After three years, a vital border between Rwanda and Uganda reopened on Monday, but there has been little movement of people or commodities.
About ten people who have crossed into Uganda, split into two groups. Ugandans have also crossed the border into Rwanda.
There have yet to be any freight trucks or passenger buses crossing the border.
Lives and livelihoods have been impacted by the border closure, which has lasted nearly three years.
Each day, at least 100 cargo trucks would pass through customs on both sides of the border before the blockade. However, passenger buses and other vehicles moving between the two nations were temporarily halted in 2019.
Rwanda has accused Uganda of detaining dozens of its people in security detention centers, alleging that they were picked up across the country.
Ugandan officials, on the other hand, have levelled identical charges against the Rwandan military. More than a dozen persons were allegedly arrested in the border area of Butanda, in Kabale district, according to a local official, and are still being held in Rwanda.
President Yoweri Museveni’s son, a major in the Ugandan army, was deployed to Rwanda last week, allegedly with a message for Rwandan President Paul Kagame.
Several inter-governmental talks have been organized since 2019 under the auspices of Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo, to improve relations between Rwanda and Uganda.