Museveni vows more efforts to achieve peace in Sudan
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March 25, 2017 (KHARTOUM) - Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni
Saturday has expressed keenness to exert more effort to achieve peace
in Sudan, said Sudan’s State Foreign Minister.
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Omar al-Bashir (R) welcomes Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni at
Khartoum Airport for talks during an official visit to Sudan September
15, 2015. (Photo Reuters/Mohamed Nureldin Abdallah)
On Saturday, Sudan’s Vice-President Hassabo Mohamed Abdel-Rahman has
met with Museveni in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi on the sidelines of
the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) special summit
on Somali refugees.
In press statements, Saturday, Sudan’s State Foreign Minister, Kamal
al-Din Ismail, said Abdel-Rahman has conveyed a message from President
Omer al-Bashir to Museveni regarding Uganda’s peace efforts in Sudan.
According to Ismail, Abdel-Rahman has thanked Museveni for his efforts
to achieve peace in Sudan, praising his role in the release of
government prisoners.
Earlier this month, the rebel Sudan People’s Liberation Movement/North
(SPLM-N) released 125 Sudanese Prisoners of War (POWs). The release
operation, nicknamed “Goodwill”, was mediated by Museveni.
Ismail pointed that Abdel-Rahman also discussed with Museveni various
regional issues including the situation in South Sudan and Somalia.
Following ten years of strained relations, Museveni visited Khartoum
in September 2015 where he and al-Bashir agreed to end tensions
between the two countries over the issue of rebel groups.
The Year 2016, witnessed a steady rapprochement between the two
countries, accelerated, by the South Sudanese crisis and their joint
efforts to end the three crisis in the neighbouring nation.
The visit of President Museveni to Khartoum in October 2016 to take
part in the closing conference of the government-led national dialogue
is seen as a turning point in the relationship between the two
countries.
In September 2016, the Ugandan government facilitated informal talks
between the Sudanese government and armed groups in Darfur and Sudan’s
Blue Nile and South Kordofan areas, in a bid to support the African
Union High Implementation Panel (AUHIP) efforts to bring peace in the
east African country.
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