{"id":47888,"date":"2023-04-19T09:41:14","date_gmt":"2023-04-19T09:41:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/eacrf-denies-reports-of-new-clashes-between-m23-and-burundi-forces\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T09:42:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T09:42:38","slug":"eacrf-denies-reports-of-new-clashes-between-m23-and-burundi-forces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/eacrf-denies-reports-of-new-clashes-between-m23-and-burundi-forces\/","title":{"rendered":"EACRF denies reports of new clashes between M23 and Burundi forces"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the East African, EACRF Commander, Maj-Gen Jeff Nyagah made the disclosure as he addressed a press briefing in Goma on 18th April 2023. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have no evidence that Burundi EAC contingent engaged the M23 because to our understanding, Sake has been verified as an area that M23 vacated,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>However, Gen Nyagah said it is true that there was an incident in an area called Jerusalem, 13 kilometres from Sake, where a Burundi contingent on patrol came under attack.<\/p>\n<p>He underscored Burundian troops conducted themselves in a very professional way where they were able to capture seven members of armed group. <\/p>\n<p>The suspects were handed over to the Expanded Joint Verification Mechanism for processing, with the involvement of the DRC government.<\/p>\n<p>Nyagah expressed his confidence in the EACRF&#8217;s ability to work with the DRC government and the international community to achieve long-term peace in the region. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-47379 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/m23-drc-bbaed.jpg\" alt=\"EACRF has denied reports of new clashes between M23 and Burundi forces.\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{The East African Community Regional Force (EACRF) has denied recent claims of fresh clashes between the M23 armed group and Burundi forces. } <\/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-47888","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\/47888","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=47888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47888\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47888"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=47888"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=47888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}