Sudan Airways to resume flights to Uganda

KHARTOUM, March 3 (AFP) — Sudan’s national carrier is to resume regular flights to Uganda later this week in a signing of improving ties between Khartoum and Kampala, the official SUNA agency reported Thursday.

The news agency said a Sudan Airways flight would fly to the Ugandan airport of Entebbe Saturday via Juba, the principal town in southern Sudan, with several senior government officials on board.

Passengers were expected to include the ministers of civil aviation and foreign trade as well as the chief of Sudan Airways, SUNA said.

The flight would be the first since Sudan and Uganda severed relations in 1994 amid accusations that each side was supporting rebels against the other.