Your source for credible news Issue no 028
March, 2021
Museveni’s destabilization of Rwanda is hurting Uganda
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The Guardian not allowing common sense to prevail in the debates around the Rwanda-Arsenal deal? Page 2
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Uganda inflicts illegal detention and torture on another five Rwandans, dumps them at border Page 3
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Ian Birrell needs to stop fooling himself Page 5
Charles Kazooba’s article in Sky News Uganda would be hilarious if it didn’t touch on serious issues affecting the East African bloc with the aim of misinforming the public. The title itself “Kagame leaves East Africa more wounded” should change to match the content. Instead, “Museveni’s open support for terrorist groups targeting Rwanda is hurting Uganda’s economy” would be more suitable as a title. Page 8 Get a free copy of our e-paper
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The Guardian not allowing common sense to prevail in the debates around the Rwanda-Arsenal deal?
By The New Times Last week Barney Ronay published an article in The Guardian UK with the title “Does Arsenal’s Visit Rwanda shirtsleeve deal remain a ‘compelling fit’? He was referring to Rwanda’s sponsorship deal with Arsenal Football Club where the latter promotes the “Visit Rwanda” brand. This is indeed a worthy question for debate. Unfortunately, Mr. Ronay does not address it with reason. As a result, he allows hostility towards the Rwandan government to lead the way in his framing of the debate and ends up misleading. He gets out of the gates with a bizarre formulation that “the situation there [in Rwanda]” is of “international concern”. By this, he refers to unsubstantiated allegations of “deaths in custody, enforced disappearances and torture raised by the UK government that, in his view, should compel Arsenal to rescind this mutually beneficial partnership with Rwanda. These allegations were dead on arrival when their main source
that the UK government relied on was Human Rights Watch (HRW). Rwanda has been the cemetery of HRW’s reputation through a series of blunders that were documented by former U.S. official, Richard Johnson, who demonstrated that HRW has an axe to grind against the Rwandan government and that its advocacy on Rwanda is “a political advocacy which has become profoundly unscrupulous in both its means and its ends”. Scholars like Phil Clark have questioned the organisation for its shameless advocacy that has persistently opposed the transfers and extraditions of genocide suspects to face justice in Rwanda, to say the least about dubious reports where “victims of “extrajudicial killings” turned out to be alive. But it’s not just Rwanda that has buried the phony organisation whose reputation has sunken after a series of blunders, including rampant corruption. In other words, this is not an organisation whose work any serious entity would reference as a basis for taking decisions that
affect mutually beneficial relations. On the contrary, it warrants a decision on the part of Arsenal FC to reinforce its partnership with Rwanda by not only committing to “raising awareness of the country as a luxury holiday destination” but, more importantly, to actively challenge those, like Ronay, that wish to sabotage Rwanda’s incredible story of “culture, heritage and transition.” This would demonstrate the kind of moral clarity that eludes Ronay and Human Rights Watch. Maybe with time Arsenal would bring some clarity to Ronay. First, no reasonable person still believes, for instance, that Paul Rusesabagina was “bundled on to a plane in Dubai to face what his family has called a sham trial on terrorism charges” as Ronay continues to insist despite evidence that includes Bishop Niyomwungere’s testimony that even Rusesabagina could not challenge when given the opportunity to do so during his court hearing last week proving that the terror suspect found himself in Rwanda on his own volition without any iota of coercion.
As a result of these proceedings, no reasonable person still believes that Rwanda had no legitimate grounds to bring the terror suspect before the courts despite what until that time were distractions pushed by the mainstream media that attempted to render insignificant Rusesabagina’s publicly stated and unreserved support to the FLN terror grouping. Ronay suggests that by partnering with Rwanda Arsenal risks damaging its reputation when in fact it is The Guardian whose standing as a credible newspaper is damaged by rehashing his discredited views. This is despite the wise remarks of fair-minded readers whose well-intentioned commentary is a cautionary tale for The Guardian in its quest to preserve its reputation. On its part, The New York Times has salvaged its reputation with the publication of Joshua Hammer’s insightful piece on the Hollywood “hero” turned terrorist leader. In light of the evidence against Rusesabagina, the focus should shift to transnational
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terrorism and how to enhance cooperation to fight it. Freedom House’s distorted advocacy, which Ronay regurgitates uncritically, attempts to frame the fight against terrorism as “transnational repression.” Rather than advocate for the apprehension of terrorists wherever they may be, this thinking is a shot in the arm of terror groups; it blurs the line between legitimate and legal actions by the Rwanda government and dubious allegations of human rights violations. The war global war on terror, if it really also includes the protection of African lives, could use more clarity and less confusion. The sooner the better for this
kind of clarity for everyone involved. That’s because as more evidence is uncovered in Rusesabagina’s case, questions will arise as to why this man was not arrested sooner, in Europe or America, despite an international arrest warrant issued by Rwanda. This indifference will shed further light on the question of why other terrorist groups that are hell-bent on overthrowing the government of Rwanda through violent armed struggle, including remnants of genocidal forces, continue to find safe haven mainly in Europe, as Honourable Andrew Mitchell has underscored regarding the obligation of the United Kingdom, for example. If everyone took their responsibility seriously, it would bring an end to the status quo of
indifference to criminality, by those who purport to believe in the rule of law, and ensure that these criminal groups that have evaded accountability since are brought to book. After all, these are what the commonwealth values are about: to bring suspects to court, any court, even when others summarily execute them. As a member of the commonwealth, it’s important that Rwanda’s culture and heritage constitute these shared values. In this regard, Arsenal is a pioneer in bringing Rwanda to the British people and helping to indirectly challenge negative perceptions about the Rwandan people. Three years after the deal, contemptuous arguments that ques-
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tion Rwanda’s investment on grounds of its low-income and aid recipient status have lost track and Ronay should know this much since he recognizes “that the campaign has been a success, lifting overall tourism numbers by 8%” and that “Rwanda has a functioning tourist industry”. The debate should now shift to how to continue this partnership in the midst of a pandemic that has affected the tourism industry worldwide and in terms beneficial to both partners. But such debate cannot take place in the toxic environment created by the likes of Ronay and facilitated by The Guardian. Source: The New Times – Rwanda
Uganda inflicts illegal detention and torture on another five Rwandans, dumps them at border By Patience Kirabo Uganda authorities have unceremoniously dumped five Rwandan nationals at the Kagitumba One-Stop Border Post following a period of illegal incarceration,
and torture. This took place Sunday evening, 07 March. The five men include Michel Matabaro 58, Tresor Hirwa 30, David Rukundo 25, Patrick Rugema 22, and Muhammad
Ndaheranwa aged 25. Matabaro, who hails from Kayonza District, had been living in Uganda since 2016. He says that he was arbitrarily arrested in Kyenkwanzi on January 24, this
year by men that turned out to be agents of Uganda’s Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence, CMI. Their accusation against Matabaro was that he is a
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Four of the five Rwandans dumped by Ugandan authorities at Kagitumba Border Post.
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>> From page 3 Uganda authorities have unceremoniously dumped five Rwandan nationals at the Kagitumba One-Stop Border Post following a period of illegal incarceration, and torture. This took place last Sunday evening, 07 March. The five men include Michel Matabaro 58, Tresor Hirwa 30, David Rukundo 25, Patrick Rugema 22, and Muhammad Ndaheranwa aged 25. Matabaro, who hails from Kayonza District, had been living in Uganda since 2016. He says that he was arbitrarily arrested in Kyenkwanzi on January 24, this year by men that turned out to be agents of Uganda’s Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence, CMI. Their accusation against Matabaro was that he is a member of the ADEPR Church, a Pentecostal denomination with roots in Rwanda. Businessman Hirwa, who went to Kampala in early 2017 – crossing legally through the Cyanika Immigration and Emigration offices to start-up a clothes and shoe business – had been conducting his work free of trouble for the past three years. He says his business was growing, until
he was arrested last year, on September 22 by CMI agents with guns. He was accused of “illegal stay” in Uganda.
2020, in Kampala and was immediately detained at Mbuya Barracks on accusations of “espionage.”
25-year-old Rukundo went to Kenya last year for a business study leave, and then later decided to pass through Uganda on his way back. However, he was brutally arrested in Uganda by UPDF soldiers. These tried to extort him for money so as to release him from illegal custody. He told them he had no money. The soldiers detained him for five more days and later handed over to CMI. The latter took Rukundo to Mbuya Military Barracks – to their torture dungeons. He says they accused him of “spying for Rwanda”, sometimes changing it to “illegal stay in Uganda.”
These men have suffered a similar pattern of victimization that has befallen very many fellow Rwandans (or Ugandans with Rwandan roots) in Uganda ever since the Kampala regime decided to work with terrorist groups seeking to destabilize Rwanda.
Rugema was arrested in Ntungamo for alleged espionage by Ugandan security operatives who detained him at Makenke Military Barracks in Mbarara. From there they transferred him to CMI, Mbuya, where they detained him for more than a year. Mudaheranwa on his part went to Kampala from DRC in Bunagana in 2018 for a business venture, dealing in motor vehicle repair. He had set up his small business until his arrest on September 23,
Ugandan President Museveni, in his working with groups like Kayumba Nyamwasa’s RNC as proxies in his plot against Rwanda, tasked his security agencies, spearheaded by CMI, to assist, and facilitate RNC in whatever it did. One of the strategies of recruitment that RNC together with CMI hit upon was to randomly abduct, or kidnap Rwandan nationals that happened to be traveling to Uganda or that already lived there. Uganda Border Police would randomly pull Rwandans off buses or other public transportation vehicles whom they would then accuse of offenses like “illegal travel”, or “illegal stay” in Uganda. They would detain them in filthy cells, later on to for vehicles to pick them – for transporta-
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tion to Mbuya CMI headquarters. The torture in dungeons was mainly to break them, so that they would accept to be recruited into RNC as fighters. But this strategy, according to many reports, did not work very well. Very many that they attempted to recruit refused, rather then betray their country. Many were tortured to near death. More than a few died, the notorious incident being that of one Emmanuel Mageza who in early 2019 was tortured to the point of losing his mind. When CMI took him to Butabika mental health facility in Kampala, he died of his injuries. CMI and RNC also picked on those that looked well off, businessmen, Rwandans with property, houses, farms, or livestock, as a means to harvest money from them. Incidents are countless when Rwandans running successful businesses have been picked, in Kampala, Mbarara, Masaka and elsewhere, and accused of “spying”, or “kidnap”, or, “illegal weapons possession.” These people have suffered horrendous ordeals: the best known examples being Rene Rutagungira, Emmanuel Rwamucyo, Augustin Rutayisire, and many others who only fell victim to the Ugandan regime’s machinations with RNC. They suffered incarceration with no trial. They were tortured with methods like waterboarding, electrocution, emersion in ice baths, suspension by thumbs, and other cruel and inhuman abuse. When they were robbed of their money, and other property. In all this, they were never accorded access to consular access by Rwandan embassy officials – in contravention to international conventions. The fate of the latest five victims is similar: incarceration with torture, no trial for them to defend themselves against the accusations against them. “Kampala has shown it never had any interest in fulfilling agreements such as the Luanda MoU (of August 2019) to restore good relations with Rwanda,” said a security analyst.
One of the five Rwandans dumped by Ugandan authorities at Kagitumba Border Post.
One of the provisions of the MoU is to desist from mistreatment of each other’s nationals.
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Ian Birrell needs to stop fooling himself
By The New Times Rwanda There is something laughable about Western columnists who act as if President Kagame owed them something. Ian Birrell’s latest article where he laments that the Rwandan President “fooled” him illustrates this sense of entitlement that is observable in Western media circles. The recurring story generally starts with a white man fantasizing about a mythical character that corresponds to a submissive foreign leader, then comes the time when the white man opposes the real person to his fantasies. Same script, different cast, with predictable ending: crocodile tears of the white man claiming he was fooled by someone who never knew they had that kind of relationship, to begin with. Reading Birrell’s article one can’t help but think of a situation involving a predatory stalker of
an unsuspecting victim. Birrell thinks he had some kind of intimate relationship with the President of Rwanda. How else would one explain his bizarre claim that Kagame fooled him? The fact is, President Kagame made promises to Rwandans. He, for instance, promised that, under his careful watch, Rwanda would never experience again the kind of disaster that befell it 26 years ago and assured safety for her people, and it is indeed one of the safest countries in the world. On the measure of safety, for example, Rwandans cannot say that Kagame fooled them. He promised to defend the dignity of Rwandans and promised them that no Rwandan was meant to remain poor despite the daunting task. “What we have set out to do is not for the half-hearted, let alone the heartless,” Kagame told Rwandans while inviting them to dream big and to work with one
another in pursuit of unity. 21 years later down the road, more Rwandans are getting out of poverty while there are working tirelessly to build an inclusive society. Kagame is keeping his promises. But most importantly, it is worth reminding that President Kagame warned anyone with ideas of “bringing war to Rwanda” that “they should also be aware of the danger they face”. Unfortunately, neither Birrell nor his friend Paul Rusesabagina listened to this warning. Otherwise, they would have noticed this much: President Kagame is a man of his word. Rwandans know this, which is why they are eager whenever the President tours the country during his regular outreach calendar; they talk to the President knowing well that once he promises to address their grievances, no effort is spared in that endeav-
or. Thus, it is rather strange to hear Birrell – like Roger Boyes before him -, a British citizen, claiming that he was fooled by a president he didn’t vote into office, a leader who never promised him anything. As argued before, “If aid, [in this case British tax payers’ money], was for improving the lives of recipients, then it has done what it ought to do. However, by denigrating Rwanda’s political choices and its need to guarantee security for its citizens, [Birrell] clumsily attempts to turn aid into a tool for political control”. Imagine Birrell thinking that he controls Kagame’s choices! Logically, nobody fooled Birrell or donors “as no promises are made beyond the targets for which aid is sought and given.”
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>> From page 5 Whatever illusions they develop beyond that is no one else’s responsibility but their burden to carry. The only explanation for Birrell’s ridiculous claim is obvious: He had unreasonable expectations built around his own fantasies. And like a man whose fantasy world is crumbling, Birrell is shocked to learn that “democracy is not defined by the West”. His resentment, similar to that experienced by abusive men whose pathological desire to exert control on their targets is met with resistance, is such that the perpetrator resorts to rumor-mongering and smearing with the aim of attracting hostility towards his victim. Indeed, reading Birrell’s arguments, one wonders whether the resentment has also obliterated his cognitive abilities. For instance, Birrell describes the adoption of English as a
medium of instruction in Rwanda as an attempt to evade “rising criticism in the Francophone world of his [Kagame] rule and the RPF’s role in the 1994 bloodshed”. One wonders, how a country like France, whose officials were deeply involved with the perpetrators of the Genocide against the Tutsi, and in whose embassy in Kigali the genocidal government was sworn-in, could get the audacity to criticize anything about Rwanda or to shift the world’s attention to the RPF’s “role”. Clearly, if Birrell’s world wasn’t upside down, he wouldn’t use the hostility of, and the desperate attempts by, some French officials to evade their responsibility as a tool for his smear campaign. Birrell tantrums are never-ending. He further argues that the decision to hold the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting in Kigali stems from “the legacy of
guilt over the world’s failure to prevent the sickening genocide.” But, if such guilt existed, the UK government would have prosecuted – or extradited to a third-party state where prosecution was possible – the five genocide fugitives that are still roaming free on its soil given its refusal to hand them over to Rwanda; the UK would not be shielding perpetrators of the crime to which it has guilt. Indeed, if such guilt existed, the Western world wouldn’t have become a safe haven for genocide fugitives and the hotbed of the promoters of the Hutu Power ideology, which underpinned the genocide against the Tutsi. These fugitives and genocide deniers form the same circles that Paul Rusesabagina had called upon to support his “presidential bid” that led him to a Rwandan prison. Evidently, if Birrell’s cognitive abilities were not impaired by his hatred for the man who shattered
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his fantasies, he would read Joshua Hammer’s article in the New York Times about his hero’s slide to terrorism that was incubated in those genocidal circles, and maybe he (Birrell) would progressively reconnect with reality. But alas! If Birrell were to concede to the legitimate grounds of the Rwandan government to bring Rusesabagina before justice, the question would still remain as to whether he (Birrell) will one day come to terms with the idea that President Kagame has an exclusive and intimate relationship with Rwandans, not with some British unhinged maniac with an inflated sense of entitlement. No one is fooling Barrell and it is time that he stopped fooling himself and end the stalking, name-calling and constant harassment informed by the illusion of a non-existent relationship. Source: The New Times – Rwanda
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Museveni’s desperation finds in Rusesabagina’s foundation a partner in crime By Albert Rudatsimburwa As pressure mounts on Museveni’s government, smear campaigns orchestrated by the Uganda’s intelligence services and targeting Rwanda have increased in number, and this despite the fact that they have proved to be inefficient in the past. But desperate times calls for desperate measures and the regime in Uganda is determined to divert attention away from the atrocities being carried out by its security agencies. In that desperate effort, Uganda’s intelligence has published a series of articles title “The Blood On Our Hands” as part of the #FreeRusesabagina campaign and hired a Texas-based PR distributor company to promote them as part of Uganda’s anti-Rwanda propaganda. The company, PRLog, helps to “increase traffic and visibility…to search engines, news websites, bloggers and journalists,” according to information on its website. The first article is about a purported plan to assassinate Rusesabagina as he attempts to flee from custody. Part two tries to portray President Kagame is the cause of violence in the great lakes region. While part three repeats the now discredited narrative of Rusesabagina’s abduction from Dubai. Kampala is hoping that by spamming the internet with anti-Rwanda propaganda it will divert attention away from the current violent and widespread repression conducted by Uganda’s security forces before, during, and after elections there. But this will backfire like similar schemes Kampala has tried in the recent past. For example, in January this year, the Ugandan army issued a statement claiming that it had conducted a raid against al-Shabab hideouts in Somalia, killing “189 al Qaeda-linked fighters and destroying a number of military hardware.” The story turned out to be a hoax and Reuters withdrew it from their website. Many analysts in the region rightly attributed the deliberate misinformation to a desperate attempt by Museveni to prove that he is important to the International community in
Terror suspect Paul Rusesabagina, left. His arrest has triggered a torrent of anti-Rwanda propaganda, with Ugandan President Museveni’s misinformation machine right in the mix.
the global fight against terror “at a time when he was under severe pressure” for his brutal treatment of opposition supporters, according to those analysts. As embarrassing as that move was, the hoax had served Kampala’s purposes. It had spread like wildfire with major newspapers publishing the story in their headlines. For days, attempts to look for Uganda related news or to read news on those major newspapers using search engines such as google would invariably lead internet users to the hoax, thereby keeping them away from more disturbing news of the brutal violence against opposition supporters. Although the hoax had temporally achieved one of its propaganda objectives, it couldn’t stand the test of time. The reality of Museveni’s violence caught up with everyone as condemnations rained on the regime, with major donors threatening economic sanctions. The latest Uganda intelligence smear campaign targeting Rwanda has similar objectives. It aims at keeping Rwanda in the news for all sorts of wrong
reasons. It is meant to advance two implicit ideas simultaneously. One, according to the series, to insinuate that it is Rwanda’s institutions, and not Ugandan’s, that are on the verge of collapsing. Two, portray Uganda’s abuses as bearable, “we might be killing Ugandans but Rwanda has done worse. It has kidnapped a Hollywood hero.” It is obvious which country has collapsing and corrupt institutions and independent studies have ranked Rwanda’s judiciary that is trying Rusesabagina as among the top in Africa. Uganda is nowhere near the top (World Justice Rule of Law index ranks Rwanda 2nd in Africa 37th in the world and Uganda 27th in Africa and 117th in the world). On the issue of killings, Uganda is trying to spam the internet to conceal its killings of civilians. Rwanda is trying a terrorist who is accused of killing civilians. Shamelessly, this particular smear campaign that Uganda is promoting attempts to exploit the Black Lives Matter movement as if the victims of Rusesabagina’s FLN terror grouping were not Blacks. It is also cynical that a regime that is concealing killings
of its citizens by spamming the internet is defending a terrorist in the name of Black Lives Matter as if Ugandan lives are not Black.Evidently, Black Lives Should Matter in Uganda where hundreds are abducted, tortured and killed, with their bodies dumped on the streets or in remote areas with no regard to the value of their lives. For over two decades Museveni has tried to destabilize Rwanda and failed. He tried to recruit Rwandan officials and soldiers to destabilize their own country and he failed, except for the greedy who thought their country was for sale. He has tried to create proxy forces but they have been destroyed and the remnants are being reorganised by his intelligence services through a so called “ideology training center.” Now out of desperation he is hiring PR companies in the West to spam the internet with anti-Rwanda propaganda in order to conceal his crimes at home. But all this will backfire and he should know this much, if he has learned anything from history.
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Museveni’s destabilization of Rwanda is hurting Uganda By Alex Muhumuza Charles Kazooba’s article in Sky News Uganda would be hilarious if it didn’t touch on serious issues affecting the East African bloc with the aim of misinforming the public. The title itself “Kagame leaves East Africa more wounded” should change to match the content. Instead, “Museveni’s open support for terrorist groups targeting Rwanda is hurting Uganda’s economy” would be more suitable as a title. Kazooba’s admission that “Museveni stubbornly maintained close friendship with Rwandan dissidents such as tobacco magnate Tribert Rujugiro and former Rwandan chief of army staff General Kayumba Nyamwasa” is accurate except for the fact that the leader of the Rwandan National Congress (RNC), a terror group involved in a series of grenade attacks targeting Kigali in 2010, and the financier of the terror group are not what any reasonable person may describe as dissidents. In other words, Kazooba misrepresentation is as irrational as Museveni’s stubbornness. Being a champion of African solutions for Africa’s problems and a Pan-African at heart (in words and deeds unlike his Ugandan counterpart), President Kagame has repeatedly sought to resolve issues affecting the relations between Rwanda and Uganda, but to no avail. First through diplomatic channels as arrests of Rwandan nationals became widespread in Uganda. Then through high level meetings where he met with President Museveni on the sideline of the African Union Summit in Addis Ababa on the 29th January of 2018, and lastly by undertaking a State Visit in Kampala in March 2018. But, as underscored by Kazooba, President Museveni stubbornly refused to cut ties with terror groups hell-bent on destabilizing Rwanda. Instead, the abductions of Rwandan nationals continued as those who survived the ordeal were dumped at the border with Rwanda with-
out ever appearing before Ugandan courts. As a matter of fact, and despite allegations of spying, none was formally charged, which means these were acts of harassment not real concerns for spying. Meanwhile, Uganda’s support for the RNC persisted as the Museveni admitted to having held “accidental” meetings with RNC officials. In a last attempt to resolve these long-standing issues, President Kagame asked Angola and DRC to mediate. To date, Uganda has refused to implement the Memorandum of Understanding signed between the two countries, and RNC members are still roaming freely and conducting their recruitments and creating on behalf of the RNC its cadreship center in Uganda while Rwandan nationals continue to be arrested and taken to ungazetted detention centers. Instead of dealing with these causes of the boarder
closure, Museveni’s propagandists are lamenting. “As a result, …. Kampala lost more than $664 million’s worth of exports to Rwanda … during the three months the Gatuna border was closed, according to Uganda’s East African Community Ministry. In the period between August 2019 and August 2020, cumulative export earnings from Rwanda, according to Bank of Uganda, fell to just $5.1m (Shs19.2b) from $131.8m (Shs494b) in the same period between August 2018 and August 2019. Before the closure, Uganda had been fetching an average of at least $18m earnings per month. Rwanda’s minerals, tea, and coffee are transported to the port of Mombasa through Uganda. Now, more than 80 per cent of Rwanda’s imports pass through Tanzania,” Kazooba notes as if he wants Rwandan to provide Uganda more money to
fund the RNC. Obviously, support to terror groups has a price. One wonders why Kazooba doesn’t draw the obvious conclusion. That is, Museveni’s stubbornness is hurting Uganda’s economy and undermining regional integration. Logically, if Burundi and Rwanda have undertaken a process aimed at addressing issues affecting their bilateral relations, including the issue of the FLN terrorist group behind the 2018 attacks in Southern Rwanda, Museveni who is supposed to be the elder in the region and as such, an embodiment of wisdom, should do better than his Burundian counterpart. Yet, stubbornness seems to take over any other consideration, including sabotaging the efforts of other leaders in the region to build a strong East African Community.
A border point between Rwanda and Uganda. Business from Uganda has been very low ever since the Kampala regime’s harassment of Rwandans led to border closure.
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