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Monday 20 April 2020
Stay there until things normalize: When Museveni’s neo-liberal government fails to fly a single Ugandan back home: Over 1,000 foreigners evacuated from Uganda: Govt rejects Bobi Wine's offer to airlift Ugandans stuck in China
Sent back home. Europeans and North Americans get cleared at Entebbe
International Airport before they were evacuated to their respective
countries on Friday. PHOTO BY JOSEPH KIGGUNDU
More than
1,000 foreigners working in Uganda have been evacuated since government
closed Entebbe airport to international travels following the
coronavirus lockdown.
President Museveni closed
Entebbe International Airport and Uganda’s borders to both inbound and
outbound passenger traffic on March 22, a day after the country reported
its first case of Covid-19.
Since then, eight
evacuation flights have taken place, with the latest foreigners
evacuated last Friday. In the latest evacuation, 175 passengers were
taken aboard Ethiopian Airlines to Europe and America. They included 75
Swedish nationals, a number of other European citizens, Canadians and
Americans.
The Swedish ambassador to Uganda, Per
Lindgärde, said the decision to evacuate the nationals from Uganda was
taken by the country’s Foreign Affairs ministry at home following the
global outbreak.
“This is a decision the Foreign
Affairs minister has taken in Stockholm to call back the family members
and reduce the number of embassy staff from the countries of sub-Saharan
Africa, as well as some countries from Asia and South America as well,”
he said.
Mr Lindgärde said the evacuations are
temporary measures and those who have travelled back home will be
allowed to return as soon as the situation normalises.
Govt rejects Bobi Wine's offer to airlift Ugandans stuck in China