Uganda due to release 176 Rwandans from detention facilities

16 Mai 2020

Kigali, Rwanda, May 16  (Infosplusgabon) -  Rwanda Foreign Affairs minister, Dr Vincent Biruta, on Friday confirmed that Ugandan authorities will release 176 Rwandans who were "illegally detained from ungazetted facilities" by next week.

According Rwandan officials, the imminent release will  brings the total number of Rwandans released from detention in Uganda to 198, after 13 others were set free in February.

Rwandan President Paul Kagame and the presidents of Angola, DR Congo and Uganda held talks at Gatuna border crossing between Uganda and Rwanda where the fourth Quadripartite Heads of State Summit is taking place.

The talks build on a memorandum of understanding that was signed in Angola in August last year to end the dispute that prompted both countries to accuse the other of spying, political assassinations and meddling.

Tensions had also prompted Rwanda to close the border with its northern neighbour.

Rwanda also accuses Uganda of offering succour to two foreign-based Rwanda rebel groups - Rwanda National Congress (RNC) and Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).

The RNC is a rebel group led by some of Rwanda’s most prominent dissidents including South Africa-based renegade officer of the Rwandan army, Kayumba Nyamwasa.

The FDLR is a rebel group composed in part of former Rwandan soldiers and Hutu militias who fled into the Democratic Republic of Congo after the 1994 genocide.

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