{"id":46990,"date":"2022-11-08T07:21:04","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T07:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/drc-admits-that-its-fighter-jet-violated-rwanda-s-airspace\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T07:28:07","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T07:28:07","slug":"drc-admits-that-its-fighter-jet-violated-rwanda-s-airspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/drc-admits-that-its-fighter-jet-violated-rwanda-s-airspace\/","title":{"rendered":"DRC admits that its fighter jet violated Rwanda\u2019s airspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday 7th November 2022, the Government of Rwanda released a statement indicating that a fighter jet Sukhoi-25 belonging to Congolese Army (FARDC) violated its airspace and briefly landed at Rubavu Airport in Western Province.  <\/p>\n<p>The jet touched down at the airport at 11h20.  <\/p>\n<p>On Monday evening, DRC Ministry of Communication also released a statement acknowledging that the country\u2019s \u2018unarmed reconnaissance jet accidentally entered Rwanda\u2019s airspace\u2019. <\/p>\n<p>The violation followed escalating tensions between Rwanda and DRC over reciprocal accusations related to the fight between Congolese Army and M23 rebel group.  <\/p>\n<p>DRC accused Rwanda of supporting the rebel group, a claim which Rwanda has repeatedly rejected but accused DRC of working with the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR) during the fighting with M23.  <\/p>\n<p>FDLR is a terrorist group formed by individuals responsible for the 1994 Genocide against the Tutsi.  <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-45111 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/recently-dr-congo-deployed-sukhoi-25-fighter-jets-at-goma-airport-near-rwandan-border-1.jpg\" alt=\"DRC has admitted that its fighter jet violated Rwanda\u2019s airspace.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has admitted that its military jet violated Rwanda\u2019s airspace but explained that the incident happened by accident.}<\/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-46990","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\/46990","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=46990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46990\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46990"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=46990"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=46990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}