Rwanda accuses Uganda of supporting rebels

Kagame’s government has accused neighbouring Uganda of supporting militias opposed to Rwanda

Relations between the two countries soured a week ago after Rwanda blocked Ugandan load trucks from entering its domain at the busiest intersection point, Katuna, and banned its nationals from intersection into Uganda.

Authorities in Kigali state they have guided trucks to another outskirt point 100 km (60 miles) away, yet several them are as yet stuck at the wilderness.

Rwandan Foreign Minister Richard Sezibera blamed Uganda for offering help to two remote based Rwanda rebel fighter groups – Rwanda National Congress (RNC) and Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR).

“RNC and FDLR work from Uganda with help of certain specialists there. This is another genuine case and we have raised it with them,” he told a news meeting in Kigali.

The RNC is a revolutionary gathering driven by a portion of Rwanda’s most noticeable nonconformists including South Africa-based Kayumba Nyamwasa. Its authors state it is an ideological group.

The FDLR is a revolutionary made to some degree out of previous Rwandan warriors and Hutu state armies who fled into Democratic Republic of Congo in the wake of slaughtering around 800,000 Tutsis and moderate Hutus amid Rwanda’s 1994 dreadful genocide.

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