Entebbe, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | The Uganda Printing and Publishing Corporation is moving to capture a slice of the digital economy, pivoting its state-run print school toward high-demand technical skills to help solve the country’s youth unemployment crisis. The UPPC Print School, long an anchor of the industrial printing …
Read More »African Leagues Launch Gives Continental Football a Betting-Worthy Shake-Up
Something happened on March 28 that most football fans missed entirely. Eight professional leagues from across the continent sat down, signed a Declaration of Principles, and created a body called African Leagues. It sits under the World Leagues Association. The Ugandan top flight signed on as a founding member. Anybody …
Read More »A Farmer’s Turning Point: Olobo’s story with dfcu Bank and the Best Farmers Awards
Lira, Uganda | NEWS FEATURE | For over six decades, dfcu Bank has supported Ugandans to build businesses, with agriculture remaining at the heart of that journey. Through financing, partnerships, and platforms that recognise and uplift farmers, the Bank continues to play a role in helping agriculture move from subsistence …
Read More »The geography of power and the price of ignorance
COMMENT | ANDREW PI BESI | When commenting on the 1980–1988 Iraq–Iran war, Henry Kissinger once remarked that it was “a pity both sides can’t lose”. It was a chilling distillation of a worldview in which distant conflicts are not tragedies to be resolved, but instruments to be managed. Alongside Zbigniew …
Read More »NRM-O retreat at Kyankwanzi amid America’s renewed geopolitical contest for the moon
From Kyankwanzi to the Moon and beyond: Another case for Regional Integration and Shared Ambition COMMENT | ANDREW PI BESI | Sometime in 2023, I found myself on a panel at the Kampala Geopolitics Conference, convened by the French Embassy and Konrad Adenauer Stiftung–Uganda in partnership with Makerere University. …
Read More »Government bans 500 pornography sites
Kampala, Uganda | URN | The government’s Pornograpy Control Committee has raised concern over the increasing exposure of children to online sexual exploitation and harmful digital content. Speaking to journalists at the government-owned media centre, Annet Kezabu, the Chairperson of the Pornography Control Committee, said they have discovered that children …
Read More »Millions in Uganda trapped in poverty beyond pay
According to the MPI, 27 per cent of Ugandans (Approx.12.2 million) are classified as multidimensionally poor, with stark regional disparities Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Uganda’s progress in reducing income poverty is masking a more complex reality, as new data shows millions of citizens still face significant deprivation …
Read More »‘Businesses Could Not Drift’: Molly Katanga outlines stewardship of family empire
Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | The trial of Molly Katanga took a corporate turn in the High Court yesterday, as prosecutors shifted their focus from forensic evidence to the financial operations of the business empire she co-founded with her late husband, Henry Katanga. In a session dominated by balance …
Read More »Uganda spends beyond its means to keep growth alive
Finance ministry figures released on April 9 show fourth-quarter disbursements of Shs17.444tn, lifting total releases to Shs77.001tn—106.4% of the approved budget and 95.1% of the revised plan Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | The government has released more funds than initially approved for the current financial year ending …
Read More »New tax proposals could hit the poor and small firms
Mobile money operators also highlighted the effect of digital transaction taxes on usage, noting that higher costs are already prompting some consumers to revert to cash Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | Uganda’s proposed tax measures for the 2026/27 financial year have drawn criticism from civil society groups, …
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