{"id":45466,"date":"2022-03-17T07:23:26","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T07:23:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/un-awards-service-medal-to-rwandan-police-contingent-in-south-sudan\/"},"modified":"2022-03-17T07:29:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T07:29:06","slug":"un-awards-service-medal-to-rwandan-police-contingent-in-south-sudan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/un-awards-service-medal-to-rwandan-police-contingent-in-south-sudan\/","title":{"rendered":"UN awards &#8216;Service Medal&#8217; to Rwandan Police contingent in South Sudan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The medal pinning parade was held in Malakal, Upper Nile State, where the Rwandan contingent is deployed and operating.<\/p>\n<p>The colourful ceremony was presided over by the UNMISS Police Commissioner, Madam Christine Fossen.<\/p>\n<p>It was also attended by other high profile UN, diplomats and government officials as well as representatives from other contributing countries and South Sudan National Police Service (SSNPS).<\/p>\n<p>In her remarks, the Police Commissioner, Christine Fossen expressed appreciation to the decorated men and women for their &#8220;hard work, discipline, professionalism and commitment to achieve UNMISS mandate&#8221; especially during this challenging period of the  COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today, we recognise your hard work and sacrifice, your good cooperation with other agencies, your contribution to protection of civilians and ensuring durable peace in South Sudan,&#8221; Madam Fossen said.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Commissioner later met the Rwanda FPU-1 commanders, where she was briefed on the contingent operations and other human security activities conducted since it was deployed in South Sudan in April, last year.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41421 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ala-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41419 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/alala.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41420 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/alan.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41418 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/alam.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The United Nations, on Wednesday, March 16, decorated 240 officers of Rwanda Formed Police Unit-One (RWAFPU-1) with &#8216;Service Medal&#8217; in recognition of their outstanding contribution to its peacekeeping mandate under its mission in South Sudan (UNMISS).}<\/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-45466","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\/45466","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=45466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45466"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=45466"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=45466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}