“The best way is to build factories in Uganda to process agricultural products from our Ugandan farmers. Let the people here produce, and your companies process,” Museveni said.

Sweden’s Ambassador to Uganda, H.E. Anna-Maria Olsson, celebrated the decade-long partnership between Uganda and Sweden in developing critical electricity transmission infrastructure.

Hosein brings experience from the technology sector, having been among the early engineers at EMC Corporation, where he contributed to the development of data-storage infrastructure that supported the global information economy. EMC grew into a major technology company with more than 55,000 employees worldwide before becoming part of Dell Technologies in 2016.

“After discussing the proposal to establish Busoga University as a public university, Cabinet decided to name it Iganga University,” Lumumba said.

Kabalega International Airport also called Hoima International Airport is Uganda’s second international airport after Entebbe. Its construction began in 2018 as part of infrastructure for the oil industry in the Albertine Graben, the planned Uganda Oil Refinery, and the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP). It is also intended to support tourism and agriculture in western Uganda.

The President also revisited his recent remarks about Uganda’s petroleum imports, saying some Kenyan media outlets had misrepresented what he said while presiding over the laying of the foundation stone for a 320-million-litre oil storage facility at Buyala.

This approach is geared towards ensuring the highest privacy-preserving safeguards. Social media services and video-sharing platforms will also be required to perform age verification when a new account is created. For existing accounts, providers must estimate the user’s age based on reasonable proxies, such as account creation dates and credit card details.