Jul 12

Not many people today know that Uganda has a below sub-mediocre, semi-functioning train service, run by the Uganda Railways Corporation (URC). You can’t blame them, URC is really very thin on the ground. A scary skeleton of what it was. If yo...

Jul 12

Western acknowledgement of the reality of China’s military presence in Cambodia highlights the ease with which such facilities can be established in the absence of strong, democratically accountable institutions. The agreement to allow the Ch...

Jul 10

The consortium of Sogea-Satom (VINCI Construction) and ETF (Eurovia)—the contractor hired to rehabilitate the old metre gauge railway (MGR) northern line from Tororo to Gulu—is threatening to terminate works, citing inconsistencies in payment. ...