Uganda

BATTLE OF PORT CHARGES

A delegation of Ugandan businessmen visited Tanzania last week in an attempt to awaken top officials of Tanzania Railways Corporation [...]

NEW KING OF BUGANDA

Crown prince Ronald Mutebi, (son of Mutesa II who reigned from 1939 to 1966), already proclaimed Ssabataka (chief of all [...]

PLANS FOR EXTENSION OF KAKIRA SUGAR PLANTATION GET ADB FINANCING

The African Development Bank group (ADB) was expected to approve last month to finance a pre-investment study on expanding sugar [...]

DEREGULATING THE COTTON INDUSTRY

A World Bank mission is due to arrive in the Ugandan capital, Kampala in July to evaluate a project to [...]

BRITISH AID FOR 1993

During a recent address given at the East Africa Association (EAA) in London, British minister for Cooperation and Development, Lynda [...]

The EEC is to finance, with 27,8 million ecus (20 [...]

CHINESE FIRM FOR CIVIL WORKS ON OWEN FALLS II

SIETCO, a Chinese company already active in the country (it [...]

PETROFINA HALTS EXPLORATION

When Petrofina presented its provisional results for 1992 in February [...]

RESTORING THE MONARCHY

The idea of a "cultural" restoration of the monarchy in Uganda is rapidly gaining ground. Outside Buganda, where the crown [...]

IFC COMING UP ROSES

The International Finance Corporation, a World Bank affiliate specialized in private-sector loans has announced its intention to accord two credits, [...]

DANISH AND FRENCH AID PROJECTS

At a meeting on eastern Africa organized in Paris last week by the Centre Français du Commerce Extérieure (CFCE), the [...]

PROPARCO TO CO-FINANCE PROJECT

An affiliate of the Caisse Française de Developpement that specializes in the private sector, Proparco, considers helping to fund two [...]

MONEY OUT OF EIB IN 1992

According to the 1992 annual report recently issued by the European Investment Bank (EIB), only a third of its credits [...]

FRENCH COMPANIES MAKE PROGRESS

A recent bulletin issued by the French commercial expansion post in the Uganda capital, Kampala has confirmed that the French [...]

PRIVATE FRENCH PROJECTS

The director of the east Africa department at Proparco, the private sector arm of the Caisse Française de Développement (CFD), [...]

CREDIT FOR PRIMARY EDUCATION

The International Development Association (IDA), affiliate of the World Bank, recently approved a 52.6-million dollar credit to the Ugandan education [...]

SEBIRUMI KISINZIGGO

The Ethiopian government expelled the first secretary from the Ugandan [...]

DONORS OFFER $825 MILLION

At the World Bank Consultative Group meeting on Uganda in Paris on May 27 and 28, the donors pledged 825 [...]

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OBSTACLES TO PRIVATE INVESTMENT

The Ugandan authorities this week attended several meetings with donors and potential foreign investors. At the World Bank Consultative Group meeting in Paris on May 27 and 28, the Kampala government was expected, according to an official from the Ugandan [.