Uganda Turns To Turkey To Build Railway After Chinese Talks Collapse
January 15th, 2023
Via Quartz, a report that Uganda has turned to Turkey to build its railway after talks with Chinese firms fell through: Uganda has canceled all contractual work it signed with China Harbour Engineering Company to build a 273-kilometer standard gauge railway (SGR) from its border with Kenya to its capital in Kampala, after the project failed to kick off […]
Read more »Uganda: Most Promising Financial Sector In Eastern Africa
October 19th, 2022
Via Quartz, a look at Uganda’s promising financial sector: Kampala could soon dislodge Nairobi from its status as the financial capital of eastern Africa if Uganda continues with measures that have seen it rise to become the regions’ most developed financial sector. This is according to the sixth edition of the 2022 Absa Africa Financial Markets […]
Read more »Uganda Confirms Mega Pipeline Project Despite European Criticism
September 20th, 2022
Via The Africa Report, an article on Uganda’s determination to proceed with an oil pipeline mega-project despite European criticism: Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni announced on 16 September that the Lake Albert oil megaproject, planned with the French group TotalEnergies, would go ahead despite a European Parliament resolution criticising “human rights violations” against opponents. The project “will […]
Read more »Uganda Supports Somalia’s Bid To Join the EAC
August 14th, 2022
Via The Ugandan Monitor, a report on Ugandan President Museveni pledge to support Somalia in its bid to join the East African Community (EAC) : President Museveni has pledged to support Somalia in its bid to join the East African Community (EAC) and exploit trade opportunities that exist in the region. Mr Museveni said Somalia […]
Read more »Is Uganda’s Entebbe Airport At Risk of Seizure By China?
March 6th, 2022
Via Quartz Africa, a look at the realities behind China’s debt financing of African infrastructure: Late last year, local and international media reported that Uganda’s Entebbe International Airport was at risk of being taken over by China upon default on a loan for the upgrade and expansion of the airport. The controversial news was even turned into a skit by […]
Read more »Pipe Dreams In Uganda
February 22nd, 2022
Via The Economist, a report on a large scale Ugandan oil project: Soon more than 200,000 barrels of oil a day will flow through Fred Lubowa’s garden: past his tin-roofed house, under his banana trees, and beneath the spot which currently houses the family graves. But for now the only sign of the disruption to […]
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