‘Museveni plotting change of Sudan government
By John Njoroge
Power threat. Sudan Vice President says Mr Museveni while attending an event last year in New York made his intentions clear when he said marginalised regions in Sudan should shift the centre of power. He also says the Ugandan President supported the secession of South Sudan.
Kampala
Sudan’s Vice President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha has accused President Museveni of plotting regime change in Sudan as part of a broader agenda to stifle Arab influence in Africa. The accusations come as the Khartoum administration struggles to calm protesters who have thronged the nation’s capital all week over high food prices and rising cost of living.
Mr Taha also accused former Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi and former Yemeni Vice President Ali Salim al-Beidh of contributing militarily to the secession of South Sudan. While attending a symposium in Egypt’s Capital Cairo on Monday, Mr Taha said Mr Museveni made his intentions clear sometime last year when he attended an event in New York. According to Mr Taha, Mr Museveni spoke of a movement by marginalised regions of Sudan to shift the centre of power in Sudan.
Uganda responds
“This is ridiculous,” Ministry of Foreign Affairs Permanent Secretary Ambassador James Mugume said yesterday. “I was in New York and the President never said such a thing.” Ambassador Mugume said President Museveni actually expressed support for the Sudanese government and called for the implementation of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed in 2005 including the January 2011 referendum and the peaceful resolution of other post-referendum issues. According to the Sudan Tribune, Mr Taha could have been referring to a United Nations meeting Mr Museveni attended on September 27, 2010.
It is alleged Mr Museveni reportedly said the problem in Sudan was a group of Arabs who were trying to run Sudan as an Arab country regardless of the fact that it was an Afro-Arab nation.
The accusations are likely to further strain the Khartoum -Kampala relationship which is already fragile due to Uganda’s support of South’s independence and accusations that Khartoum largely supported the Lord’s Resistance Army that ravaged northern Uganda for over 20 years.
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