{UAH} H.E Gen. Yoweri Museveni on the ground in South Sudan

February 20, 2014

President Yoweri Museveni has made an on spot field visit of a
military exercise by the UPDF in northern Uganda near the border with
South Sudan.

The President's visit comes at a time when the UPDF has ensured that
peace is maintained at the border between Uganda and South Sudan.
Following a lull in the conflict in South Sudan, brisk business has
returned between Kampala and Juba.

Violence broke out in the South Sudan capital, Juba in mid-December
last year and later spread to three of its ten states as forces loyal
to President Salva Kiir battled anti-government elements linked to the
country's former vice-president, Riek Machar. The power struggle
between the two erstwhile allies triggered weeks of bloodshed in the
world's youngest nation, killing thousands of people and displacing
nearly a million others. Trade between the two countries was also
severely been affected resulting in a loss of billions of shillings.

The President later made a brief working visit to Juba the capital of
South Sudan where he was received at the Juba International Airport by
the Foreign Minister of South Sudan Dr. Barnaba Marial Benjamin Bil.
He later met and held bilateral discussions with his counterpart South
Sudanese president Salva Kiir.

UPDF was deployed in South Sudan at the invitation of the government
of South Sudan to primarily protect key installations and to ease safe
evacuation of the Uganda nationals in South Sudan during the conflict.

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