Ugandan fish, milk banned

Rwanda has banned the importation of fish, milk and green bananas from Uganda, news agencies reported over the weekend. The Ugandan minister in charge of the presidency, Ruhakana Rugunda, told Radio Uganda on Saturday that the ban was a “very serious” matter which required urgent attention. It had “greatly affected business” in border areas, particularly in Kabale, Kisoro and Rukungiri, Rugunda said, adding that a ministerial-level delegation was scheduled to travel to Kigali to try to get the ban lifted. Rugunda said the reason for the ban remained unclear, the radio reported. Since the end of the war in 1994, fish imports from Uganda have provided an important source of protein especially to urban consumers, USAID’s Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) has said.