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How Museveni's ‘new’ Uganda is eating once-forbidden fruit of liberalisation

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni. Uganda is in the midst of what seems to be a new wave of re-nationalisation, which could see companies that are cross-listed across East African exchanges, swallowed back by the state. PHOTO | COURTESY

By  Charles Onyango-Obbo

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Uganda is in the midst of what seems to be a new wave of re-nationalisation, which could see companies that are cross-listed across East African exchanges, swallowed back by the state.

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