SV: {UAH} Uganda sitting on a pile of uranium
Jim, what has Gwokto expressed?!
Noc'l
"WE FORM THE CULTURE THAT FORMS US"….noc'la gaumoy.
Den måndag, 14 april 2014 9:07 skrev jim muwanga <muwangajim@gmail.com>:
Now go back to the question about Obama and interest in Uganda / KonyGwokotYou finally get it!!!!!!!!!!!!! geeeez but you were slow !......I thot u waz smart.
On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 2:00 PM, gaumoy nockrach-laduma <rawnuntamed@yahoo.com> wrote:
Wod Twon, while at it, what is the volume of Uganda's export to India right now?
Those mothers are dominating textile industries, supplying the whole world with
their monotaneous clothe design. And in Uganda cotton growers can not make a living
on the product?
Let them first talk about buying Ugandan cotton so Ugandan can live gööööd.
That is more urgent than Ugandas Uran.
Noc'l
"WE FORM THE CULTURE THAT FORMS US"….noc'la gaumoy.
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Den sön 2014-04-13 skrev Gwokto La'Kitgum <lakitgum@gmail.com>:
Ämne: {UAH} Uganda sitting on a pile of uranium
Till: "ugandans-at-heart" <ugandans-at-heart@googlegroups.com>
Datum: söndag 13 april 2014 13:29
Uganda, with uranium, oil and gas, seeks
India's help
By Biswajit
Choudhury
New Delhi, April 13 (IANS) — Uganda, sitting on a
"pile of uranium", is seeking India's
knowhow to develop its reserves and open up new vistas of
energy cooperation between historically linked countries, a
visiting Ugandan minister has said.
Ephraim
Kwamuntu, Ugandan minister of water and environment, said
his country was keen on mutually beneficial cooperation with
India to develop energy resources.
"Uganda is
sitting on a pile of uranium, for instance, and Indian
knowhow would be very useful in accessing this,"
Kwamuntu told IANS in an interview. "We have uranium,
oil and gas. Here, India with its knowhow and expertise can
help," he added.
Explaining that
Uganda had to increase manifold its energy generation
capacity to achieve the status of a middle-income country,
Kwamuntu said India had a lot to offer in this regard.
"The sun
is directly overhead in equatorial Africa, yet in Uganda
only 14 percent of the population has access to electricity.
The remaining 86 percent go to bed with sunset. What would
you expect about this population," the minister asked
rhetorically.
Uganda has been
in talks with India about accessing its uranium reserves and
for India training its engineers in this area.
Uganda's planning minister had earlier led a business
delegation to India that held talks with the Confederation
of Indian Industry on developing Uganda's uranium
sector, among others.
With nuclear
energy becoming an important source in India's
potential energy mix, and with its own comparatively modest
reserves, India has been discussing uranium purchase from
various African countries.
On the other
hand, with Africa emerging as an important supplier of
uranium, many countries of the continent have shown interest
in doing business with India. These include South Africa,
the only African member of the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG)
and Namibia, which produced 4,000 tonnes of uranium in 2012.
India has signed a uranium agreement with Namibia as well as
a protocol in 2011 for supplying the mineral.
Other
uranium-rich African countries keen to cooperate with India
include Tanzania, Malawi, Mali and Niger.
Kwamuntu explained that there was both the experience and
the technology aspects to cooperation with India, whose
technology "is more applicable to our situation than
the advanced technology of the Americans".
"We have a lot to learn from India, which is now
almost a superpower. But we know where it has come from. It
has come from where we are. So we can learn from your
experiences about how you transformed a country that was
also once food insecure," the minister told IANS.
The use of
English and similar legal systems were some of the other
commonalities which facilitated cooperation, he pointed
out.
"A number
of our students come down here to study. Many Ugandans who
have gone onto leadereship roles have trained in India.
Prime ministers, ministers, permanent secretaries –
the whole lot have been students who studied here
(India)," Kwamuntu said.
Pointing out
that Uganda's relations with India go beyond mere
trade to historical and cultural links, building on which
Ugandan Indian have established themselves in every sector
of the economy.
"In the
history of Uganda, industrial development started when the
British (colonists) imported a lot of Indians to come
construct a railway line from Mombasa port on the Indian
Ocean, inland. When the railways completed, the Indians
never went back and went on to become the pillars of
industry in our country," Kwamuntu said.
"Madhvanis
are an Indian company huge in manufacturing and sugar. There
are a whole range of Patels with a number of investments.
There are also a lot of Ismailis (followers of the Aga
Khan)," the minister said of Indian-origin people who
play a major role in Uganda's economy.
(Biswajit
Choudhury can be reached at biswajit.c@ians.in)
IANS 2014-04-13 15:30:04
___________________________________Gwokto
La'Kitgum"Even a
small dog can piss on a tall Building", Jim
Hightower
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