Tag Archives: exports

Mukono, Uganda | URN | Health workers have welcomed the launch of Uganda’s first local manufacturing facility for ‘OraQuick’ HIV self-test kits, saying it will significantly increase the number of people who know their HIV status and help the country meet its goal of ending the AIDS epidemic by 2030. …

    Otuke, Uganda | URN | The Okere Shea Cooperative Society Limited in Otuke District has more than doubled its exports of processed Nilotica shea butter to the United States, shipping 23 metric tonnes compared with nine tonnes in the previous year. A 40-foot container carrying the consignment was …

BEIJING | Xinhua |  China’s foreign trade maintained sound momentum in the first three quarters of 2026, with both exports and imports growing rapidly and the overall growth rate reaching its highest level for the same period in five years, official data showed Wednesday. The country’s total imports and exports …

  The strongest protection is not just raising interest rates or special windows for dollars. It is building an economy that sells more than it buys from the rest of the world    COMMENT | MORRISON RWAKAKAMBA | In simple words, Uganda needs to earn more dollars than it spends, year …

  Kampala, Uganda | URN | Uganda earns about 1.6 billion US dollars annually from Ugandans working abroad, making labour exports an important source of foreign exchange alongside tourism, remittances and merchandise exports. Bank of Uganda Deputy Governor Professor Augustus Nuwagaba says about 900 million dollars of the earnings come …

Kampala, Uganda | Xinhua | Uganda has appointed global energy and commodities trader Vitol to market the country’s crude oil allocation ahead of planned exports early next year, the Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC) said Monday. According to a statement issued by UNOC, Vitol will market the crude oil allocation …

  Museveni names Uganda’s crude oil Pearl Sweet ahead of first exports   Hoima, Uganda | NEWS CORRESPONDENT | Uganda has named its crude oil Pearl Sweet, giving the grade a commercial identity so it can be priced, marketed and sold to international refiners as the country moves to within …

  The latest phase builds on previous rounds of implementation in 2023 and 2025, which trained plant health officials from 20 African countries   NEWS ANALYSIS | THE INDEPENDENT | African governments are scaling up efforts to modernise plant health systems, expanding a digital surveillance programme to 38 countries in …

  Kampala, Uganda | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | Uganda’s first commercial export of canned pineapple to China is being presented as more than a ceremonial trade breakthrough. Government officials, investors, and development agencies say the shipment reflects a wider attempt to reposition Uganda from an exporter of raw agricultural commodities to …

  ACCRA | Xinhua |  A Ghanaian exporter has said that his company is preparing to capitalize on opportunities in the Chinese market following China’s expansion of zero-tariff treatment to all African countries that have diplomatic relations with it, effective May 1. Daniel Kombat, chief executive officer of Danikom Ghana …