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The Kenyans then cut off all directdial telephone communications to Uganda, claiming that the lines were needed elsewhere. Uganda retaliated by halting the flow of electricity to some parts of Kenya. (Uganda's giant hydroelectric power station at Jinja, on the Nile, supplies up to 10 percent of...

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Published inNewsday
Main Author By Marilyn Achiron. Newsday Special Correspondent
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Long Island, N.Y Newsday LLC 19.06.1987
EditionCombined editions
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Museveni, Yoweri
Libya
Nairobi, Kenya
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Summary:The Kenyans then cut off all directdial telephone communications to Uganda, claiming that the lines were needed elsewhere. Uganda retaliated by halting the flow of electricity to some parts of Kenya. (Uganda's giant hydroelectric power station at Jinja, on the Nile, supplies up to 10 percent of Kenya's electricity.) Ugandan officials denied allegations that Uganda was trying to destabilize Kenya and countercharged that Kenya had stationed troops at the border. Arap Moi later asserted that the Kenya-Uganda border was "as open as the road to Damascus." Still, arap Moi keeps a close watch on his neighbor to the west. Sources in Kampala, Uganda's capital, describe relations between Uganda and Libya as "cordial and correct." The two countries signed an agreement in March to exchange desperately needed Libyan oil products for Ugandan agricultural goods. And [Yoweri Museveni], whose radical politics chafe against arap Moi's conservatism, is now even more beholden to Gadhafi. Diplomatic sources in Kampala confirm that Libya has supplied Museveni with two aging Italian-built warplanes to help him fight a growing insurgency movement in northern Uganda.