Uganda

DONORS OFFER $825 MILLION

At the World Bank Consultative Group meeting on Uganda in Paris on May 27 and 28, the donors pledged 825 [...]

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OBSTACLES TO PRIVATE INVESTMENT

The Ugandan authorities this week attended several meetings with donors and potential foreign investors. At the World Bank Consultative Group meeting in Paris on May 27 and 28, the Kampala government was expected, according to an official from the Ugandan [.

RESTRUCTURING THE FINANCE SECTOR

Apart from approval for a 52.6 million dollar-credit to improve Uganda's education system (that will also receive 25 million dollars [...]

TEN IDA PROJECTS IN THE PIPELINE

The International Development Association (IDA), is preparing ten credits for Uganda totalling 650 million dollars. A project in the cotton [...]

Uganda's public telecommunications company is to be privatized soon and [...]

BREAKDOWN IN PRIVATISATION

At the request of members of the National Resistance Council, a law setting the conditions of privatisation is being studied [...]

Japan is to approve a 50 million dollar credit to [...]

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES CONFERENCE

A conference on trade and investment opportunities in Uganda, to be held in London on May 25 (ION N°564) by [...]

The Centre Français du Commerce Extérieur (CFCE) and French commercial [...]

JAPANESE LEND AID FOR IMPROVEMENTS TO ROADS AND SCHOOLS

The Japanese government last week approved a grant of 793 million yen (6.8 million dollars) to Uganda for two projects. [...]

RONALD MUTEBI

Ronald Mutebi, son of the Kabaka (king) of Buganda, Edward Mutesa, is due to succeed his father next month. Born [...]

BUYING-BACK COMMERCIAL DEBTS

An agreement signed on February 26 has enabled Uganda to buy-back 153 million dollars of commercial debt, and to obtain [...]

SEEKING INVESTORS IN LONDON

East Africa Association (EAA) is holding a foreign investment promotion in Uganda conference in London on May 25 (for information [...]

JAN PRONK

The Dutch minister for Cooperation and Development, Jan Pronk is [...]

CHRISTOPHER GORE

The governor of Juba in southern Sudan, Christopher Gore has been working alongside Juma Oris, former minister under General Idi [...]

PRESIDENT FEELS SUDANESE HEAT

President Yoweri Museveni of Uganda was to make a visit to the Sudanese capital, Khartoum on February 17, to talk [...]

SOCIAL SERVICES LOAN

Approval is in the pipeline from the African Development Fund (ADF), part of the African Development Bank (ADB) for a [...]

YOWERI MUSEVENI

Uganda's president said on February 9 that he supports the [...]

FINANCE SECTOR REFORMS

The financial sector reform in Uganda is going to require a package that will be made up largely by the [...]