Rwanda reopens border with Uganda after three years

Rwanda returned to opens border with Uganda this Monday thereafter three years of closure, while the tensions between the two Central African countries reappears due to accusations of espionage Y support for dissidents. Rwanda has on several occasions accused Uganda of collaborating with the rebels planning to overthrow the government in Kigali, while Kampala, on the other hand, has accused Rwanda of carrying out illegal espionage operations in neighboring territory.

Through a tweet published last Friday, the Rwanda’s Foreign Minister declares that his country I would return a to open the front generally the January 31. “We are aware that there is a process in place to resolve the issues raised by Rwanda, as well as the commitments of the Government of Uganda to remove the remaining obstacles,” the politician said in the statement. .

the border leads closed since 2019, what it hurt enormous die business processes between the two countries. In terms of foreign trade, Rwanda has a corridor for the transport of goods born in the port of Mombasa, located on the shores of the Indian Ocean, and cross Kenya Y Uganda. The same route also connects Rwanda with Burundi and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. For some time, relations between Rwanda and Uganda have deteriorated mainly due to differences of opinion in matters of security Y politics derived from the historical relations between the two areas. Rwanda’s top leader, Paul Kagame, grew up in Uganda and participated as a member of the guerrilla in the disputes that brought Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni to power.

Exhausted by the pandemic

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After the decision to reopen the border, a meeting in Kigali Come in Kagame and Mouseveni’s son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who currently holds the post of army general. Kainerugaba has the support of many of the country’s population and many think it is already prepared adopt The charge who until now had been occupied by his father.

Restoring trade relations on the border between the two countries is an essential point in view of repair the fluency of their economies which were so many exhausted with the advent of pandemic and restrictions. Both Rwanda and Uganda are members of the trade group East African Community along with Kenya, Tanzania, Burundi and South Sudan.