Uganda’s Head of State, Yoweri Museveni is reportedly visiting Egypt.
His official trip comes Amid the ongoing river-based controversy with South Sudan, Uganda’s Northern neighbor.
President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni of Uganda is currently visiting Cairo, in Egypt in what is being described as a means to promote the proposed dredging of waterways linked to the River Nile.
This apparently is a project that has previously sparked protests in the neighboring South Sudan.
In 2022, South Sudanese civil society groups and environmental activists strongly opposed dredging plans, warning of ecological risks and potential political interference.
Some regional analysts allege that Egypt provided substantial financial incentives to Uganda in support of the project.
According to these claims, the funds may have been used to orchestrate political instability in South Sudan, paving the way for the deployment of foreign forces to secure dredging operations.
The ultimate aim, critics suggest, is to allow increased water flow toward a newly constructed river system in Egypt.
Egypt is also accused by certain observers of contributing to instability in Khartoum, allegedly acting as both a partner and supplier to the two rival forces currently battling for control of Sudan.
Cairo has not publicly commented on these allegations, and no official evidence has been presented to substantiate them.
The developments come at a time of heightened tension in the Nile Basin, where water politics, security concerns, and regional rivalries remain deeply intertwined.