Uganda

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PARIS SEES RED

With the escalation of civil conflict in Rwanda, Uganda's head of state Yoweri Museveni has become, once again, France's Public Enemy Number One in central Africa. Paris has never forgiven him his well-publicized hatred for France's two great pals in [.

GAMBLERS MUST WAIT

Uganda has not chosen the foreign company which is to administer the country's planned national lottery. Uganda Revenue Authority, the [...]

The World Bank consultative group on Uganda which was due [...]

ANTI-AIDS FIGHT GETS $50 MILLION

The World Bank subsidiary International Development Association (IDA) approved a loan of US$50 million on April 12 to fight sexually-transmittted [...]

The annual trade fair which Uganda Manufacturers Association has organized [...]

SLOW RELEASE OF CREDITS

Outstanding loans of the International Development Association (IDA, a subsidiary of the World Bank), authorized for Uganda involve more than [...]

SHORT-TERM CAPACITY SQUEEZE

Projections by the Uganda Electricity Board indicate that electricity demand in 1995 could necessitate an available capacity of nearly 180 [...]

SHELL TO UPGRADE NETWORK

Shell Uganda has undertaken a $10 million, five year programme [...]

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MUSEVENI DOES BETTER THAN NRM

Uganda's elections of March 28 for the constituent assembly may have been an undoubted success for the head of state, Yoweri Museveni, but they are unlikely to allow his party National Resistance Movement (NRM) to become an autonomous political force.

FUNDS FOR THE ROAD NETWORK

The Ugandan government and fund donors recently worked out a programme over four years (1994 to 1998) for maintenance work [...]

SUCCESS FOR NRM

According to first results of the March 28 ballot to designate 214 of the 288 members of Uganda's constituent assembly [...]

BIG JACKSON OCANA

The former head of chancery (and first secretary) in Uganda's [...]

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THE SOUTH AFRICAN AND CHINESE OUTSIDERS

Times are going to be very hard. With the arrival in East Africa of South African outsiders, of Chinese firms with price dumping in public works sectors, of Japanese companies' renewed aggressiveness in several sectors (telecommunications, electricity distribution, road construction), [.

PETER OTAI

The former defence minister of ex-president Milton Obote has created an anti-government guerrilla movement, the Uganda Popular Freedom Movement, at [...]

ODED BEN AMI

The spokesman of Israel's defence ministry indicated on March 21 [...]

ENTEBBE GETS SABENA'S BETS

The chairman of Belgian's national airline SABENA, Pierre Godfroid, took advantage of a recent visit to Kampala to hold discussions [...]

SCHNEIDER BEEFS UP PROFILE

Schneider has just inaugurated a new commercial representation office in the region, this time at Kitwe in northern Zambia, it [...]

EIB IN PIPELINE PROJECT

Negotiations are underway on a plan calling for the European Investment Bank to finance a technical and economic feasibility study [...]

FINANCE HANGING FIRE

Although negotiations between the Ugandan government and the International Development Association have been completed, disbursement of an IDA loan of [...]