Daily Monitor
Wednesday February 24 2021
EAC countries including Kenya and Tanzania continue to lock out Uganda’s sugar out of their markets without proper explanation. PHOTO |FILE
Summary
Government, according to Ministry of Trade, will present its case before the East African Summit.
In 2019, Tanzania blocked Uganda’s sugar from entering its market only to allow 20,000 tonnes in 2020 but that was also stopped.
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Government, according to Ministry of Trade, will present its case before the East African Summit.
The summit, which involves a number of hybrid meetings, is ongoing and will climax with the Heads of States meeting.
Mr Emmanuel Mutahunga, the Ministry of Trade commissioner external trade, yesterday told Daily Monitor, government had been engaging and will continue to engage member states to solve the trade wars, with a further push expected during the during the ongoing summit.
Daily Monitor
Saturday January 23 2021
Rwanda, Kenya and Tanzania have all, for at least two years, blocked Uganda’s sugar from entering their markets. PHOTO/FILE.
Summary
Tanzania, Kenya and Rwanda have all blocked sugar exports from Uganda, worsening stockpiles.
According to media reports, Uganda Manufacturers Association (UMA), said Uganda had more sugar than what actually Kenya intends to import.
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Sugar exports have dropped by Shs108b, representing a 35 per cent decline in earnings in the last three years, according to data from Bank of Uganda.
The decline, data indicates, could have been occasioned by export blockades placed on Uganda’s sugar by East Africa member states on claims of dumping.
Daily Monitor
Monday January 18 2021
Sugarcane trucks park at Kakira Sugar works Ltd parking yard on April 15, 2020. In Busoga, Mr Museveni got 404,862 votes, while Mr Kyagulanyi received 437,059 votes. PHOTO /FILE.
Summary
Some residents attribute Mr Museveni’s defeat to his failure to address the chronic poverty, especially the low prices for sugarcane.
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The January 14 presidential elections produced some of the biggest surprises for President Museveni and his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party in the last 25 years.
For the first time since his elective terms started in 1996, President Museveni last Thursday lost his traditional strongholds of Buganda and Busoga sub-regions to the Opposition.