In an article published by the Daily Monitor, on Thursday October 2, 2014, the President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni said the government will change the law to allow intending investors in the mining industry to access private land that contains minerals without negotiating with the land owners. The President is quoted to have said “the
South Sudan must have been waiting with bated breath or should we say eavesdropping on the conversations between Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda that have been the centre of media attention this week. The President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has been hosting his colleagues Uhuru Kenyatta, the Kenyan President and Paul Kagame, the President of
It is arguably the next industry that every Ugandan is observing; and for Uganda Revenue Authority, the mining and quarrying industry is one to court. In a stakeholders’ engagement held at Silver Springs hotel in Bugolobi, Patrick Mukiibi, the Commissioner Tax Investigations, noted that the engagement was organised to educate the participants from the
UK’s Department for International Development and Department for International Trade have published a summary of 27 commercial deals from across the African markets invited to the UK-Africa Investment Summit. According to the departments, the deals are worth over £6.5 billion. They said this in a statement released at the ongoing UK-Africa Investment Summit held in
Government together with the Petroleum Companies; Total E & P Uganda and Tullow Uganda Operations Pty Limited, have completed an assessment of all the project affected persons (PAPS) and communicated the cut-off date for the industrial area under the resettle action plan 1 (RAP 1) for Tilenga project. According to a joint statement from the
The Uganda Chamber of Mines and Petroleum (UCMP) has elected new board members. In elections that took place last week, UCMP members re-elected Dr.Elly Karuhanga as the board chairman, while new entrant, Dr Josephine Wapakabulo, CEO, Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC ) joined the Chamber as special advisor. Karuhanga is the founding chairman of the
Uganda and Tanzania announced progress in the negotiations preceding the construction of a Crude Oil Export pipeline from oil-rich Albertine graben to Tanzanian Northeastern port of Tanga. Officials, technocrats and investors are holding a series of close door meetings which targets January 2017 as the project commencement time and 2019/2020 as the completion deadline. At
By Dickens Kamugisha…. I would like to congratulate Ugandans for having successfully elected a president and their parliamentary representatives. To the winners and losers, I say we embark on the task of building the Uganda we want. Among these tasks is holding government accountable for its actions or lack thereof. Before we went to the
Cabinet has approved plans to open up six blocks in the Albertine Graben for licensing in the country’s first competitive bidding round. State Minister for Energy, Eng. Simon D’ujanga, informed parliament last week that preparations for this bidding round commenced after the new law was put in place and were now culminating with the submission
Total in conjunction with Tullow Uganda Operations PTY Ltd have issued an invitation to contractors to carry out a comprehensive Resettlement Action Plan (RAP) for the oil and gas development project in Nwoya, Buliisa, Masindi, and Hoima districts in the Lake Albert Basin. Total is the operator of Exploration Area 1 and 1A in Uganda