Rwanda’s President Paul Kagame arrived in Uganda , yesterday, in what is believed to be his first visit to the country in four years as the relationship between the two East African nations improves following long-brewing tensions.
Reports from Rwandan Broadcasting Agency said on Sunday that Kagame had arrived in Kampala to meet his Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni and attend the 48th birthday party of Museveni’s powerful son, Muhoozi Kainerugaba, who has been instrumental in the reconciliation between the two neighbours.
The Ugandan high commission in Kigali said Kagame was on “a private visit”, adding that Kainerugaba and security minister Jim Muhwezi were among the senior government officials who received the Rwandan leader.
Kainerugaba, who heads Uganda’s land forces and serves as a special presidential adviser, has previously referred to Kagame as “my uncle” on Twitter, claimin that those who fight him are fighting his family, sometime in January.
