Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni says to revive national airline

Uganda’s president Yoweri Museveni said Wednesday the East African country would revive its defunct national carrier to share in the region’s growing aviation business and invigorate its services sector. Founded by Uganda’s former dictator Idi Amin in 1976, Uganda Airlines was liquidated in the 1990s by Museveni’s govt under a broader program to privatise troubled state firms and open up the economy to private enterprise. In a speech to parliament, Museveni said he was now reviving the airline “to invigorate our services sector.” He did not say from which manufacturer the planes had been ordered but transport and works minister has previously told local media they had ordered the planes from Bombardier. <br/>