Uganda

PARIS RESCHEDULES DEBT

In accordance with the Paris Club decision of June 1992, an agreement was signed between France and Uganda last month [...]

GREY MEINZEL

The Eastern Africa regional representative of the French engineering firm, [...]

While the government in Kampala is negotiating debt rescheduling agreements [...]

BARCLAYS BANK HAS CHANGE OF HEART

Barclays Bank has reportedly dropped its projects to sell its Ugandan assets, and has, instead, begun negotiations with the Kampala [...]

JAPANESE AID TO REFUGEES

The Japanese ministry of Foreign Affairs announced last week that it will grant 9.8 million $ to pay for various [...]

REVELATIONS OF EEC-AID ABUSE

in a report, issued in November, the European Community's Court of Accounts reveals abuse of European aid in Uganda. For [...]

INTERNATIONAL AID FOR 1993

According to a study carried out last month by the French economic mission in the Ugandan capital, Kampala and distributed [...]

AMAMA MBABAZI

The director general of the Ugandan External Security Organisation (ESO) [...]

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RELATIONS WITH FRANCE FIRM UP

The Ugandan government would like to become the first English-speaking African country to obtain credits from the French ministry of Cooperation, whose current policy is to lend to French-speaking and Portuguese-speaking countries only. Such an innovative move would constitute a [.

OPENINGS IN TOURISM

The Uganda Investment Authority (UIA), has drawn up a list of all the investment opportunities in the country. In the [...]

INDUSTRY, MINING AND ROAD FUNDS FROM WORLD BANK

The International Development Association (IDA) a World Bank affiliate, is proposing to lend Uganda 40 million dollars to the ministry [...]

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NEW FRONT LINE

Aid from the Sudanese government to the extension of Islamic fundamentalism in Eastern Africa is becoming an increasingly greater source of concern to different circles. Uganda, Kenya and Tanzania, moving slowly down the road to multi-party political systems and economic [.

The African Development Bank (ADB), recently approved several financing projects, [...]

According to World Bank Watch newsletter, the Bank is considering [...]

HOSTING IRANIAN TRADE FAIRS

The Iranian trade representative in Kenya, Ali Daryanian announced that a ten-day Iranian trade fair is to be held in [...]

ATTEMPT TO REGIMENT NGOS

The Ugandan government is reportedly considering a move to supervise the activity of non-governmental organisations (NGOs) on its territory. A [...]

SWEDISH AID 1993-1994

The Swedish International Development Authority (SIDA) intends to raise its overall bilateral aid by five percent in the coming year, [...]

KERUBINO KWANYIN BOL

Formerly the second-in-command of the Sudan People's Liberation Army, until he was arrested by John Garang in 1987, Kerubino Kwanyin [...]

JAPANESE COOPERATION COOLS DOWN

Pledges and packages from the Overseas Economic Cooperation Fund of Japan (OECF), one of the two Japanese aid and cooperation [...]