Kenya has lost $200 million worth of exports to Uganda, its largest regional market, since October 2023, new data shows. And experts warn that it will lose more going forward, as the fight over petroleum products imports escalates, with major oil infrastructure at the risk of underuse. Last week, Uganda announced that it was moving…
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Why Uganda picked UAE firm to refuel its oil refinery project.
In picking a United Arab Emirates (UAE) firm as the lead developer and investor for its 60,000-barrels-per-day oil refinery, Uganda has yet again opted for an outlier with the financial muscle but no technical expertise or footprint in the development of downstream refining facilities for oil and gas. January 23, Energy Minister Ruth Nankabirwa announced…
Ugandan student who died in Egyptian police cells returned, buried
Augandan student who died in Egyptian police cells has been returned and laid to rest at his ancestral police in Luwero district. Ahmad Mukasa Nsanja, 30, was a student at Alazhar University in Cairo. He was arrested on December 27, 2023 after he was found with no visa. He was detained at First Settlement police…
NRM celebrates 38th Liberation Day in uganda
On 26th January 1996 NRA took over power in Kampala, today Uganda on Friday marked the 38th NRM Liberation Day when the party National Resistance Movement (NRM) overthrew the then sitting government and took over power in 1986 after a five-year guerrilla war in the east African country. President Yoweri Museveni who led the guerrilla…
Ugandans dying of hunger are idiots, says Minister Oryem.
This was as a result of president Museveni speech during the Non-Aligned- Movement (NAM) SUMMIT that Ugandans who are starving near to death due famine in karamoja sub region that’s not the station in africa . Hon Okello Oryem said this on the interview made on one of the TV in uganda, where he called…
Uganda ,UAE in negotiation over oil refinery.
The United Arab Emirate’s Alpha MBM Investments LLC was chosen by Uganda from five companies that submitted bids for the project, Energy and Mineral Development Minister Ruth Nankabirwa told the BBC Newsday programme. The two parties are expected to reach a deal within three months. “We hope they are not going to spend a lot…
Museveni honours Cecil Atim Ogwal
When she was elected to the Pan African Parliament (PAP), you would not know that she was not NRM [a member of the ruling National Resistance Movement party]; she was a big defender of Uganda out there,” he said. Fondly referring to the late as Cissy Ogwal, the president said that she was a very…
Parliament to pay tribute to Cecilia Ogwal
The casket, accompanied by pallbearers from the Uganda Police Force was received by Speaker of Parliament, Anita Among, and other Members of Parliament. The casket now lies at the Central Lobby where Members of Parliament and other mourners will view the body and sign the condolence book. Ogwal, 77, breathed her last on Thursday 18th, 2024…
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