Kagame is to fulfill President Museveni and again birthday social gathering of Ugandan leader’s son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba.
Published On 24 Apr 2022
Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame has arrived in Uganda, making his first seek recommendation from to the nation in four years because the relationship between the 2 East African nations improves following prolonged-simmering tensions.
Public broadcaster Rwanda Broadcasting Agency mentioned on Sunday that Kagame had arrived in Kampala to fulfill his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni and again the 48th birthday social gathering of Museveni’s extremely efficient son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who has been instrumental within the rapprochement between the 2 neighbours.
Kainerugaba has played a key role in repairing prolonged hostile kinfolk with Kigali, including holding talks with Kagame that led to a reopening of the land border in January after three years of closure.
The Ugandan high price in Kigali mentioned Kagame used to be on “a deepest seek recommendation from”, including that Kainerugaba and security minister Jim Muhwezi had been among the many senior authorities officers who obtained the Rwandan leader.
Kainerugaba, who heads Uganda’s land forces and serves as a assorted presidential adviser, has beforehand referred to Kagame as “my uncle” on Twitter.
“Those who fight him are preventing my family. They must peaceful all watch out,” he wrote in January.
Unstable ties
The seek recommendation from comes weeks after Uganda supplied the deportation of a number one resolve belonging to the banned opposition community Rwanda Nationwide Congress (RNC), which Kigali considers a “terrorist” outfit.
The reported presence on Ugandan soil of rebels in search of to fall Kagame has been a prolonged-running sore in kinfolk between the 2 neighbours.
Kainerugaba had promised to crack down on the RNC, which used to be primarily based in 2010 by weak Rwandan army chief Kayumba Nyamwasa and ex-see boss Patrick Karegeya who both changed into fierce Kagame critics.
Kagame closing visited Uganda in March 2018 on Museveni’s invitation for deepest talks on bilateral, regional and international concerns.
Even supposing the 2 males had been terminate allies within the 1980s and 1990s, the 2 international locations later fell out over mutual accusations of espionage, abductions and toughen for rebels.
The Uganda-Rwanda border used to be unexpectedly closed in 2019 as tensions spiralled, however used to be reopened in January this year in a major label of warming ties.
Even supposing Kainerugaba has many times denied claims he intends to be triumphant his 77-year-aged father – considered one of Africa’s longest-serving leaders – observers tag his speedy upward thrust by Uganda’s army ranks as proof that he’s being groomed for the tip job.