{"id":45450,"date":"2022-03-15T08:20:40","date_gmt":"2022-03-15T08:20:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/kagame-receives-lt-gen-muhoozi-kainerugaba\/"},"modified":"2022-03-16T08:43:27","modified_gmt":"2022-03-16T08:43:27","slug":"kagame-receives-lt-gen-muhoozi-kainerugaba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/kagame-receives-lt-gen-muhoozi-kainerugaba\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagame receives Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lt Gen Muhoozi arrived in Rwanda on Monday 14th March 2022. As he arrived in Rwanda, he was received by Charg\u00e9 d\u2019Affaires at Uganda\u2019s Embassy in Kigali, Anne Katusiime ; the Commandant of Republican Guard, Brigadier General Willy Rwagasana and the Spokesperson of Rwanda Defence Force (RDF), Col Ronald Rwivanga. <\/p>\n<p>He is coming to Rwanda for the second time after the recent visit aimed at creating new avenues for normalized ties between Rwanda and Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>Gatuna border had been closed in 2019 following Rwanda\u2019s concerns over Uganda\u2019s support to dissidents intending to threaten its security and series of arrests of Rwandans incarcerated illegally in the country.<\/p>\n<p>At the time, Rwanda advised citizens not to travel to Uganda for their security following testimonies of over 1000 Rwandans tortured and deported from Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>The decision has had negative impact to citizens\u2019 of both neighboring countries.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from worsened relations, the value of trade between both countries dropped from US$250 million in 2018 to US$10 million.<\/p>\n<p>Talks between Lt Gen Muhoozi and President Kagame on 22nd January 2022 are believed to have bore fruits leading to a step further towards restoring relations to normal.<\/p>\n<p>Following the visit to Rwanda of Lt Gen Muhoozi, on 22nd January 2022, the Government of Rwanda announced that Gatuna border connecting the country to Uganda would reopen effective from 31st January 2022 following the country\u2019s willingness to address issues raised by Rwanda.<\/p>\n<p>The move was followed by the reopening of all land borders on 7th March 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Passengers crossing to Uganda are required to present different travel documents including Passport and Laissez \u2013 Passer.<\/p>\n<p>The country has also requested passengers living far from the borders to present negative COVID-19 PCR Test Results. However, residents nearby the borders with Uganda are allowed to present Rapid Test.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"spip-document spip-document-41389 aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/jpg\/arton165965.jpg\" alt=\"President Paul Kagame has received Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba at Village Urugwiro.   \" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>{President Paul Kagame has received Lt Gen Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the first born son of Uganda\u2019s President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni at Village Urugwiro. Lt Gen Muhoozi who serves as Senior Presidential Advisor on Special Operations and Commander of Land Forces of the Uganda People\u2019s Defence Forces (UPDF) has come to Rwanda for the second time as part of efforts to mend ties between the two neighboring countries.} <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":62,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[72,75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-45450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-featured-news-home","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\/45450","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\/62"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45450"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45450\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45450"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=45450"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=45450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}