Oil, oil, every where! Watch this space--in the not too distant future, Uganda too will become a major oil producing country. Large reserves of good quality oil have just been discovered in the north of the country, reports Agnes Assimwe from Kampala.

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Oil, oil, every where! Watch this space--in the not too distant future, Uganda too will become a major oil producing country. Large reserves of good quality oil have just been discovered in the north of the country, reports Agnes Assimwe from Kampala.

Five days after swearing in as president in January 1986, President Yoweri Museveni received officials from Shell BP and Exxon into his office. They wanted an oil exploration licence. "My question to them was whether there was anybody in Uganda who understood petroleum. They brought me an economist from the Bank of Uganda. He was from Ghana and his only linkage to petroleum was ha...

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