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Features Editors: Paris: Kate Millar +33 1 4041 4636 Hong Kong: Liz Thomas +852 2829 6211 Twitter: @AFPfeature We are offering the following item: + Delays and shattered hopes: Uganda still waiting for oil riches Uganda-economy-oil-France-environment,FEATURE BULIISA, Uganda It was the promise of oil -- billions of barrels of black gold, discovered locked beneath Lake Albert -- and the riches to follow that brought electricity to Buliisa. But 14 years after the discovery of sub-Saharan Africa's fourth-largest oil reserves, not a drop has been extracted. 1,000 words by Cyril Belaud. Pictures by Yasuyoshi Chiba. Video by Tina Smole afp
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