NEWS ANALYSIS | URN | Uganda’s National Social Security Fund has been on an investment spree in recent years, but its decision to stay away from the Kenya Pipeline Company Initial Public Offer tells a lot. In recent years it has acquired significant stakes in large companies like MTN Uganda, Airtel …
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Why is energy critical to a country? SPECIAL FEATURE | NNANDA KIZITO SSERUWAGI | Energy is one of the most important utilities that enable the functioning of modern life. Without it, most aspects of our day-to-day lives would grind to a halt. You can link a country’s energy …
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NEWS ANALYSIS | URN | As the country braces for an El Niño-influenced rainy season expected to bring above-normal rainfall and heightened flood risks in parts of the country, a new government-led roadmap is proposing a fundamental shift in disaster management, acting on forecasts before communities are hit. Uganda Radio …
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The professionals who help move, hide and legitimise Uganda’s dirty money Kampala, Uganda | IAN KATUSIIME | Uganda could be losing more than Shs2 trillion a year to illicit financial flows (IFFs), with trade misinvoicing alone estimated to have created a $6.6 billion gap between what Uganda reported …
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As late as the early nineties, railway waggons could be rolled onto ferries and carried across Lake Victoria to Mwanza in Tanzania and Kisumu in Kenya, where cargo rejoined the railway systems leading to Dar es Salaam and Mombasa. The lake was, in effect, part of Uganda’s railway Kampala, …
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The race, the rangers and the cost of protecting Uganda’s wild places SPECIAL REPORT | RONALD MUSOKE | At around six o’clock on the morning of September 19, as the first orange light of the sun began to spread across the savannah in the northern sector of Murchison Falls …
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Beneficiaries should be able to evaluate NPO performance and influence service delivery SPECIAL REPORT | WAYNE VAN ZIJL | Imagine being asked to prepare monthly reports that all demand their own classifications, measurement bases and templates. This is the reality that nonprofit organisations (NPOs) face across the world. …
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SPECIAL FEATURE | THE INDEPENDENT | For a teacher putting aside part of a monthly salary, a young professional making the first serious savings of their career, a couple building a business or a group of friends contributing to an investment club, wealth can feel like something that …
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The pension fund has declared an interest rate of 22.53 percent for the financial year 2025/26, translating into Sh5.44 trillion Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s biggest pool of long-term domestic savings has delivered its strongest return yet, putting the National Social Security Fund at the …
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The succession has exposed the uneasy meeting of tradition, family and modern law COVER STORY | THE INDEPENDENT | The royal palace in Fort Portal is preparing to receive a new occupant. At Karuziika Palace, preparations are under way for the installation of Prince Edward Rukidi Kijanangoma …
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The Independent Uganda: You get the Truth we Pay the Price
