{"id":7768,"date":"2013-05-12T05:40:06","date_gmt":"2013-05-12T05:40:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rnp-rdf-contingent-in-uganda-for-field-training\/"},"modified":"2013-05-12T05:39:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-12T05:39:21","slug":"rnp-rdf-contingent-in-uganda-for-field-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rnp-rdf-contingent-in-uganda-for-field-training\/","title":{"rendered":"RNP, RDF Contingent in Uganda for Field Training Exercise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>{{A contingent of 2016 Rwanda National Police (RNP) and Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) officers arrived in Jinja, Uganda on May 9 to take part in the 2013 Eastern Africa Standby Force-Field Training Exercise (EASF-FTX) codenamed \u201cMashariki Salaam 2013.}}\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The contingent was received by the Director of the EASF Coordination Mechanism; Maj. Gen (retired) Cyrille Ndayirukiye, who wished them the \u201cbest\u201d during the 18-day intensive Exercise.<\/p>\n<p>He lauded member countries for honoring their commitment to send their officers to take part in EASF-FTX to further fight security threats in the region jointly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf they had not allowed your participation, our plans would remain on paper\u201d, said Maj. Gen Ndayirukiye.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the Exercise is in line with the establishment of Eastern Africa Standby Force which will be fully operational in 2015.<\/p>\n<p>The troops will be joining a regional multidimensional force comprising about 1,250 military, police and civilian components from EASF member countries.<\/p>\n<p>Maj. Gen Ndayirukiye was accompanied by the Exercise Director, Brig Gen N. Lakala, the Force Commander, Brig Gen J. Bakasumba and the Police Commissioner Aster Andualem.<\/p>\n<p>The Field Training Exercise \u2013 Mashariki Salaam 2013 literally translated as \u201cpeace in eastern \u2013 will officially be opened on May 19.<\/p>\n<p>The Exercise,\u201d brings together army and police officers from Rwanda, Kenya, Burundi, Ethiopia, Djibouti, Seychelles, Comoros and the host Uganda.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-2661 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/ghu-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>{RNP}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{{A contingent of 2016 Rwanda National Police (RNP) and Rwanda Defence Force (RDF) officers arrived in Jinja, Uganda on May 9 to take part in the 2013 Eastern Africa Standby Force-Field Training Exercise (EASF-FTX) codenamed \u201cMashariki Salaam 2013.}}\u201d The contingent was received by the Director of the EASF Coordination Mechanism; Maj. Gen (retired) Cyrille Ndayirukiye, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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-7768","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\/7768","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7768"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7768\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7768"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=7768"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=7768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}