President Museveni has downplayed the decision by the United States to scrap Uganda off the list of beneficiaries accessing the American market under the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA).
In a statement on Sunday evening, the president advised Ugandans not to be over concerned by the actions of the US in removing the country off the list of AGOA beneficiaries.
Last week, US President, Joe Biden announced that he was cutting Uganda, Central African Republic , Gabon and Niger from the AGOA beneficiaries from January 2024. He insisted that all these actions by the West can be described as an act of being arrogant and looking down upon others that he said ought to be rejected by Africans.
He added,"In 1964, Frelimo launched the Armed struggle against the Portuguese army in Mozambique, joining the MPLA that had launched an uprising earlier. By 1994, the whole of Africa had been liberated by the force of the Africans supported by the socialist countries of the Soviet Union, China, Cuba, etc."" Uganda, under the NRM, is and will succeed, regardless of what some of the external actors and internal detractors do.
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