This archive report was first published on 13 December 2019.
On Friday, officials from Uganda and Rwanda will meet in Kampala to discuss the implementation of a pact aimed at ending tensions between the two countries.
According to Ugandan government spokesperson Ofwono Opondo, the meeting will be attended by Angola and DR Congo, who are the facilitators to the Luanda agreement.
“Uganda and Rwanda will tomorrow [Friday] hold a follow-up meeting at Speke Resort Munyonyo to the one held in Kigali in September to concretize the issues in the Memorandum of Understanding signed in Luanda, Angola in August 2019,” Opondo tweeted.
The meetings are meant to fast-track the implementation of an agreement signed by both President Paul Kagame of Rwanda and President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda to end two-year long hostilities between the neighbours.
Key on the agenda for the Kampala meeting is the reopening of the two nations’ common border for goods and people, which has been closed since late February.
Business community and communities in both countries have suffered from the border closure, with Ugandan exporters desperate to access Rwanda and Burundi markets and Rwandan citizens running out of stock of popular Ugandan products.
