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President receives letters of credence from Russian Envoy

STATE HOUSE, ENTEBBE: President Yoweri Museveni has today received credentials of the new Ambassador of the Russian Federation to Uganda H.E. Semivolos Vladlen. Amb. Semivolos was accompanied by the Chargé d'Affaires Dr. Evgeny Kalashnikov.

President Museveni told his guest that the relationship between Africa and the Soviet Union started immediately after the communist revolution against socialism way back by 1917. 

Cuba to exchange Covid-19 Vaccines for Ugandan Goods

President Yoweri Museveni has called on Cuba to identify the agricultural products that it needs from Uganda.

“Brief us on your needs in agricultural products so that we may sell to you. I agree with you over the proposal of trade between Uganda and Cuba,” the President asked his guest in response to the Ambassador’s proposal to have barter trade between the two countries.

Tanzania to Establish Port Office in Kampala for Coordination

DAR ES SALAAM, TANZANIA: President Yoweri Museveni has directed the Minister of East African Affairs as well as the Uganda High commissioner to Tanzania to facilitate the setting up of Tanzania Ports Authority offices in Kampala, a move agreed upon by the two heads of State to fast track the transportation of goods and services for the new crude Oil pipeline and also ease the cost of doing business between the two countries. 

EACOP, Vaccine Production Dominate Uganda, Tanzania Talks

DAR-ES-SALAAM, TANZANIA: President Yoweri Museveni and his host Tanzania President Samia Suluhu Hassan have agreed on various key strategic projects that will deepen cooperation in trade and development, notable among which is the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) project that will not only see oil flow downstream from the Albertine region and in future from Kadam in Karamoja, DR.Congo and South Sudan but will also see gas flow from the coastal region in Tanzania upstream, to the continents inlands.

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