Claims Uganda has expelled Sudanese rebel leaders
February 9, 2015 (KHARTOUM) – Uganda has expelled Sudanese rebel leaders from its territory, president Yoweri Museveni told a Sudanese delegation headed by the vice-president Hasabo Abdel-Rahman on Monday.
The lengthy meeting which, was held at Museveni’s residence outside the capital Kampala, thoroughly discussed the security file, said the Sudanese state minister at the foreign ministry, Obeid-Allah Mohamed Obeid-Allah.
Kampala and Khartoum trade accusations of support to the rebel groups.
Ugandan officials kept charging Sudan of supporting the Lord Resistance Army and its leader Joseph Kony even after the independence of South Sudan. While, Khartoum accuses Museveni’s government of supporting rebel groups from Darfur, Blue Nile and South Kordofan.
Speaking to Ashrooq TV from Kampala, Obeid said the visit comes in response to an invitation extended by the president Museveni to his Sudanese counterpart Omer al-Bashir to discuss bilateral relations.
He pointed that the discussions were frank, open and constructive and covered all the outstanding issues particularly the security matters and the future of cooperation between the two countries.
Last week, the speaker of the National Assembly Fatih Izz al-Din spoke about intensive moves to normalise relations with Uganda and disclosed that he had a meeting with the Uganda vice-president aiming to conduct a meaningful dialogue between the two countries to ease their tense relations.
Izz al-Din said he met with the Ugandan vice-president Edward Ssekandi in Kampala where he was to participate in the celebrations of the Sudan independence organised by the Sudanese embassy there.
The two countries held several meetings in the past to normalise relations.
Besides, accusations of support to Sudanese rebel groups, Khartoum follows closely the presence of Ugandan troops in the South Sudan where an inter-South Sudanese conflict erupted since more than one-year.
(ST)