{"id":37999,"date":"2018-10-23T16:49:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T13:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kfm.co.ug\/?p=37999"},"modified":"2018-10-23T16:49:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-23T13:49:01","slug":"museveni-commissions-620million-uganda-china-free-zone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/museveni-commissions-620million-uganda-china-free-zone\/","title":{"rendered":"Museveni commissions $620million Uganda-China Free Zone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Benjamin Jumbe.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Museveni has commissioned the Phase 1 of the Uganda-China (Guangdong) Free Zone of Industrial Cooperation.<\/p>\n<p>The event is to take place at the Sukulu Phosphate Comprehensive Industrial Development Project in Tororo.<\/p>\n<p>Uganda Free Zones Authority (UFZA) and a Chinese firm, Guangzhou DongSong Energy Group Company Limited recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a Free Trade Zone in Sukulu, Tororo District.<\/p>\n<p>The Authority\u2019s executive director Richard Jabo said the Agreement was important for Uganda, not only as a vehicle for technology transfer and knowledge spill-overs but also in manufacturing, and adding value to the country\u2019s raw materials and increasing exports from Uganda.<\/p>\n<p>He said the facility when fully operational will provide jobs to many Ugandans and improve on the export of value-added products.<\/p>\n<p>The Sukulu Phosphate Comprehensive Industrial Development Project is expected to create 2,000 direct jobs at the first phase<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Benjamin Jumbe. President Museveni has commissioned the Phase 1 of the Uganda-China (Guangdong) Free Zone of Industrial Cooperation. The event is to take place at the Sukulu Phosphate Comprehensive Industrial Development Project in Tororo. Uganda Free Zones Authority (UFZA) and a Chinese firm, Guangzhou DongSong Energy Group Company Limited recently signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to develop a Free Trade Zone in Sukulu, Tororo District. The Authority\u2019s executive director Richard Jabo said the Agreement was important for Uganda, not only as a vehicle for technology transfer and knowledge spill-overs but also in manufacturing, and adding value to the country\u2019s raw materials and increasing exports from Uganda. He said the facility when fully operational will provide jobs to many [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":38008,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","filesize_raw":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,134,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-national-news-news","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37999"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37999"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37999\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kfm.dembefm.ug\/staging_h\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}