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1. Uganda: Kenya-China Rail to Aid Coal Imports to Uganda

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   25 October 2012 AllAfrica.com - The new railway line Kenya and Chinese authorities are planning on will transport coal from Tanzania to Uganda for steel making. The rail deal worth $2.6 billion is one of those infrastructure components that Beijing has budgeted for in its three-year $20 billion planned investment in Africa, which is double the amount China gave three years ago. Kenya secretly signed with a Chinese construction company, China Roads and Bridges Company, to build a new standard gauge railway line between Mombasa and Nairobi to be completed in five years. Read the complete…

2. Uganda to get renewable energy plant

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   16 February 2011 A power plant that will produce 40MW is to be built in Uganda by Taylor Biomass Energy Uganda (TBEU). The scheme, which will burn rubbish and convert it into electricity, is set to improve energy infrastructure in the country and it will cost $160 million (£99 million) to construct, Reuters reports. According to the news provider, energy shortages have stunted the growth of the manufacturing sector in the nation. It is set to be the first renewable project in Uganda, which is the third-biggest economy in east Africa. "Almost 1,030 tonnes daily of municipal solid waste [will be recycled]…

3. Uganda: Donors pledge Shs968b for power lines

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   of power transmission lines, substations, conduct feasibility studies and corporate governance in Uganda. Officials at the Uganda Electricity Transmission Company Limited (UETCL) told the Daily Monitor work…

4. Tanzania: Dar es Salaam to Build Undersea Cable to Uganda

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   8 October 2012 AllAfrica.com - Tanzania has entered into a contract with Uganda to build an alternative route for the undersea cable via Mutukula to overcome the inconveniences caused by businesses persistent internet cable breakdown. The move comes after Uganda government invited an international firm for the construction of an alternative internet cable in the country to end the ongoing connectivity blues in the landlocked country. Mr. Nicodemus Mnungu the Tanzania Telecommunication Company Limited (TTCL), Commercial Executive, said the alternative broadband backbone will enable Uganda widen…

5. Kenya-Uganda railway threatened by lack of capital

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   13 January 2010 The shareholders of Rift Valley Railways (RVR) have been issued an ultimatum and given a two-week deadline by the Kenya and Uganda governments to commute their interests to the Kenya-Uganda Railway Holdings. For the past 18 months, RVR shareholders' arrangement had its partners only able to inject funds in proportion to lead investor Sheltam Rail Company's equity stake in the concessionaire, Business Daily reported - which was not enough. More was needed to buy rolling stock, pay government feeds and encourage employee productivity. Dr Cyrus Njiru, co-chair of the Joint Railway…

6. Uganda railway link 'vital'

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   Uganda and Tanzania, it has been stated. Experts believe landlocked nations such as Uganda will need to look at ways of improving their infrastructure in order to benefit more from the trade arrangement, reports East Africa Business Week. Ramathan Ggoobi, a lecturer in the Department of Finance at Makerere University Business School, said that Uganda's reliance on transporting goods on roads,…

7. Institutional And Gender Dimensions Of Energy Service Provision For Empowering The Rural Poor In Uganda

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   Back to results Institutional And Gender Dimensions Of Energy Service Provision For Empowering The Rural Poor In Uganda Author DFID - Collaborative Research Group on Gender and Energy (CRGGE) Description This case study examines how renewable energy service interventions at two sites in Uganda have contributed to the process of empowering women as well as addressing the different needs of women…

8. Uganda gets development loan from World Bank

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   4 October 2010 Uganda will have its national budget augmented by $100 million (£63 million) from the World Bank to improve programmes in the country. Sector reforms will be directed at wealth, education, water, sanitation and transport through the Poverty Reduction Support Credit scheme. It will be the first of the three operations to support Uganda's national development plan. Kundhavi Kadiresan, World Bank country manager for Uganda, noted the amount given actually represents a reduction on the previous years' amounts. "[It] is indicative of the slow progress towards the establishment…

9. Will Kenya or Uganda be east Africa's first oil producer?

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   13 May 2014 Guardian.co.uk Two countries press ahead with production, boosting hopes of increased revenues and job creation, but obstacles remain. The race is on between Uganda and Kenya to see…

10. Government funds $400m worth of priority roads in Uganda

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    sector. Not only has the sector been garnering over a trillion over the past four FYs, it got sh2.3 trillion, by far the biggest budgetary allocation to the sector off the consolidated fund in Uganda’s…