Last week President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni directed the Director General of External Security Organization, Amb.Joseph Ocwet, to urgently work with the Embassy of Uganda in Khartoum, Sudan, to rescue all Ugandans who had been trapped amid the ongoing civil war in the Sudan.
Amb.Ocwet, immediately contacted the Embassy of Uganda in Khartoum, led by the Head of Mission, Amb. Dr. Rashid Yahya Ssemuddu, to urgently mobilize all Ugandans living in Sudan and coordinate the evacuation processes.
Gen.Muhoozi Kainerugaba, the Special Presidential Advisor on Special Operations, while accompanied by the Deputy Ambassador and Head of Chancery Uganda Embassy Khartoum, Sudan, Amb. Dickson Ogwang, the Chairperson Parliamentary Community on Foreign Affairs, MP Norah Birigwa, and the Director General External Security Organization (ESO), Ambassador Joseph Ocwet, received the first batch of Ugandans evacuated from Sudan at Entebbe Airport VVIP Terminal on Thursday morning, April 27, 2023.
“We thank the Almighty God for bringing you back, and we are very delighted to see you all. The government is putting into place plans to bring back home other people that are still in Sudan,” Gen. Muhoozi said.
In the clip below, Gen Muhoozi accompanied by Amb.Dickson Ogwang Okul,the Deputy Ambassador of Uganda to Sudan and Head of Chancery, Amb.Joseph Ocwet, the Director General of External Security Organisation among others while welcoming the evacuees at Entebbe International Airport on Thursday wee morning
The evacuees, in the company of Joseph Ocwet, the Director General of the External Security Organization (ESO), were Diplomats, Students, Business people and Expatriates who touched down at 02:30 AM at Entebbe International Airport VVIP Terminal from Bahir Dar Airport in Northern Ethiopia.
Amb. Dr. Yahya Ssemuddu, his Deputy/ Head of Chancery, Dickson Ogwang and Hon. Norah Birigwa later held a press conference and thanked President Museveni and Uganda Government for the efforts to ensure that Ugandans were effectively evacuated from danger of wars in the Sudan.
Amb.Ogwang also stated that the total number they had was 300 Ugandans, including staff at the Uganda Embassy Khartoum, 21 pilgrims who were in transit going to Mecca, 120 students at Africa International University, another 120 Diaspora working in Khartoum, and a few who were on a short visit.
Amb. Ogwang thanked the efforts of their Accounting Officer, David Wamono for creatively making funds available to facilitate ground movement and welfare of the evacuatees, including ground movement from Khartoum to Ethiopia.
According to Amb. Dickson Ogwang Okul, the evacuation was led by the Head of Mission/ Ugandan Ambassador to Sudan, H. E. Dr. Rashid Yahya Ssemuddu, and Brig. General Freddie Karara, with full facilitation and command of H. E. The President of the Republic of Uganda, Gen. Yuweri Kaguta Museveni, with the coordination of the Director General of ESO and Gen. Muhoozi.
At least 512 people have been killed and 4,193 wounded as the conflict entered a 13th day, according to health ministry figures, although the real numbers are likely to be much higher.
There have been multiple truce efforts since fighting broke out on April 15 between Sudan’s regular army, led by General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan, and the RSF, commanded by his deputy-turned-rival, Mohamed “Hemedti” Hamdan Daglo.
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