Uganda

PACIFIC VANGOLD STARTS DRILLING

Following an aerial geo-physical survey that turned up five major anomalies, the Canadian company Pacific Vangold began exploration drilling for [...]

MASTER PLAN FOR AGRICULTURE

A team of consultants from the Japan Agricultural Land Development Agency headed by Yushubiro Suzuki and financed by Japanese International [...]

JAMES ADAMS

The new director of Country Department II at the World Bank covering Eastern Africa (Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Somalia, Sudan, [...]

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AT LOGGERHEADS WITH KHARTOUM

Last week's massacre near Gulu, in northern Uganda, of more than a hundred civilians, including wives of Ugandan army soldiers, by members of the Khartoum-backed rebel movement Lord's Resistance Army headed by Joseph Kony certainly weighed heavily in Kampala's decision [.

Colonel Ronald Kawuma, who deserted from the Ugandan army in [...]

MORE DROSS THAN GOLD

Foreign investors in Uganda have begun to implement only 20 percent of the US$1.63 billion of projects licenced by the [...]

MUSEVENI PLAYS IT CAREFULLY

Although general Mugisha Muntu remains titular commander in chief of Uganda's National Resistance Army, general Salim Saleh, a half-brother of [...]

FRED MPISO, HERBERT ITONGWA

A former member of the now defunct Federal Democratic Movement and today leader of a group of anti-government rebels based [...]

KASSIM MWAWADO

The press attache of Tanzania's foreign ministry said on April [...]

UGWEC READY TO DRILL, SEEKS PARTNER

The Uganda General Works and Engineering Company (UGWEC) is planning [...]

THE TRIPOLI AGREEMENT

A Sudanese delegation headed by vice president Al Zubeyr Mohamed Saleh and a Ugandan delegation led by first deputy prime [...]

COFFEE'S ON THE BOIL

Furious Ugandan coffee producers who have seen the government slap a 32 percent tax on their exports since October are [...]

PATRICK RAIMBAULT

A country vet in France for ten years who was several months on mission in Mali for the NGO Vétérinaires [...]

J. S. MAYANJA NKANGI

Uganda's finance minister was expected to lead the Uganda Investment [...]

Uganda Manufacturers Association is readying a third international trade show [...]

The Uganda Investment Authority is planning to send a team [...]

BELGIAN COOPERATION IN 1995

Uganda's minister of state without portfolio (assigned to liaison with the prime minister) Betty Bigombe and Belgium's secretary of state [...]

PRETORIA'S AIRWAY TARGETS

The inauguration now planned for June 1995 of two international air routes (Johannesburg-Entebbe-London and Johannesburg-Dar es Salaam-Dubai) by the newly [...]

DANIEL ARAP MOI

The Kenyan head of state this week accused Uganda of [...]