{"id":67115,"date":"2016-04-01T01:11:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/4-april-2016\/"},"modified":"2016-04-01T01:11:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T23:11:00","slug":"4-april-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/4-april-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"4 April 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span dir=\"ltr\"> JUBA, South Sudan, March 31, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>4 April marks the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action. This day aims to\u00a0raise awareness about landmines and the progress toward their eradication, and is a day that reminds us\u00a0of the devastating effects of landmines and other explosive remnants of war (ERW).\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>UNMAS South Sudan, in partnership with the South Sudan National Mine Action Authority (NMAA), will\u00a0take part in a worldwide campaign to bring attention to mine action by holding a large awareness-raising\u00a0event at the Nyakuron Centre in Juba on 4 April, as well as smaller events in towns across South Sudan.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p \/>\n<p>The theme for the commemoration is: Mine Action is Humanitarian Action, which will feed into the\u00a0Secretary-General\u2019s \u201cagenda for humanity\u201d to be set at the first-ever World Humanitarian Summit in May\u00a02016. Linking mine action with humanitarian action promotes the lifesaving elements of mine action work\u00a0and the enabling role it plays for other humanitarian interventions.<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>You are warmly invited to the Nyakuron Centre, Juba to commemorate the day with us, find out more\u00a0about mine action in South Sudan and to join in the fun. We also have commemoration events taking\u00a0place in Bor, Duk Padiat, Jalhak, Kodok, Melut, Pagak, Kapoeta and Torit .<\/p>\n<p \/>\n<p>The Juba event details are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>Date: Monday, 4 April 2016<\/p>\n<p>Time: 09:30am<\/p>\n<p>Venue: Nyakuron Centre, Juba<\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JUBA, South Sudan, March 31, 2016\/APO (African Press Organization)\/ &#8212; 4 April marks the International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action. This day aims to\u00a0raise awareness about landmines and the progress toward their eradication, and is a day that reminds us\u00a0of the devastating effects of landmines and other explosive remnants of war [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4584],"tags":[428,4585,830],"class_list":{"0":"post-67115","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-africa-news-2","7":"tag-africa","8":"tag-apo","9":"tag-news","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}