{"id":55581,"date":"2025-09-11T11:21:48","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T11:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/over-280-rwandans-living-in-drc-return-home\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T10:41:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T10:41:48","slug":"over-280-rwandans-living-in-drc-return-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/over-280-rwandans-living-in-drc-return-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 280 Rwandans living in DRC return home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The group, who had been residing in the temporary camp in Goma, returned on September 9, 2025, following assessments by UNHCR staff, the agency\u2019s Director Filippo Grandi confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The repatriation follows an agreement reached on July 24 between Rwanda, the DRC, and UNHCR during a meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The parties pledged to continue cooperating to address challenges affecting both Rwandan and Congolese refugees, including facilitating voluntary returns for those who wish to go back.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, on August 25, UNHCR repatriated 533 Rwandans from the same Goma camp, and the agency said it will continue working with both countries to assist others willing to return.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-94258 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/rwand-3-66aa0.jpg\" alt=\"The repatriation follows an agreement reached on July 24 between Rwanda, the DRC, and UNHCR during a meeting in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than 280 Rwandans living in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) have voluntarily returned home, facilitated by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000094259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55581","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":2000094259,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rwand-3-66aa0logo.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rwand-3-66aa0logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rwand-3-66aa0logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rwand-3-66aa0logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rwand-3-66aa0logo.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/rwand-3-66aa0logo.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55581","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\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000094259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55581"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55581"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}