CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC PRESIDENT TOUADERA LEAVES UGANDA AFTER A 3-DAY STATE VISIT

President Yoweri Museveni has bid farewell to President Faustin-Archange Touadera of the Central African Republic, who has been in Uganda for a 3-day State visit. At Entebbe International Airport, President Touadera was seen off at 12:50pm by the Vice president Maj. (Rtd) Jessica Alupo on behalf of president Museveni. Others included the deputy IGP James Ochaya, the commander of Airforce Maj. Gen. Charles Okidi, the minister of Defence Oboth Oboth and Assistant Commissioner General of Prisons Robert Munanura. Mr. Touadera was in the country during which he joined His Excellency president Museveni to mark Uganda’s 62nd Independence anniversary in Busia district about 200km east of the capital Kampala. During the visit, the two leaders held discussions focusing on bilateral cooperation, the promotion of peace and the exploitation of the abundant resources in the two countries. They also discussed disarmament, demobilization and reintegration processes for former members of the lord’s resistance army, a rebel group that operated in northern Uganda for about two decades but fled to the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo and the CAR, where they have been for several years. The rebel leaders have been indicted by the International Criminal Court, but their commander, Joseph Kony, has remained elusive.