The sub-sector continue to grapple with high production costs, limited access to long-term capital, dependence on imported inputs and fragmented supply chains Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s manufacturers are calling for deeper collaboration across supply chains, innovative financing mechanisms and greater investment in value addition as …
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24 Boys Step into the Shoes of Absa Senior Executives for a Day Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | Twenty-four secondary school students from across Uganda have spent a day shadowing senior leaders at Absa Bank Uganda as part of a mentorship initiative aimed at exposing young people to …
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Geneva, Switzerland | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | Uganda has called for a people-centred approach to technological transformation, urging that artificial intelligence and innovation must support workers, expand decent employment and strengthen national productivity. The intervention came as the 114th International Labour Conference placed renewed attention on the future of work, including …
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Kampala, Uganda | URN | Members of District Service Commissions account for nearly a third of all bribe solicitations in local government recruitment, the Inspectorate of Government (IGG) has found. The finding is contained in a 2018–2022 survey that tracked corruption patterns in district-level hiring, with bribes reportedly ranging from UGX …
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Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | For many young Ugandans, education is more than a pursuit of academic success. It is a bridge to opportunity, leadership, and transformation. For Fatmah Yusuf Gram, a young scholar from Fort Portal, that bridge became clearer through the Equity Leaders Program (ELP), a flagship initiative …
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Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | By the time many people retire, they begin winding down. Not Rachel Kabala. Energetic and purposeful, Kabala is the kind of person who seems to have replaced the word “retirement” with “reinvention”. A retired corporate executive, she now runs a law firm in Wakiso, works …
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COMMENT | BOUBAKER BEN-BELHASSEN | The tea in your cup began its journey in someone else’s hands. Hands whose work most of us never think about. Almost certainly, those hands belonged to a smallholder farmer tending a small plot of land, plucking leaves by hand beneath …
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Kampala, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | Reach A Hand has launched the latest edition of “Beyond the Canvas” with a renowned global motivational speaker, Nick Vujicic, headlining the unveiling at Reach A Hand, Africa Headquarters in Kampala, Lungujja on May 18, 2026. Now in its 3rd edition, running under the …
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The Silent Danger Destroying Potential COMMENT | MARY S NASSALI | Coaching has become essential for personal growth, leadership development, and professional success. In a fast-changing world, talent and ambition are not enough. Many people carry great potential but remain stuck because they lack clarity, confidence, accountability, and …
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While AI doesn’t eliminate role of human capital in performance, research shows it eases execution constraints, especially for the less-educated COMMENT | MARIA LOMBARDI | Recent AI advances have created widespread expectations of substantial productivity gains. Early studies, such as one showing that AI increased the productivity of customer-support agents …
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