Uganda

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MUSEVENI DOES BETTER THAN NRM

Uganda's elections of March 28 for the constituent assembly may have been an undoubted success for the head of state, Yoweri Museveni, but they are unlikely to allow his party National Resistance Movement (NRM) to become an autonomous political force.

FUNDS FOR THE ROAD NETWORK

The Ugandan government and fund donors recently worked out a programme over four years (1994 to 1998) for maintenance work [...]

SUCCESS FOR NRM

According to first results of the March 28 ballot to designate 214 of the 288 members of Uganda's constituent assembly [...]

BIG JACKSON OCANA

The former head of chancery (and first secretary) in Uganda's [...]

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THE SOUTH AFRICAN AND CHINESE OUTSIDERS

Times are going to be very hard. With the arrival in East Africa of South African outsiders, of Chinese firms with price dumping in public works sectors, of Japanese companies' renewed aggressiveness in several sectors (telecommunications, electricity distribution, road construction), [.

PETER OTAI

The former defence minister of ex-president Milton Obote has created an anti-government guerrilla movement, the Uganda Popular Freedom Movement, at [...]

ODED BEN AMI

The spokesman of Israel's defence ministry indicated on March 21 [...]

ENTEBBE GETS SABENA'S BETS

The chairman of Belgian's national airline SABENA, Pierre Godfroid, took advantage of a recent visit to Kampala to hold discussions [...]

SCHNEIDER BEEFS UP PROFILE

Schneider has just inaugurated a new commercial representation office in the region, this time at Kitwe in northern Zambia, it [...]

EIB IN PIPELINE PROJECT

Negotiations are underway on a plan calling for the European Investment Bank to finance a technical and economic feasibility study [...]

FINANCE HANGING FIRE

Although negotiations between the Ugandan government and the International Development Association have been completed, disbursement of an IDA loan of [...]

DAVID STEEL AND TOM CLARKE

The British MPs, Sir David Steel (Liberal) and Tom Clarke [...]

BOOM IN PRIVATIZATIONS

Several state-owned companies which were put up for sale by sealed-bid auction recently stirred the interest of foreign investors. In [...]

The World Bank consultative group on Uganda, which was to [...]

The Divestiture and Reform Implementation Committee has published a list [...]

The International Development Association is considering authorizing a credit line [...]

FAITES VOS JEUX!

The Ugandan government is currently examining the possibility of creating a national lottery and the French parastatal La Française des [...]

YOWERI MUSEVENI

Uganda's head of state revealed on January 26 that his [...]

REVAMPING ELECTRICITY NETWORKS

Uganda Electricity Board (UEB) has called on the African Development Fund (ADF) to finance rehabilitation of the electricity distribution networks [...]