NEWS ANALYSIS

    The programme is valued at about Shs2.8bn grant from the French Embassy and Shs400bn co-financing from Stanbic Bank Uganda   Kampala, Uganda | JULIUS BUSINGE | France is expanding support for Uganda’s women and youth-led green businesses, moving beyond project funding towards a longer-term pipeline intended to connect …

  Dangote IPO will test whether African capital markets are ready to finance Africa’s next generation of industrial giants   SPECIAL REPORT | BIRD AGENCY |  Dangote’s US$1.6 billion (₦2.15 trillion) refinery IPO is turning one of Africa’s biggest industrial projects into a publicly investable asset, drawing retail and institutional …

    From Abstract Matrices to Nagongera: How a Ugandan scholar’s ‘Neocomplexity’ is building real-world bridges   SPECIAL FEATURE | THE INDEPENDENT | On an ordinary day in Nagongera, Tororo District, a gathering of local residents, elders, and visiting researchers exchange ideas, their voices harmonizing over the blueprints of a …

  About 70% to 80% of medicines consumed in Africa are imported, according to the Access to Medicine Foundation   ANALYSIS | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA |  Africa is pouring money into pharmaceutical manufacturing as governments seek to reduce dependence on imported medicines. The bigger challenge may be finding enough buyers to keep …

  SPECIAL FEATURE | THE INDEPENDENT |  Brenda Zalwango ranks among the most prominent and widely recognised digital personalities in Uganda today, with a public profile that very few Ugandan creators can match in either scale or breadth. Where most social media figures build a single identity — as a …

  SPECIAL FEATURE | THE INDEPENDENT | Her name is Alma Daizy Namunswa. Online, she is known as Mummy Gadgets What began in the boot of her car during Uganda’s COVID-19 lockdown has grown into Mummy Gadgets, a Kampala-based retail brand. Her journey mirrors the wider transformation of Uganda’s retail …

  Why the man behind the restaurant has become part of the story   FEATURE | THE INDEPENDENT | Chef Mutebi Amiri is known publicly through several identities at once. He is a restaurateur, a chef, a businessman, a former entertainment promoter and a digital personality. He is also associated …

    The East African nation is trying to build alternative fuel routes rather than depend on a single route   NEWS ANALYSIS | JULIUS BUSINGE |  Uganda’s oil story has, for more than a decade, been told from the shores of Lake Albert.  That is where the country’s biggest …

    East African airlines are using algorithms to make pricing decisions leaving a question: when the price on the screen changes, how much of that decision belongs to a human revenue manager and how much belongs to a machine?   NEWS ANALYSIS | IAN KATUSIIME | At midday on …

  SPECIAL REPORT | Uganda is betting that replacing the Tax Identification Number (TIN) with the National Identification Number (NIN) will widen the tax base and curb leakage. But with millions already registered for tax, the harder test is whether better identification can actually translate into more revenue, reports Ronald …