NGOs Join Journalists in Demanding Full Disclosure of Uganda’s Oil Agreements. A Ugandan court today heard an application by a group of civil society organizations seeking to be included in an appeal in a case over access to government information filed by two senior Daily Monitor journalists, Charles Mwanguhya Mpagi and Angelo Izama.
The 'Resource Curse:' Uganda's Upcoming Oil Wealth is a Global Challenge on Multiple Fronts. Cashing in on Uganda's oil boom. 9 November 2011Last updated at 12:11 Trisa Kabaganda started with a restaurant and a boutique Trisa Kabaganda knows that, as the Ugandan proverb goes, it is only the early risers who succeed in filling their baskets with white ants.
And when oil was discovered in the Hoima district of Western Uganda, she was an early riser. She realised that people working in the oil industry would soon need local services and accommodation, and decided to grab the opportunity that was knocking at her door. She started with a restaurant and a boutique, but has gone on to open the Trisek Hotel in Hoima Town, the district's capital, in August this year. Lately she has also been filling her baskets with villas, 14 of them so far.
They surround the hotel - which overlooks the beautiful Hoima hills - and are all named after wild animals found in the nearby Murchison Falls national park. A road to riches. Uganda Welcomes Oil, but Fears Graft It Attracts. Despite Ugandans’ dreams of industrialization, the country’s most lucrative export is coffee, and fish is second.
Nearly 40 percent of the population survives on less than $1.25 a day, according to the World Bank. But when oil starts pumping within the next several years, the expected revenue of up to $2 billion a year could propel Uganda into the strata of middle-income countries, where few sub-Saharan African countries rank. A refinery will be built; infrastructure is promised.
US denies interest in Uganda oil. THE US on Monday denied that its renewed interest in Uganda is a strategy to get hold of the newly found oil in the country.
The US government has announced that it will deploy troops to help Uganda fight the rebels of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) who are currently in the Central African Republic. Critics have said that the only reason that America seems to be coming up strongly to offer troops to help in fighting Kony when they did not when he was killing people here was because of the oil. But the Charge d’Affairs at the American embassy in Kampala, Virginia Blaser, said yesterday that the US has been helping Uganda with especially with the humanitarian situation in the North where Kony was killing people. She was addressing journalists at a press conference. “The US is deeply committed to supporting Uganda’s effort to eliminate the threat of LRA and providing humanitarian assistance to LRA affected regions,” Blazer said. Obama Takes on the LRA. The KONY 2012 Campaign is a Fraud. : WTF.
Barry from Look What I Did responds to Invisible Children Organization.html. While being featured in a critical article on the official website of such a large non-profit is both disturbing and flattering, my feelings about the organization remain largely firm.
However, it appears that my candid comments struck a chord with Invisible Children; they finally decided to admit that they do support putting the US Military on the ground in Uganda. While the well-meaning people at IC might believe that the US Military is an effective assassin or policeman for the arrest, murder, or capture of individual non-state aggressors, the millions of lives lost in a multi-country pursuit of Osama Bin Ladin prove the exact opposite. In reality, allowing the US Military to intervene in the Ugandan civil war will doubtlessly involve one of three things: (1) An invasion with ground forces to "promote stability" and "train Ugandan forces". This would quickly deteriorate into an occupation, much like what is going on in Iraq or Afghanistan. (2) "Targeted" missile strikes. Invisible Children. International : Foreign Charity Support Organizations Using the power of stories to change lives around the world Charts Contributions, Gifts & Grants Fundraising Program Expenses We believe in the equal and inherent value of all human life.
Invisible Children focuses exclusively on the LRA conflict through an integrated four-part model that addresses the problem in its entirety: immediate needs and long-term effects. Charities Performing Similar Types of Work Highly Rated Most Viewed. The World Factbook. ShowIntroduction :: UGANDA Panel - Collapsed The colonial boundaries created by Britain to delimit Uganda grouped together a wide range of ethnic groups with different political systems and cultures.
These differences prevented the establishment of a working political community after independence was achieved in 1962. The dictatorial regime of Idi AMIN (1971-79) was responsible for the deaths of some 300,000 opponents; guerrilla war and human rights abuses under Milton OBOTE (1980-85) claimed at least another 100,000 lives. The rule of Yoweri MUSEVENI since 1986 has brought relative stability and economic growth to Uganda.