Uganda summoned Rwanda’s ambassador to Kampala on Friday to protest against the border closure. “Specific cases raised on alleged arbitrary arrests or detentions shall be handled through normal diplomatic channels,” he wrote on Twitter. Rwanda depends for much of its imports on a trade route through Uganda to Kenya’s Indian Ocean seaport of Mombasa. Nicholas Sengoba, a Uganda political analyst, told Reuters the tensions were “a growing cancer” in relations between the two countries. “But I don’t see the situation escalating to an outbreak of war simply because the economic and other stakes are high,” he said.

Source: Standard Digital March 05, 2019 11:15 UTC