The Uganda Revenue Authority has reportedly suspended clearing agents’ operations at the Malaba border over their failure to renew their annual licenses.

Reports say the suspension has led to build-up of trucks, with fears that the traffic jam could extend several miles into Kenya. The move is hurting transporters and importers because their goods cannot be cleared. This has caused a delay in delivering goods to their intended destinations.

Uganda's sources of foreign exchange are drying up on nearly every front, posing a significant risk to the country's balance of payments position, said Dickson Magecha, Forex Trader at Standard Chartered Bank in a statement.

Healthy public debate, building consensus, winning trust will determine if oil is a blessing or a curse

As the year came to a close, the acrimonious debate over Uganda’s nascent oil industry did not appear to show any sign of abetting. President Yoweri Museveni’s tongue lashing against some MPs, NGOs, and “some agents of foreign interests” whom he accused of trying to derail the oil production programme in the country, capped a tumultuous and eventful year for the oil sector.

Undoubtedly, the rancor particularly between civil society organizations and Parliament on one hand and President Museveni and the executive on the other, is expected to be extended into the New Year. The one unfortunate failing in the whole oil debate over the year was that of each side taking extreme positions at the expense of building consensus.

Lack of legal framework, poor technology leave stakeholders frustrated as digital migration delays

When Moses moved into his new house deep in Mukono two months ago, he did not know that watching TV in his new home would become a nightmare for his young family. To his utter frustration, he tried everything to pick the TV signals to no avail.  The signals of his favourite TV stations kept playing ‘hide and seek’ until he decided to get connected onto GO TV – a digital TV service provider. However, on installing it, he realized that it was not relaying his favourite TV stations – TOP TV, Lighthouse TV, NBS and Star TV.