{"id":9059,"date":"2019-04-04T16:15:42","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T13:15:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=9059"},"modified":"2019-04-04T16:15:47","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T13:15:47","slug":"museveni-meets-south-sudan-president-salva-kiir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/04\/museveni-meets-south-sudan-president-salva-kiir\/","title":{"rendered":"Museveni meets South Sudan President Salva Kiir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Yoweri Museveni has today (Thursday) received and held\na meeting at State House Entebbe with his South Sudan counterpart, Mr. Salva\nKiir.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Kiir, who was accompanied by several high-ranking, officials\nof his government, was in Uganda for a one-day working visit on the invitation\nof President Museveni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In a bilateral meeting, President Kiir briefed his host on the\nprogress of implementation of the Peace Agreement, indicating that it was\nlargely on course with the exception of a few issues that needed to be\nresolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One such issue, he observed, was the disagreement over some\nstate and district boundaries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Responding, President Museveni advised that the leaders should\nnot be consumed by fights over boundaries; instead they should channel their\nefforts towards improving their people&#8217;s welfare and incomes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt does not matter what state or district you are in. It won&#8217;t\nchange much if you are poor. What is important is to work towards eradicating\npoverty and improving your income,&#8221; said President Museveni.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Museveni-recieves-Salva-Kiir-at-State-House-Entebbe-03-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9061\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Museveni-recieves-Salva-Kiir-at-State-House-Entebbe-03-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Museveni-recieves-Salva-Kiir-at-State-House-Entebbe-03-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Museveni-recieves-Salva-Kiir-at-State-House-Entebbe-03-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Museveni-recieves-Salva-Kiir-at-State-House-Entebbe-03-630x420.jpg 630w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Museveni-recieves-Salva-Kiir-at-State-House-Entebbe-03-640x427.jpg 640w, https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Museveni-recieves-Salva-Kiir-at-State-House-Entebbe-03-681x454.jpg 681w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption>Museveni receives Salva Kiir at State House Entebbe<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He, however, added that if they must, it would be best to follow\nthe colonial boundaries for both internal and inter-state demarcations in order\nto ensure security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In August 2018, South Sudan warring parties signed an Agreement in Khartoum, Sudan to end four years of hostility and fighting. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Kiir signed on behalf of SPLM while Riek Machar signed on behalf of the rebelling groups.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Presidents Museveni and Omar al-Bashir of Sudan were the\nagreement&#8217;s guarantors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Kiir was accompanied, among others, by the Minister of the Office of the President, Mayik Ayii Deng. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Uganda\u2019s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hon. Sam Kutesa, Presidency Minister Esther Mbayo, were also present. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Yoweri Museveni has today (Thursday) received and held a meeting at State House Entebbe with his South Sudan counterpart, Mr. Salva Kiir. Mr. Kiir, who was accompanied by several high-ranking, officials of his government, was in Uganda for a one-day working visit on the invitation of President Museveni. In a bilateral meeting, President Kiir [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":9060,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-9059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9059"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9062,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9059\/revisions\/9062"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9060"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}