Daily Monitor
Tuesday March 16 2021
Banyarwanda, a community of Rwandan origin living in Uganda, address a press conference in Kampala yesterday.PHOTO/ COURTESY OF FRANK GASUMBA
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They say they have been denied certain services and acquiring documents such as passports and Identity cards.
The Banyarwanda are named as number 24 under the tribes listed in the Uganda Constitution. They say the Ugandan Banyarwanda are confused with the neighbouring Rwandans.
They seek to be renamed Abavandimwe, which they say means brethren.
“By the mere fact that the name of our tribe links us to the neighbouring country, many people are mistaken to think we are foreigners. However, there are those, who deliberately use this as a weapon of segregation,” Mr Lawrence Muganga, who read out the statement on behalf of other Ugandan Banyarwanda, told journalists in Kampala yesterday.