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Article: Key to African Development Depends on Trade: Ugandan President
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- Xinhua News Agency
- Article date:
- August 12, 2001
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Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said here on Sunday that the
only channel to develop the African continent on a sustainable basis
is trade, not aid, according to a press release from the President's
Office.
During a meeting with a visiting Kenyan group of over 30
entrepreneurs at the State House in the capital Kampala, Museveni
said that Uganda is blessed with a lot of natural resources. The
country has 40 million acres of arable land but only 8 million outof
it is under utilization though not efficiently.
In spite of the non-intensified utilization of the ...