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Museveni calls signing of oil pipeline deal ‘third victory’ for Uganda, Tanzania
Monday April 12 2021
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President Museveni said that when the Tanzanian route became viable, a new consideration crossed his mind the historical contribution of Tanzania in the liberation of Uganda in both 1978-79 and 1985-86.
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has called the April 11 signing of the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline deal between Tanzania and Uganda a third victory for them, saying the date is a sentimental one.
This was President Samia Suluhu Hassan s first trip outside Tanzania as head of State since she took oath of office on March 19, following the death of President John Magufuli.
Uganda, Tanzania sign crude oil pipeline deal
Monday April 12 2021
By DAILY MONITOR
Summary
President Museveni said that when the Tanzanian route became viable, a new consideration crossed his mind the historical contribution of Tanzania in the liberation of Uganda in both 1978-79 and 1985-86.
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni has called the April 11 signing of the East Africa Crude Oil Pipeline deal between Tanzania and Uganda a third victory for them, saying the date is a sentimental one.
This was President Samia Suluhu Hassan s first trip outside Tanzania as head of State since she took oath of office on March 19, following the death of President John Magufuli.
Daily Monitor
Sunday April 11 2021
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Uganda had been liberated – the last liberation. At the time, Gaddafi’s Libya was considered the most powerful militarily on the continent (outside apartheid South Africa) and the loud Amin, considered himself the second most powerful.
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On April 11, 1979, a combined force of Tanzania People’s Defence Forces (TPDF) and Uganda National Liberation Army (UNLA), in an operation that shook the African continent at the time, saw the official collapse of Idi Amin’s regime when then Lt Col David Oyite-Ojok announced on Radio Uganda that the regime of murder and terror was no more; Kampala had fallen and Amin and his henchmen - backed by Gaddafi’s Libyan mercenaries and machinery - were on the run.
Daily Monitor
Wednesday February 24 2021
Uganda Golf Club golfers form an arch using golf clubs to salute the fallen former club captain Prof Anthony Kerali after requiem Mass at St Augustine Church Makerere University, Kampala, yesterday. PHOTO | STEPHEN OTAGE
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He dressed elegantly and lived a flamboyant life.
Born Anthony Geoffrey Genmungu Kerali, the boy from Erussi in Nebbi District grew into a trailblazing engineering professional, consultant, academic and golfer.
He lived at Plot 1, Prince Charles Drive in Kololo, Kampala’s upscale neighbourhood, where he died abruptly on February 18 of a still unknown cause.
As fate would have it, one of his last tweets was cryptic; a recollection of a question by a retired judge on why only three northerners can presently afford to live in Kololo.