Uganda expects to announce the winning bidder among four groups competing for a new 60,000 barrel per day (bpd) oil refinery next month, the country’s Energy Minister Ruth Nankabirwa told Reuters on Tuesday. The development comes after negotiations with a consortium that included a unit of U.S. firm Baker Hughes (BKR.O) lapsed in June over its failure…
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A Ugandan business turns banana fiber into sustainable handicrafts
MUKONO, Uganda (AP) — A decapitated banana plant is almost useless, an inconvenience to the farmer who must then uproot it and lay its dismembered parts as mulch. But can such stems somehow be returned to life? Yes, according to a Ugandan company that’s buying banana stems in a business that turns fiber into attractive…
Uganda in talks with Chinese credit agency for pipeline funds – official
Uganda is in advanced talks with Chinese export credit agency SINOSURE to provide credit for its crude oil pipeline after pressure from environmentalists forced some Western banks to recoil from the project, a top official said on Monday. The 1,445-kilometre (898-mile) East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) is planned to help Uganda export its crude…
Airstrikes killed ‘a lot’ of rebels with ties to Islamic State in Congo- M7
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni said Saturday that recent airstrikes against rebels with ties to the Islamic State group in eastern Congo have killed “a lot” of the militants, possibly including a notorious bomb maker. The statement issued by the president’s office didn’t provide details on the Sept. 16 airstrikes targeting the Allied Democratic Forces, or…
Uganda starts initiatives to revive declining edible oil production
Uganda has initiated the rehabilitation of key access routes to oilseed projects in 81 locations in an effort to bolster its diminishing edible oil exports. The country is exploring strategies to revitalise its dwindling export earnings from edible fats and oils, which fell from Ush1.05 trillion ($281.1 million) in the same period last year to…
Sudan’s Burhan holds talks with M7 as battles rage in Khartoum
Sudan’s de facto leader Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan was pictured meeting with Uganda’s veteran President Yoweri Museveni at State House in the Ugandan town of Entebbe on what was described as a one-day working visit. Sudan’s de facto leader Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan held talks on Saturday with Uganda’s veteran President Yoweri Museveni on his latest diplomatic foray abroad. The Sudanese general was…
Unesco removes Ugandan kings’ tombs from endangered heritage list
On Tuesday, Unesco removed the Kasubi site, home to the tombs of the rulers of Buganda, the traditional kingdom of southern Uganda, from the list of World Heritage in Danger after it was damaged by fire in 2010. Located in the hills above the capital Kampala, this complex of circular buildings made of wood, reeds…
Terror Attack on Uganda Flops
Police in Uganda said on Sunday they had detained a 28-year-old man entering a church in the capital Kampala with an explosive device he planned to use for an attack there. Authorities were hunting three other men also believed to have been sent on similar bombing missions elsewhere in Uganda, police said. The motives were…
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