{"id":39886,"date":"2019-08-21T16:42:17","date_gmt":"2019-08-21T16:42:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/president-kagame-museveni-sign-peace-and-security\/"},"modified":"2019-08-24T12:20:26","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T12:20:26","slug":"president-kagame-museveni-sign-peace-and-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/president-kagame-museveni-sign-peace-and-security\/","title":{"rendered":"President Kagame, Museveni sign peace and security pact"},"content":{"rendered":"

The pact has been signed in Luanda, Angola today during a quadripartite summit bringing together the host President of Angola Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o; the President of Uganda, Museveni, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), Felix Tshisekedi and President of Rwanda, Paul Kagame.<\/p>\n

The signing was also witnessed by President Denis Sassou Nguesso of Congo Brazzaville.<\/p>\n

It is the second quadripartite summit hosted by Angolan President, Jo\u00e3o Louren\u00e7o aimed at strengthening regional security and cooperation. <\/p>\n

Kagame went to Angola after concluding a three-day state visit to Namibia.
\nAfter signing the pact, President Kagame thanked the leaders of Angola and DRC for their attitude and brotherly commitment \u2018to helping us find solutions between Uganda and Rwanda.\u2019 <\/p>\n

\u201cWe had the opportunity to broadly and extensively discuss many issues as we understood them, that underlined this problem, hence the MoU we have reached today which stipulates the path to follow as we continue to try to resolve this problem,\u201d he said. <\/p>\n

Kagame also thanked President Louren\u00e7o and Tshisekedi for the work and wise counsel they put into the process of bringing him together with President Museveni to resolve any problems that have been existing between Uganda and Rwanda. <\/p>\n

He highlighted that the signed MoU is meant to address existing problems clearly. <\/p>\n

\u201cI think it is not very difficult to address many of the problems we have had, it may take a bit of time to understand each other but I think we have come a long way. I see no problem in Rwanda working with President Louren\u00e7o, President Tshisekedi and more specifically with President Museveni to address what we have agreed to address,\u201d said Kagame. <\/p>\n

\u201cIf there are difficulties going on by trade not going on across the border and there are also problems when people can\u2019t cross the border when you have people who get arrested when they cross the border, that affects the movement of people, of goods and trade. We are going to address all these problems. By doing that indiscriminately, we will get where we want to be,\u201d he added. <\/p>\n

The meeting is a follow up of the July 12 summit also held in Angola\u2019s Luanda which brought together the heads of state of the four countries.<\/p>\n

The July meeting was devoted to regional security, cooperation and strengthening of ties among the four countries. It also reviewed the regional situation and reinforced coordination within the framework of multilateral concertation mechanisms.<\/p>\n

In the July summit\u2019s final communiqu\u00e9, the heads of state stressed the importance of a permanent, frank and open dialogue that should be strengthened both bilaterally between the states of the region and multilaterally, for the consolidation of peace and security as a fundamental premise for economic integration.<\/p>\n

It has been two years since Rwanda, Uganda relations worsened.<\/p>\n

Uganda has been deporting different Rwandans who accuse it of inhumane imprisonment and torture on false accusations by Uganda\u2019s Chieftaincy of Military Intelligence and rebel groups against the Government of Rwanda.<\/p>\n

Over 900 Rwandans have been reportedly detained in Uganda.<\/p>\n

This saw the Government of Rwanda advising Rwandans not to travel to Uganda for their security until the situation gets back to normal.<\/p>\n

Rwanda also accuses Uganda of conspiracy with rebel groups intending to destabilize state security.<\/p>\n

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President Paul Kagame and his counterpart of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni have signed a Memorandum of Understanding committing to regional cooperation and security promising to end political turbulence between both countries.<\/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":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-39886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-homenews","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\/39886","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=39886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39886"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=39886"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=39886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}