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Uganda
Museveni asks Paris for help in protecting TotalEnergies

The Ugandan president hopes that his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron will involve himself more in economic relations between the two countries, and in particular in the activities of TotalEnergies in Uganda. [...]

Published on 01/12/2022 at 06:00 GMT Reading time 2 minutes

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Sassou and Museveni set up African Global Security foundation to boost intelligence cooperation

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Museveni's anti-ADF offensive in Congo aims to reassure TotalEnergies and CNOOC

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Senegal
Guns and oil drive Russia's Dakar courtship

Botswana, South Africa
From Gaborone to Antwerp, is De Beers's empire on the rocks?

Uganda
Museveni asks Paris for help in protecting TotalEnergies

Spotlight | DRC, Tanzania, Uganda
Tshisekedi wants slice of planned Ugandan crude oil pipeline pie, TotalEnergies sceptical

Uganda
Museveni cuts security spending and MPs expenses to finance oil pipeline

Spotlight | Uganda
TotalEnergies faces rising religious opposition to EACOP project

Africa, Uganda
Sassou and Museveni set up African Global Security foundation to boost intelligence cooperation

Uganda
Museveni's anti-ADF offensive in Congo aims to reassure TotalEnergies and CNOOC

Uganda
Museveni determined to keep Kagame out of Lake Albert