Daily Monitor
Friday May 14 2021
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The countries agreed to work together on transport and communication, defence and security, education, culture and sports.
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President Museveni and his Burundian counterpart, Mr Evariste Ndayishimiye, have agreed to strengthen cooperation on agriculture, energy, trade, health, finance, tourism, and investment.
State House last evening said the two leaders after meeting at State House to commemorate Mr Ndayishimiye’s two-day state visit, which ended yesterday, committed to work together on transport and communication, defence and security, education, culture, and sports.
“In this regard, they directed their respective ministers to ensure that implementation of existing agreements, memoranda of understanding and other frameworks of cooperation, is fast-tracked,” a joint communique signed by Uganda’s Foreign Minister Sam Kuteesa and his Burundian counterpart Ambassador Albert Shingiro, read in part.
Samia Suluhu, nine other African presidents in Uganda for Museveni inauguration
Wednesday May 12 2021
Kenya president Uhuru Kenyatta arrives at Entebbe Airport for the swearing-in ceremony of president Museveni on May 12, 2021. PHOTO/ PPU
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At least 11 African heads of state arrived in Uganda Tuesday and Wednesday to witness the swearing-in ceremony of President Yoweri Museveni who has been in power since 1986.
Tanzania president Samia Suluhu Hassan arrives at Entebbe Airport for the swearing-in ceremony of president Museveni on May 12, 2021. PHOTO/ PPU
They include; Évariste Ndayishimiye (Burundi), Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed (Somalia), Emmerson Mnangagwa (Zimbabwe), Salva Kiir (South Sudan), Hage Gottfried Geingob (Namibia) and Alpha Conde (Guinea).
African heads of state in Uganda for Museveni inauguration
Wednesday May 12 2021
Kenya s President Uhuru Kenyatta arrives at Entebbe Airport ahead of the swearing-in ceremony of Uganda s President Yoweri Museveni on May 12, 2021. PHOTO | PPU
Summary
At least 10 African heads of state arrived in Uganda Tuesday and Wednesday to witness the swearing-in ceremony of President Yoweri Museveni who has been in power since 1986.
They include Évariste Ndayishimiye (Burundi), Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed, alias Farmaajo, (Somalia), Emmerson Mnangagwa (Zimbabwe), Salva Kiir (South Sudan), Hage Gottfried Geingob (Namibia) and Alpha Conde (Guinea).
Others are Sahle-Work Zewde (Federal Republic of Ethiopia), Félix Antoine Tshisekedi Tshilombo (Democratic Republic of Congo), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo (Ghana), Samia Suluhu (Tanzania) and Uhuru Kenyatta (Kenya) who arrived at Entebbe on Wednesday.
Daily Monitor
Wednesday May 12 2021
Government has been slowly taking back control of key sectors of the economy after an attempt to create a private sector led economy has not created sufficient growth. PHOTO/FILE
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Elements of policy reversal such as creation of an investment agency under Uganda Development Corporation and now the establishment of Uganda Airlines, which is 100 per cent government-owned suggest a shift from hard-core liberalism that government had adopted in the late 90s and onwards until the late 2019s.
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Well, some historians and politicians, including Prof Yash Tandon, have argued differently.
In his book - Common People’s Uganda - Prof Tandon argues that President Museveni only used Marxism as an excuse to rally a power grab but never understood its workings and was quick to abandon his idealism at the slightest challenge by capitalist frontiers.
Africa’s national airlines face troubled skies
The continent’s aviation industry won’t survive unless countries start cooperating with each other.
(Oupa Nkosi)
Over the past half-century, the financial outlook of African airlines has often been more turbulent than the flights themselves. Many carriers formed in the post-independence era had entered receivership by the early 2000s, including Uganda Airlines, Air Tanzania and the West African Air Afrique. Yet, after the economic downturn from 2007 to 2009, African leaders recommitted public resources to general aviation, allocating billions to new international gateways and airlines to service them.
Aiming for the same heights as Ethiopian and Singapore airlines, these carriers had additional backing from international creditors bullish on growing passenger numbers and record industry profits.