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Kenya Crude Oil

Kenya crude oil capacity economically unviable for refinery

Deposits discovered in Kenya are insufficient to justify construction of a refinery, a senior petroleum ministry official said on Tuesday. Kenya discovered commercial oil in 2012 in its Lokichar…

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Tin Mining

Eyes on value addition

Deep inside Rwemizi village in Ruhama Parish, Ntungamo district a group of miners have resolved to keep the tin they mine until they are able to get a processing centre to add value and be able to…

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Unleashing ASM potential

Despite being central to Uganda’s mining industry, Artisanal and Small Scale Mining (ASM) in Uganda has for years been neglected by authorities. Until recently, the ASM sub-sector was not even duly…

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UGAASM Chairman

ASM can develop the mining sector if properly managed

Please tell us your name and your position in the association? I am Bukya John Bosco, the chairperson of the Uganda Association of Artisanal and Small Scale Miners (UGAASM), and also the chairperson…

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President Omar Bashir

International mining forum opens in Sudan

The Fourth Annual Sudan International Mining Forum and Exhibition opened on Monday in capital Khartoum, with more than 40 countries in participation. “This forum is convened under very complicated…

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oil refining

Supporting the Participation of Ugandan Entities in the Development of the Country’s Oil and Gas Industry

In June 2018, Cabinet passed the local content policy for the oil and gas industry of Uganda. The petroleum resources in Uganda are now estimated at over 6.5 billion barrels of oil, of which 1.4…

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Stone quarrying

A Snapshot of the Mechanized Stone Quarrying Industry in Uganda

I have had the opportunity of reading the Baseline Assessment of Development Minerals in Uganda Volume I and The Baseline Assessment of Development Minerals in Uganda Volume II (Markets study and…

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EA Project

East Africa walking a tight rope

This past August, I was fortunate to be part of a regional discussion on East Africa’s budding extractives sector that was convened by Oxfam in Nairobi, Kenya. The event’s timing and scope stemmed…

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cheap gold

Travel Alert: Uganda Is Not a Cheap Gold Supermarket

As Uganda continues to grapple with the trajectory direction of its mining sector, the world’s fortune hunters are busy looking for cheap gold in the pearl of Africa. The last three years have seen a…

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