Kampala and Khartoum are on a mission to mend previously strained relations if the “intimacy” between President Omar Bashir and Yoweri Museveni is to go by.
President Bashir who arrived in Uganda on Monday concluded his two day official visit on the invitation of President Museveni.
The visiting Sudan leader who was hosted at State House Entebbe discussed the growing bilateral trade between Sudan and Uganda, the Nile Basin Initiatives among other cross-country relationship building.
Before he flew out, Bashir was given a tour of Museveni’s expansive Kisozi Farm in Luwero where the seemingly happy and jolly Museveni personally chauffered and gave Bashir a guided tour of his Ankole-Long-Horned Cattle Farm.
The visibly excited Bashir was seen heartily smiling as a casually dressed Museveni took to the wheel of the Presidential Land Cruiser as Bashir took to the passenger seat- a great sight seeing two hardened army leaders and Presidents driving freely in the countryside.
Bashir who is wanted by International Criminal Court on allegations of gross human rights abuses perpetrated by his army in Southern Sudan had previously not been on good terms with Uganda over their alleged support of John Garang’s Sudanese People’s Liberation Movement that eventually broke away attaining Independence as the world’s newest Nation.
