{"id":54692,"date":"2025-06-28T12:05:33","date_gmt":"2025-06-28T12:05:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/last-batch-of-over-500-sadc-soldiers-exits-drc-through-rwanda\/"},"modified":"2025-06-28T12:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-28T12:11:07","slug":"last-batch-of-over-500-sadc-soldiers-exits-drc-through-rwanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/last-batch-of-over-500-sadc-soldiers-exits-drc-through-rwanda\/","title":{"rendered":"Last batch of SADC soldiers exits DRC through Rwanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The first contingent had departed from eastern DRC on April 29, 2025, comprising 13 military vehicles and 57 accompanying soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>The final group of SADC troops left Rubavu, located at the Rwanda-DRC border, on the morning of Saturday, June 28, 2025, at around 9:00 a.m. This final phase involved vehicles transporting the remaining soldiers.<\/p>\n<p>During this latest movement, IGIHE observed 15 vehicles carrying the troops as they departed.<\/p>\n<p>[Related article: Additional SADC equipment withdrawn from Goma through Rwanda->https:\/\/en.igihe.com\/news\/article\/additional-sadc-equipment-withdrawn-from-goma-through-rwanda]<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-89988\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/img_3066-4-8db5d.jpg\" alt=\"The last batch of SADC troops has withdrawn through Rwanda. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The last batch comprising 576 soldiers from the Southern African Development Community (SADC), who had been deployed on a mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for over a year, has returned home through Rwanda.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":2000089989,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-54692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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":{"id":2000089989,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/img_3066-4-8db5d.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/img_3066-4-8db5d.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/img_3066-4-8db5d.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/img_3066-4-8db5d.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/img_3066-4-8db5d.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/img_3066-4-8db5d.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54692","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=54692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000089989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54692"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=54692"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=54692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}