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Uganda

New Oil Legislation

The Ugandan government wants to update its oil legislation. The last law was drafted in 2000 and lacks clarity, according [...]

Subscribers only Energy 13.03.2007

IFC is to fund the Safal group

The International Finance Corp (IFC, part of the World Bank group) is to decide at the end of March on [...]

Subscribers only 07.03.2007

American advisors being deployed

According to a Ugandan military source, around 150 American members of the Special Forces reporting to the Combined Task Force [...]

Subscribers only Politics 02.03.2007

Museveni gives way

President Museveni has accepted the conditions posed by Stephen Isitu to take up the head of the National Forestry Authority to stay in the good books of the donors.

Free access Politics 16.02.2007

Servicemen in key posts

The Ugandan government is not a military junta. However, half a dozen generals and officers who are close allies of the Head of State are in key positions.

Subscribers only Politics 16.02.2007

Kampala ready to fight the LRA

The Ugandan authorities are preparing for a possible resumption of [...]

Subscribers only 02.02.2007

New Funding Arrangement

The World Bank will table a new funding program for the Bujagali dam in Uganda in March. In doing so, [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.01.2007

Consultants on Bujagali

The British consultancy Power Planning Associates last week presented a [...]

Subscribers only Energy 30.01.2007

Rio Tinto Steps In Quietly

Efforts by the Uganda Investment Authority have finally paid off. Three years after Rio Tinto officials turned up to look [...]

Subscribers only Mining 23.01.2007

Museveni doesn't trust his MPs

President Yoweri Museveni has sent military intelligence agents to spy on certain Members of Parliament of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) who are considered as dissident.

Subscribers only Politics 19.01.2007

Mahmoud Hashish

The CEO of MTC-Vodafone in Barhein has just been appointed deputy chairman of Celtel International in charge of Kenya, Uganda, [...]

Subscribers only 19.01.2007

New Power Plant

Israeli investors want to build a 100 MW Independent Power Plant (IPP).

Subscribers only Energy 16.01.2007

Discovery on Heritage’s Block

The Canadian junior Heritage has struck oil on block 3A [...]

Subscribers only Energy 16.01.2007

Spotlight
Bad start to the new year for Gapco

One of the partners in the Rail India Technical & Economic Services (Rites) consortium which is to operate the Tanzania Railway Corp (TRC) from March 2007, the private concern Gulf Africa Petroleum Corp (Gapco) is in trouble with its banks [.

Subscribers only Politics 05.01.2007

Libyan Arab Investments Co.

The executives of this small Libyan company who attended a [...]

Subscribers only Business 05.01.2007

EIB to Finance Bujagali

In addition to the World Bank, the European Investment Bank (EIB) has agreed to take part in funding the Bujagali dam.

Subscribers only Energy 02.01.2007

Brian Hester

IBI Corp., a vermiculite miner in Uganda which has just begun prospecting for uranium in the country, is fleshing out [...]

Subscribers only Mining 19.12.2006

Squabbles among the Muslims

The regime is still supporting the executives of the Uganda Muslim Supreme Council even though certain dissident clerics claim it is corrupt.

Subscribers only Politics 15.12.2006

Chinese Dams for Oil Concessions

In a bid to help China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) acquire exploration acreage in Uganda (see P. 5), the [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.12.2006

UMEME Gets 20 Year Concession

A joint venture with the acronym UMEME that was formed [...]

Subscribers only Energy 12.12.2006

IBI Diversifies into Uranium

A producer of vermiculite, a mineral used primarily by farmers, since 2003, IBI Corp has made up its mind to [...]

Subscribers only Mining 05.12.2006

Troops based in Kenya for Somalia

The UPDF is to send troops to north eastern Kenya ahead of the intervention in Somalia by an African force to support the Baidoa based Somalian Transitional Federal Government in its fight against the militia of the Union of the Islamic Courts (UIC).

Subscribers only Politics 01.12.2006

An oil sheikh may invest

A Saudi businessman has had a meeting with President Museveni to discuss investing in the energy sector.

Subscribers only Business 01.12.2006

New Sugar Cane Waste Plant

Highly developed in the Indian Ocean islands, the use of sugar cane waste to generate power has now spread to [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.11.2006

French to Start Investing Again?

According to The Indian Ocean Newsletter (Indigo Publications), sister newsletter [...]

Subscribers only Energy 28.11.2006

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Uganda

New Oil Legislation

IFC is to fund the Safal group

American advisors being deployed

Museveni gives way

Servicemen in key posts

Kampala ready to fight the LRA

New Funding Arrangement

Consultants on Bujagali

Rio Tinto Steps In Quietly

Museveni doesn't trust his MPs

Mahmoud Hashish

New Power Plant

Discovery on Heritage’s Block

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Bad start to the new year for Gapco

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Squabbles among the Muslims

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Uganda

New Oil Legislation

IFC is to fund the Safal group

American advisors being deployed

Museveni gives way

Servicemen in key posts

Kampala ready to fight the LRA

New Funding Arrangement

Consultants on Bujagali

Rio Tinto Steps In Quietly

Museveni doesn't trust his MPs

Mahmoud Hashish

New Power Plant

Discovery on Heritage’s Block

Spotlight Bad start to the new year for Gapco

Libyan Arab Investments Co.

EIB to Finance Bujagali

Brian Hester

Squabbles among the Muslims

Chinese Dams for Oil Concessions

UMEME Gets 20 Year Concession

IBI Diversifies into Uranium

Troops based in Kenya for Somalia

An oil sheikh may invest

New Sugar Cane Waste Plant

French to Start Investing Again?

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About Africa Intelligence

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Africa Intelligence on social media

Indigo Publications' websites

Gabon
The secrets behind the FGIS, a sovereign wealth fund set adrift

Africa
Massad Boulos, a free agent of Donald Trump's African diplomacy under close watch

Spotlight
Bad start to the new year for Gapco