Uganda

THE NEXT LOT OF INTERNATIONAL LOANS

Apart from Mauritius (ION N° 596), several other Indian Ocean and East African countries are likely to see credits granted [...]

FOREIGN FIRMS ARE PESSIMISTIC

A number of British industrial companies working in Uganda's domestic market have begun delicate negotiations with the government in an [...]

ADB TO BACK THREE PROJECTS

The African Development Bank (ADB) group is poised to co-finance three electricity schemes in the East African countries of Tanzania, [...]

EDWARD CLAY

The UK's new high commissioner to Uganda is to take [...]

MORE ADB LOANS

The governing councils of African Development Bank (ADB) and African Development Fund (ADF) recently approved several financing packages. They include [...]

TITO OKELLO

Uganda's former head of state, who has been living in [...]

During a meeting with representatives of Nairobi businessmen, the Kampala [...]

THE WORLD BANK REPORTS IN

As each year, the World Bank annual report rounds up its activities and analyses economic performances in the divers regions [...]

THE WORLD BANK AND THE LADIES

A recent World Bank report (Uganda - Growing out of poverty) examines the impact of measures taken by the Ugandan [...]

GATT STUDENTS

Several civil servants from East and Southern Africa (Kenya, Mozambique, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda) are among the twenty-six representatives of LDCs [...]

BATTLE OF PORT CHARGES

A delegation of Ugandan businessmen visited Tanzania last week in an attempt to awaken top officials of Tanzania Railways Corporation [...]

NEW KING OF BUGANDA

Crown prince Ronald Mutebi, (son of Mutesa II who reigned from 1939 to 1966), already proclaimed Ssabataka (chief of all [...]

PLANS FOR EXTENSION OF KAKIRA SUGAR PLANTATION GET ADB FINANCING

The African Development Bank group (ADB) was expected to approve last month to finance a pre-investment study on expanding sugar [...]

DEREGULATING THE COTTON INDUSTRY

A World Bank mission is due to arrive in the Ugandan capital, Kampala in July to evaluate a project to [...]

BRITISH AID FOR 1993

During a recent address given at the East Africa Association (EAA) in London, British minister for Cooperation and Development, Lynda [...]

The EEC is to finance, with 27,8 million ecus (20 [...]

CHINESE FIRM FOR CIVIL WORKS ON OWEN FALLS II

SIETCO, a Chinese company already active in the country (it [...]

PETROFINA HALTS EXPLORATION

When Petrofina presented its provisional results for 1992 in February [...]

RESTORING THE MONARCHY

The idea of a "cultural" restoration of the monarchy in Uganda is rapidly gaining ground. Outside Buganda, where the crown [...]