{"id":38928,"date":"2019-03-05T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-05T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/foreign-affairs-minister-sezibera-denies-false\/"},"modified":"2019-03-06T09:41:08","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T09:41:08","slug":"foreign-affairs-minister-sezibera-denies-false","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/foreign-affairs-minister-sezibera-denies-false\/","title":{"rendered":"Foreign Affairs Minister Sezibera denies false reports of massive deployment at the border"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister observed this during a press conference this Tuesday, where he highlighted on Rwanda-Uganda bilateral ties after 986 Rwandans were sent back from Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>The border crossing at Gatuna has been closed since last week and Rwanda has advised its nationals to avoid traveling to Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>Ugandan Press reported on Monday that \u201carmed personnel\u201d from the Rwanda Defense Force were seen in areas along the border, citing intelligence sources.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those who know how Gatuna looks like, they know that it is a small and closed space which intersects with construction works,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere were no additional troops from our side. None. And even if we did, it wouldn&#8217;t be a problem since Rwanda has the right to deploy troops if the need arises, but in this case, we didn&#8217;t,\u201d Sezibera said, denying Ugandan Press allegations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe bilateral relations between Rwanda and Uganda will go well. It might be problematic at the moment, but it will get better. We are neighbors and there are always some issues between neighbors, but we are discussing this and it will change for the better,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister noted that the big issues at present between Rwanda and Uganda are three; Rwandans who are abducted, tortured or murdered, imprisoned in unknown locations in Uganda. The second being Uganda hosting its armed adversaries, RNC, and the third being the restriction of movement of Rwandan goods on the Ugandan Territory.<\/p>\n<p>Closure of the border crossing at Gatuna has temporarily crippled the movement of goods between the two countries.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28407 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/b079d111-055d-4727-a8f7-bb15147f85df-4b368.jpg\" alt=\"Foreign Affairs Minister Sezibera denies false reports of massive deployment at the border \" \/><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-28406 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/2-2266-bf872.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Foreign Affairs Minister and Government Spokesperson, Dr. Richard Sezibera, has denied reports in the Ugandan media that Rwandan troops have had been amassed at her border with Uganda. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-38928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homehighlights","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38928"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=38928"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=38928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}