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India offers Uganda credit to boost energy, agriculture

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni

India has offered Uganda a total $205 million worth of credit to help the East African country expand its electricity distribution infrastructure and invest in its agriculture sector, which employs majority of its workforce.

A statement issued in Kampala where India’s prime minister Narendra Modi started a two-day visit on Tuesday, said Modi and his host President Yoweri Museveni also discussed reform of the U.N. security council.

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