.jpg\" alt=\"Gen Mbala  arrived in Rwanda on Wednesday 10th November 2021. \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-40026 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/drc_3.jpg\" alt=\"Discussions focused on the regional security situation and the fight against terrorist groups.\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-40024 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/drc_2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-40022 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/drc-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{{All photos: MoD}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Democratic Republic of Congo Armed Forces (FARDC) Chief of General Staff, Gen  Mbala Munsense C\u00e9lestin has come to Rwanda on an official visit. Upon arrival on Wednesday 10th November 2021, Gen Mbala and his delegation held bilateral discussions with the Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) Chief of Defence Staff, Gen Jean Bosco Kazura at RDF Headquarters, Kimihurura.}<\/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-44785","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\/44785","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=44785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44785"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=44785"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=44785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}