President Yoweri Museveni has bid farewell to President Faustin-Archange Touadéra of the Central African Republic, who has been in Uganda for a 3-day State visit.
At Entebbe International Airport, president Touadéra 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. Touadéra also 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.
The leaders also discussed the 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.
While seeing off the president, VP Alupo described Faustin-Archange Touadéra’s three-day official visit as a true spirit of Pan-Africanism.
