Uganda

FERTILIZER PROJECT RESURFACES

The Indian company Gujarat State Fertilizers is interested in exploiting phosphates at Tororo, in the east, and in building a [...]

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL CRITICIZES

Amnesty International has expressed its deep concern on the situation of dozens of persons detained without being charged or put [...]

Ugandan defence minister Amana Mbalazi stated in Kampala on January [...]

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EURO-AMERICAN PALAVERS

A US delegation led by assistant secretary of state for African affairs George Moose and a European delegation (a troika composed of French, German and Greek diplomats) met in Brussels last month to discuss African affairs.

RENATO KIZITO SESANA

The publisher of New People (the Nairobi-based magazine for English-speaking Roman Catholics from Sudan to South Africa), Reverend Renato Kizito [...]

LOANS FROM EIB

The European Investment Bank, the European Union's long-term financing body, has granted Tanzania a conditional loan of ECU 23 million [...]

YOWERI MUSEVENI

Uganda's head of state confirmed on January first that the [...]

POWER PLAY FOR NILE

Ethiopia and Uganda are examining the idea of developing their hydro-electric potential, located essentially in the Nile river basin. This [...]

AND HIS CUP SPILLETH OVER

An International Monetary Fund data on Ugandan coffee production show that increased world coffee prices will bring Uganda nearly US$300 [...]

THIRD FRENCH FINANCIAL PROTOCOL

France's third financial protocol for Uganda, covering an amount of FFr.35 million, was initialled on December 6. The package will [...]

KAMPALA TO CLEAN OUT NORTHERN REBELS

According to diplomatic sources in Kampala, units of the government-supporting National Resistance Army (NRA) equipped with heavy arms are being [...]

ARMY MAY FACE A SOUTHERN ALERT

Head of state Yoweri Museveni has threatened to send in the army to tame a possible rebellion against the government [...]

The Bank of Uganda is to issue new 500 and [...]

LIVINGSTONE MPALANYI-NKOYOYO

The bishop of Mukono diocese, in the eastern part of [...]

PRIORITY TO PROCESSING MINE PRODUCTS

The processing of local non-metallic minerals to make phosphate-enriched fertilizer [...]

RUHAKANA RUGUNDA

Ugandan head of state Yoweri Museveni rejigged the government on November 18 and named Kintu Musoke as prime minister in [...]

DANIEL ARAB MOI

The Kenyan head of state announced on November 22 that [...]

SERIOUS SKIDDING IN EDF ACCOUNTS

The latest report from the European Union's court of accounts zeroes in on several serious cases of malfunctioning by its [...]

TRADE OFFENSIVE FROM PARIS

Paris wants to reduce its trade deficit with Uganda (FFr.29 million in 1993) in order to reach equilibrium in 1995 [...]