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Financial Crisis Creates Panic At Uganda's central Bank
Mar 28 2009, John

Uganda’s central bank whose governor has been always quoted saying that the nation would not be affected by the global financial crisis, is finally feeling the pinch of the global financial crisis. The bank has bought up much of the remaining dollars...

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