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Uganda says 2023/24 GDP growth to reach 6%

Published 05/30/2023, 08:05 AM
Updated 05/30/2023, 08:11 AM
© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Ugandan business people are seen at a market with their merchandises for sale at Mpondwe border that separates Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Mpondwe, Uganda, June 14, 2019. REUTERS/James Akena/File Photo

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Ugandan business people are seen at a market with their merchandises for sale at Mpondwe border that separates Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Mpondwe, Uganda, June 14, 2019. REUTERS/James Akena/File Photo

KAMPALA (Reuters) - Uganda's economy will expand by 6% in the next fiscal year that starts in July, an increase from a projected growth of 5.5% this year, boosted by petroleum industry-related investments, the finance ministry said on Tuesday.

Ramathan Ggoobi, the finance ministry's top technocrat, said in a statement that in the 2023/24 (July-June) fiscal year, economic growth was projected to reach 6% and average 7% over the medium term.

Uganda and international oil firms like France's TotalEnergies, and China's CNOOC (NYSE:CEO) are implementing multi-billion dollar projects including oilfield facilities, a crude pipeline, an airport and a refinery.

Commercial oil production is projected to take off in 2025.

Ggoobi said Uganda's GDP would by the end of the next fiscal year expand by up to 206.54 trillion Ugandan shillings ($55.30 billion).

This month, lawmakers approved the government's plan to raise spending by 10% to 52.73 trillion shillings in the 2023/24 fiscal year.

Ggoobi added that spending priorities would include the oil and gas sector and construction of the Standard Gauge Railway (SGR).

© Reuters. FILE PHOTO: Ugandan business people are seen at a market with their merchandises for sale at Mpondwe border that separates Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, in Mpondwe, Uganda, June 14, 2019. REUTERS/James Akena/File Photo

The east African country has said it plans to hand a $2.2 billion contract to construct a 273 kilometre SGR line to Turkish firm Yapi Merkezi and that construction would start this year.

($1 = 3,735.0000 Ugandan shillings)

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