Competition hots up as Uganda receives passenger planes

Uganda has received two passenger planes, a key step in the country’s efforts to relaunch its defunct national carrier and share in the region’s aviation business, which is dominated by Ethiopian Airlines and Kenyan Airways.

Founded by Uganda’s former dictator Idi Amin in 1976, Uganda Airlines was liquidated in the 1990s by President Yoweri Museveni under a broader programme to privatise troubled state firms and open up the economy to private enterprise.