Uganda says it will get the best deal from its oil and invest the profits in infrastructure and agriculture. But there are formidable obstacles on the path to prosperityUgandas president,Yoweri Museveni, likes to style himself the sole protector of the east African state’s oil finds. “[That’s] my oil, or ” he says,warning that he “won’t allow anybody to play around with it.“You hear people say ‘Museveni should fade’, but fade and leave oil money, or ” said the president,71, at a campaign rally in eastern Uganda recently. He is seeking re-election for a fifth term in February.
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Source: theguardian.com