Warm Uganda, Rwanda relations welcome
Jul 29, 2011
Today President Yoweri Museveni begins a four-day state visit to Rwanda.
Today President Yoweri Museveni begins a four-day state visit to Rwanda.
Apart from meeting his host President Paul Kagame, Museveni will tour Rwandan industries, visit with the 4000-strong Ugandan community there and participate in the general cleaning of Rwandan capital Kigali.
On one noteworthy level this is probably the longest state visit to any of our neighbours by Museveni.
This is a powerful statement, potent in its symbolism, coming almost 10 years since the two countries relationship hit a rough patch with skirmishes between their respective armies in the Congo in the early part of this Century.
The people of our respective nations have, however, continued to have the most cordial relations with a jump in trade and commerce across our borders, pointing Uganda to quickly overhaul all, but Kenya as our greatest regional trade partner.
And that is where the focus of the two leaderships should remain, on uplifting the welfare of their respective peoples through collaboration.
The two leaders are well versed in ways of mass mobilisation and know better than anyone that without grassroot support their planned projects and even their tenancy will be in jeopardy.
Ideally the leaderships of the countries should have mutually shared feeling of warmth and brotherhood towards each other, but as citizens we would not care less.
All we want, in fact is to demand, that an enabling environment is created and maintained so that we can at the bare minimum survive in harmony and at best thrive and prosper.
Hopefully this visit is one of many by the leaders of either country and we wait in anticipation of the benefits that will ensue from such interaction
Apart from meeting his host President Paul Kagame, Museveni will tour Rwandan industries, visit with the 4000-strong Ugandan community there and participate in the general cleaning of Rwandan capital Kigali.
On one noteworthy level this is probably the longest state visit to any of our neighbours by Museveni.
This is a powerful statement, potent in its symbolism, coming almost 10 years since the two countries relationship hit a rough patch with skirmishes between their respective armies in the Congo in the early part of this Century.
The people of our respective nations have, however, continued to have the most cordial relations with a jump in trade and commerce across our borders, pointing Uganda to quickly overhaul all, but Kenya as our greatest regional trade partner.
And that is where the focus of the two leaderships should remain, on uplifting the welfare of their respective peoples through collaboration.
The two leaders are well versed in ways of mass mobilisation and know better than anyone that without grassroot support their planned projects and even their tenancy will be in jeopardy.
Ideally the leaderships of the countries should have mutually shared feeling of warmth and brotherhood towards each other, but as citizens we would not care less.
All we want, in fact is to demand, that an enabling environment is created and maintained so that we can at the bare minimum survive in harmony and at best thrive and prosper.
Hopefully this visit is one of many by the leaders of either country and we wait in anticipation of the benefits that will ensue from such interaction