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Museveni sets up yet another elite unit to fight gold smuggling

President Museveni recently set up a new unit to try to stamp out gold smuggling. His aim is to get Uganda out of the economic doldrums by convincing new operators to come into the country's gold mines. [...] (480 words)

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Emirates listen to Museveni at last

In the midst of the Gulf state's diplomatic offensive in Africa, Yoweri Museveni's regime has been able to establish a sustainable relationship with the UAE. [...]

UGANDA 12/05/2021

Australians warned about Museveni's new production sharing contracts Free

Uganda is a risky place to invest due to lack of clarity on the future of existing exploitation permits and due to changes in taxation under the new Mining Act, according to a consulting firm advising Australian mining and energy groups. [...]

UGANDA 10/03/2021

Affluent Nimisha Madhvani back at helm of Copenhagen embassy

The well-heeled heir to the Madhvani Group, Nimisha Madhvani, is back in charge of the Ugandan embassy to the nordic countries that she had left in August 2020 following the leak of a audio recording in which she can be heard dishing out leftover embassy money to members of her staff. [...]

Nimisha Madhvani when she was Ambassador in Spain. © Sergio Barrenechea/EFE/Newscom/MaxPPP

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES UGANDA 09/02/2021

Museveni makes Dubai first port of call for new jumbo jets

Uganda Airlines's decision to start operating direct flights to Dubai coincides neatly with President Yoweri Museveni's drive to attract Emirati investors to Uganda. [...]

UGANDA 02/11/2020

US Navy invests in Uganda's base on the Nile in Jinja

The United States Armed Forces plan to invest an additional $1m on new installations for the Uganda People's Defence Forces (UPDF) in the coming months. This time, it is the US Navy's turn to step up. [...]

UGANDA 28/07/2020

Museveni begins umpteenth minerals police clean-up mission

The Ugandan president has launched a probe into suspected embezzlement, harassment and illicit trade by the hands of the mining police, far from the first investigation opened since the unit was created in 2017. [...]

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. © Daniel Irungu/EPA/Newscom/MaxPPP

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UGANDA 28/04/2020

How Pouyanné used Covid crisis to Total's advantage in Tullow acquisition

In between cancelled meetings, Total and Tullow Oil were able to prompt swift action from President Yoweri Museveni over the Lake Albert asset sale. Now all that remains to be seen is what CNOOC will decide to do. [...]

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UGANDA 07/01/2020

Total/Tullow Oil: why Yoweri Museveni turned his oil commando unit on its head

Wanting to push ahead with the development of the Lake Albert fields that Tullow Oil and Heritage Oil discovered since 2006 and are presently under Tullow/Total and Cnooc's watch, President Yoweri Museveni made pivotal changes to Uganda's top oil staff [. [...]

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UGANDA 09/12/2016

The generals' parallel business dealings

After military and other security services officers defrauded BMP Poland - a Warsaw-based supplier of arms and equipment for police and armed forces - of €550,000 the government has begun to investigate the business dealings which security services conduct to [. [...]

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