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Uganda

Test wells to supply locals

Thousands of barrels of oil from test wells will be used by local companies that seem only too happy to get their hands on cheaper fuel.

Subscribers only Energy 05.07.2011

Kampala

Retired General Salim Saleh, Yoweri Museveni’s brother, has been present [...]

Subscribers only Politics 01.07.2011

Fight over land shaping up

Clashes over property between farmers and oil companies could well [...]

Subscribers only Energy 21.06.2011

Muluri Mukasa's roadmap

President Yoweri Museveni has given his new minister for security a set of written instructions. The Indian Ocean Newsletter lifts the veil on some of them.

Subscribers only Politics 17.06.2011

Tanker trucks to take a new route

Kampala wants the oil companies to import their fuel via Dar es Salaam rather than Mombasa. But this path is fraught with problems.

Subscribers only Business 17.06.2011

Local firm pips Shell at the post

A Ugandan company well connected in political circles has beaten out Shell for a deal to supply oil products to the Jinja tank farm. It will probably restore the facility, too.

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Irene Muloni

Contrary to what the government indicated a few weeks ago, president Yoweri Museveni didn’t name an oil minister in the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Lake Tanganyika Sensitive

With Soco still in talks with Congo-K’s government on exploring [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Government man in Bunyoro

For the first time, the western region of Bunyoro, which [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Kampala
Beatrice Atim Anywar

Beatrice Atim Anywar, a legislator from Kitgum in northern Uganda, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 07.06.2011

Salim Saleh is very single-minded

The former general metamorphosed into a businessman, Salim Saleh, the brother of President Yoweri Museveni, is implementing the policy of [...]

Subscribers only Business 03.06.2011

The Kotak brothers are having problems again

A year after discretely taking the helm of Total Mer Rouge (Total MR), the subsidiary of the major French oil [...]

Subscribers only 03.06.2011

IBI makes post-Fukushima pitch in China

Plans by Toronto-listed IBI Corp to mine uranium have gained fresh momentum. After the company sold its vermiculite project to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 31.05.2011

What’s to become of Tamoil plans?

Sanctions against Libyan interests in East Africa are beginning to affect oil companies operating in the region.