Africa: Museveni Asks EU to Help Africa Process Raw Materials and Create Jobs

Africa: Museveni Asks EU to Help Africa Process Raw Materials and Create Jobs

President Museveni has urged European countries to support Africa in processing its raw materials into finished products, saying value addition would create jobs, increase export earnings and strengthen trade between the two continents.

Museveni Urges EU to Support Africa’s Value Addition & Promote Global Prosperity

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has urged the European Union (EU) to support Africa’s industrialisation by investing in the processing of raw materials on the continent, arguing that value addition would create jobs, increase export earnings and expand markets for European goods. Museveni said Europe should pursue a partnership with Africa based on mutually beneficial trade […]

President Museveni urges EU to back Africa’s value addition and promote global prosperity

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has urged the European Union (EU) to support Africa’s industrialisation by investing in local processing of raw materials, creating jobs and promoting shared global prosperity rather than what he described as “parasitism” — a system in which some countries prosper at the expense of others. The President said Europe has an […]