President Paul Kagame has challenged his counterpart president Yoweri Museveni of Uganda to move beyond discussions about conflict resolutions and act to stop conflicts and armed wars that have sprouted in several parts of the Great Lakes Region in which thousands of Africans have lost lives under the hands of Ugandan soldiers, the UPDF.

Since president Museveni captured power in 1986, his soldiers of the Uganda Peoples Defence Forces (UPDF) have fought bloody wars in Central African Republic, South Sudan, Libya, Liberia, Somalia, Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, Zimbabwe, Eastern Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda in which close to a million people have lost their lives and property worth billions of shillings lost.

President Kagame while speaking at the Annual Meetings of the African Development Bank in Kigali, also challenged all other African leaders to stop the aid they give to rebels that fight across the continent in a bid to capture power.

Kagame was speaking under the theme “Ending Conflict and Building Peace in Africa.” President Kagame was flanked by former presidents Thabo Mbeki of South Africa and Olusegun Obasanjo of Nigeria, as well as the President of AfDB, Dr Donald Kaberuka, and the Rwandan Minister for Foreign Affairs, Louise Mushikiwabo.

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