\u201cRwanda doesn’t need mediation with Uganda. This moral equivalence should stop. If the Government of the United Kingdom wants to be helpful, it should rather pressure
\nKampala to release a hundreds of Rwandan citizens held incommunicado in CMI cells for more than two years and to stop supporting FDLR and RNC,\u201d he said in a tweet
\ncommenting on the interview UK ambassador to Rwanda, Jo Lomas held with The
\nChronicles. <\/p>\n
During the interview, Amb Jo Lomas responded on whether UK will help mediate the
\ncurrent conflict between Rwanda and Uganda. \u201cWe are happy to offer support if
\nneeded but actually we think that the solution is here in the region,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Rwanda accuses Uganda of violating fundamental rights of hundreds of Rwandans, whose names are known to the Government of Uganda, who have been killed, arrested, incarcerated without consular access and tortured, nor the close to one thousand illegally deported to Rwanda in inhumane conditions.<\/p>\n
The presence of armed groups and terrorist organizations hostile to Rwanda, including
\nRNC, FDLR, and others, who are supported in their activities, including recruitment, by
\ninstitutions and officials of the Government of Uganda are among other issues of which
\ndetails have been repeatedly communicated to the Government. <\/p>\n
During this month, Kenya\u2019s president Uhuru Kenyatta held talks with the president of
\nRwanda on the sidelines of the National Leadership Retreat in Gabiro from where he
\nwent to meet Uganda\u2019s president Yoweri Museveni at his office in Entebbe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Olivier Nduhungirehe has said that Rwanda doesn\u2019t need mediation with Uganda but the latter should rather address issues affecting Rwandans. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[69],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics-48","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\/39041","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39041\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39041"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39041"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}