By Apollo Buregyeya Uganda and much of sub-Saharan Africa face a skills crisis that is widely misdiagnosed. Conventional wisdom blames the education system – underfunded schools,...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Most African nations inherited their juridical sovereignty from colonial administrations that dominated the continent from the mid-19th century. Their borders – drawn...
By Des H Rikhotso Ugandan students have engineered portable solar-powered tents that collapse into backpacks, offering homeless populations and displaced communities a dignified solution to one...
By Dishant Shah At first glance, the map appears to be nothing more than a transport plan: rail lines threading through the continent, ports dotting the...
By Des H Rikhotso A state-designed electric bus does not typically make international headlines. Yet, the recent arrival of Uganda’s Kayoola Electric Coach in Cape Town,...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Strategically located at the crossroads of these regions, Uganda plays an indispensable role in maintaining regional stability. Despite being landlocked, Uganda connects...
By John Kourkoutas Being landlocked presents both challenges and opportunities. This compelling map from Voronoi App illustrates the 45 landlocked countries globally, including 16 in Africa,...
A private equity firm backed by Africa’s richest man, Aliko Dangote, is set to acquire Java House, a leading East African coffee chain. Mauritius-based Alterra Capital,...
By Mary Alorh African nations and other emerging economies are increasingly aligning with the BRICS bloc, recognizing its potential as a key driver of global economic...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu When the late leader of Iran decided to tour Africa in mid-2023, he chose to visit states in East and Southern Africa....
AP | Nigeria has been admitted as a “partner country” of the BRICS bloc of developing economies, according to Brazil, the group’s chair. BRICS was formed...
Late last week, Uganda launched a significant US$3 billion Standard Gauge Railway (SGR) project that will connect the country to the Kenyan border, with the potential...
Reuters | Uganda has formed a state-owned mining company to manage the government’s equity interests in mining operations, its minister for energy and mineral development, Ruth...
Nigeria, Africa’s most populous nation, is set to begin importing milk and coffee from Uganda, marking a significant step forward for intra-African trade. This development follows...
Reuters | The start of commercial crude oil production in Uganda is expected to propel economic growth into double digits in the next financial year, the...
The vision of Africa’s founding fathers to unite the continent in shared prosperity is coming to fruition as Nigeria prepares to launch Preferential Trade under the...
Bloomberg | Uganda plans domestic gold purchases to build foreign exchange reserves and limit risks on reserve investments, becoming the latest African nation to turn to...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In 2022, the Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo), the second-largest and fourth-most populous country in Africa, joined the East African Community...
By NJ Ayuk When the US$3.5 billion East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) is completed, it will mark a significant milestone. The 24-inch, 1,443-kilometer (896-mile) pipeline...
By Gregory Simpkins The South China Morning Post reported on March 29, 2024 that by 2050, it is projected that only a quarter of countries in...
Uganda, recognized for its investment prowess, clinched the prestigious title of ‘Best Investment Destination in Africa’ in 2024, as announced by the Investment Authority. Evelyne Anite,...
In a bid to ramp up tourism revenue, Kenya and Uganda have joined forces to fuse their rich cultural tapestries. These East African nations are eyeing...
Bloomberg | Uganda is seeking approval from lawmakers to raise 1.1 trillion shillings (US$289 million) of additional budgetary funds in part to help a local drug...
Uganda is poised to inaugurate its inaugural tin refining facility in the southwest region, marking a significant stride in bolstering capacity and advancing mineral value within...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu After decades of severe drought and concomitant famine and socio-economic challenges in the Horn of Africa, the Intergovernmental Authority on Drought and...
By Micah Lucy Abigaba Uganda entered into agreements in 2012 with two foreign oil entities to exploit its oil resources. Total Energies holds 56.67 percent of...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu Integration in Africa was one of the pressing topics in the 1950s and 1960s. At a point, disagreement over how to achieve...
By Fidel Amakye Owusu In the 1950s, Ghana’s first prime minister and president, Kwame Nkrumah, was clear about what the newly independent state needed – a...
By Chinedu Okafor According to Uganda’s finance ministry, the nation’s yearly and monthly trade deficits with the rest of the world have decreased as a result...
Reuters | Telecom firm MTN Uganda, a unit of South Africa’s MTN Group, on Friday launched the first 5G network in the east African country. MTN...
By Caroline Kimeu When Ugandans Maureen Agena and Edward Echwalu arrived at the Lesotho border during their five-month road trip across east and southern Africa, the...
By Morgan J. Robinson Kiswahili originated in east Africa, spreading around the continent and the globe. It’s been adopted as a working language at the African...
Bloomberg | Of all the countries in sub-Saharan Africa to be optimistic about, the most promising is Kenya. Economic and political forces are converging to put...
By Gregory Simpkins All too often, the international media and even those considered to be Africa experts focus on the crises that are evident in African...
Energy Capital & Power| The meetings saw Mohamed bin Twar discuss investment opportunities between Qatar and Uganda with Minister Abu Bakr that will serve to encourage Qatari...
By Chinedu Okafor The Ugandan government said on Thursday that it plans to generate at least 1000 megawatts (MW) from nuclear power by 2031 as part...
A decision to set up the East African Monetary Institute (EAMI) – the Central Bank of East Africa – will be made this year, a key...
AFP | Uganda said on Monday it was expected to declare an end to an Ebola virus outbreak that emerged late last year and has claimed...
Reuters | Uganda has discharged its last known Ebola patient from hospital, a senior health official said on Friday, raising hopes that an outbreak which has...
HiPipo, a Ugandan fintech firm, has been among the world’s Top 20 companies escalating innovation in the digital financial services market by the Global Business Leaders...
Bloomberg | Africa’s annual exports are expected to double to US$540 billion by 2030 from a decade earlier, chiefly on shipments from Nigeria to the Asian...
Bloomberg | Uganda plans to identify potential partners in the coming year to develop East Africa’s first nuclear power plant, which may cost as much as...
Bloomberg | Two vaccines being developed to treat the type of Ebola that’s killed 29 people in Uganda may start clinical trials in the coming weeks,...
Reuters | U.N. children’s agency UNICEF on Thursday named Vanessa Nakate, a 25-year-old Ugandan climate activist, goodwill ambassador. Inspired by Sweden’s Greta Thunberg, Nakate began her...
Bloomberg | A Nigerian startup backed by private-equity firm Lightrock LLP is looking to deploy electric vehicles in about 8 African countries by next year as...
By Gregory Simpkins As the world rightly focuses on the Ukraine-Russia conflict, which has inflicted such misery on other countries, there is a growing conflict that...
By Gregory Simpkins On April 23, 2021, U.S. Secretary of State Anthony Blinken proudly announced the appointment of Jeffrey Feltman as the U.S. Special Envoy for...
Reuters | Uganda has revealed that recent exploration surveys have shown it has gold ore deposits of about 31 million tons and it wants to attract...
Reuters | Ugandan film producer Raymond Malinga, whose work will feature in an upcoming Disney anthology of animated films from across Africa, hopes the project will...
By Wanjohi Kabukuru | The Associated Press AP | From wind farms across the African coastline to geothermal projects in the east African rift valley, a...
Press Release | Russom Woldemichael, owner and founder of shoe and leather goods company Barcon Getta, knows that a journey of a thousand miles begins with...
Bloomberg | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) joined the East African Community (EAC), bringing the regional trading bloc’s market size to a quarter of...
The East African | The Democratic Republic of Congo (DR Congo) will officially be admitted to the East Africa Community (EAC) next week, adding a 90...
By John M. Mugane Once just an obscure island dialect of an African Bantu tongue, Swahili has evolved into Africa’s most internationally recognized language. It is...
Bloomberg | African governments are playing catch-up in vaccinating their populations against the coronavirus, with just 12 percent of the continent’s 1.3 billion people fully inoculated...
Actor Forest Whitaker and best-selling author Dambisa Moyo join group of NBA Africa investors.
The Board of Directors of the African Development Bank Group has approved a US$1.5 million grant to assess policy gaps in the digital trade and e-commerce...
Other strong performers include East African neighbors, Kenya and Tanzania, as well as Namibia and Egypt.
By Max Walter Industrial policy is seeing a revival in Africa and beyond. In fact, governments across the continent are now explicitly using a variety of...
"Chinese investments in Africa are “going on very well. The next thing I would ask from them is to allow our products to enter their market...
In many cases, the ICC’s pattern of inconsistently pursuing cases has also made it seem like a partisan institution among post-conflict communities, a perception that politicizes...
Kenya’s dominance however has historically been tested by Ethiopians. More recently, the challenge comes from the emergence of Uganda, cementing the place of East Africa as...
Platform will further integrate informal traders into formal markets through better access to digital finance systems.
Bloomberg | Uganda aims to inoculate 22 million people, about half of its population, to enable the economy to fully re-open, and is setting aside Ugsh560...
Rebellious young people aren't a threat - they're the key to democratic reform
Bloomberg | Uganda’s government ordered schools and places of worship closed, and restricted public transport between regions, for 6 weeks to contain a fresh flood of...
Xinhua | Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan and her Ugandan counterpart Yoweri Museveni on Thursday declared the launch of a US$3.55 billion crude oil pipeline venture....
As the east African nation of Uganda inches closer to announcing new exploration and production licences that will pump fresh energy into its oil and gas...
East African governments are betting big on new railway and port projects to boost the regional market’s competitiveness with Asia. After years of neglect, East Africa’s...
Uganda is offering 6 petroleum blocks in its first competitive licensing round for oil exploration in the Albertine Graben area, a region where oil has already...
By Emmanuel Musaazi When I caught a glimpse of Uganda’s Draft AGOA National Response Strategy, my patriotic heart soared. I was, especially, proud that Uganda has...
Police in the Ugandan capital Kampala seized “substantial amounts of explosives” and suicide vests in raids on a suspected al-Qaeda-linked al-Shabaab cell that was planning an...
The estimate of Uganda’s petroleum resource base has almost doubled with the discovery of an additional 3 billion barrels in the Albertine region of the country,...
Uganda’s Ministry of Health stated that there is no confirmed case of Ebola in the country. The suspected Ebola patient screened at Entebbe International Airport has tested...
When Ebola hit Uganda two years ago, the country’s president quickly went on national TV and urged Ugandans to avoid touching each other. Health officials speedily...
Uganda’s constitutional court on Friday invalidated an anti-gay bill signed into law earlier this year, saying the measure is illegal because it was passed during a...
At least 14 million Ugandans used the mobile money platform to trade, send and receive money last year, putting it among the most used medium of...
The East African Community (EAC) comprising Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda and Kenya has increased import duty on rice in a move to discourage cheap imports of...
Kenya, Uganda and South Sudan are expected to invite bids for a consultant to oversee the building of an oil pipeline to transport crude. The crude...
Uganda insists it will not pull out its troops from the troubled Somalia, despite an increase in attacks on its soldiers by Somali militants. Uganda’s Defence...
The former leader of Uganda’s main opposition party, Forum for Democratic Change (FDC), said any political survey done in Uganda should be viewed with some suspicion because...
Africell is a privately owned telecoms company with operations in African countries such as Gambia, Sierra Leone and Democratic Republic of the Congo. An Orange Group...
Uganda will begin commercial oil production by the end of 2017 after the completion of an export pipeline and a refinery in the country, minister of...
When it comes to acronyms of the global economy, South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria have repeatedly represented Africa. They show up in acronyms coined by economists and...
Uganda’s economic growth should accelerate to just above 6 per cent in the next fiscal year through June 2015. This was despite the risk of reduced...
The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has implemented a new cargo tracking system which will alert officials in the organization of not only location, but information related...
The race is on between Uganda and Kenya to see which will emerge as the region’s first oil producer. With the Ugandan government estimating reserves of about...
Kenya launched a single electronic system for processing imports and exports. This was done to simplify red tape blamed for holding up trade in the trading...
Upcoming entrepreneurs in East Africa have been given a gleam of hope after the announcement of a 20 million dollar fund. The fund, named the Novastar...
One hundred and seven people have died after a boat capsized in a lake along the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ugandan...
Construction of the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam. PHOTO/File Ethiopia is on track to generating electricity within 18 months from what will be Africa’s largest power plant....
In the last decade, the use of technology has contributed enormously to growth story of sub-Saharan Africa’s economies. Technology has opened Africa to new vistas and...
Thousands of people moving through the South-Sudan-Uganda border post now have access to a MTN customer service center in the area. On Friday, mobile operator MTN...
A senior official at the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA) stated that the organization is encouraged by an agreement between heads of state...
Kenyan book publisher Longhorn reported a 78 percent increase in its pretax profit for the six months ended in December. The growth was driven by the...
Uganda’s ruling NRM has nominated President Yoweri Museveni to stand for re-election in two years-time. Museveni has been in power since 1986 and if he wins...
Uganda stated that it will not fully withdraw its forces from South Sudan, despite concerns their continued presence is complicating efforts to bring peace to the...
East African integration is moving closer to reality with the signing of the East African Monetary Union Protocol during the Heads of State Summit to be...
Uganda is holding the military commander of Congo’s defeated M23 rebel movement after he surrendered, a Ugandan officer said on Thursday, allaying fears that it could...
Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil (Bloomberg) – Uganda is looking for a lead investor to develop a refinery estimated to cost US$2.5 billion, two weeks...
Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil Uganda finally took the first baby steps towards oil production with the assigning of a production licence to the China...
Ask anyone with insider knowledge of Africa’s regional economic communities – and they will tell you that most of the issues keeping Africa apart are not...
East Africa’s third largest economy, Uganda plans to double the length of its power grid in four years at a cost of US$500 million as it...
A worker at the Petroleum Refinery plant in Mombasa, Kenya. PHOTO/Daily Nation Kenya is headed to become the first oil exporter in East Africa, moving in...
(Bloomberg) – Uganda’s economy is on course to expand in 2013-14 at the higher end of its forecast range, driven by growth in the services industry...
(Reuters) – Investors from Europe, Asia and the United States are not the only ones chasing growth opportunities in Africa these days – Africans themselves are...
Studies looking at the impact of Western aid programs have revealed that there is zero correlation between per capita overseas development assistance and changes in gross...
Trinidad & Tobago in a partnership agreement with Uganda will lend its experience in the oil and gas industry in the development of the East African...
Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil West Africa’s insurance companies and commercial banks are setting up subsidiaries in East Africa to take advantage of the oil...
(Reuters) – Uganda has agreed to a plan to build a pipeline from its oilfields to a new port being developed on Kenya’s northern coast, Uganda’s...
(Reuters) – Ethiopia and Egypt cooled talk of war on Tuesday and agreed to more dialogue to resolve a row over a giant dam that Ethiopia...
Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil With an estimated 3.5 billion barrels of untapped oil reserves, Uganda is expected to join Nigeria, Angola and Sudan among...
Bharti Airtel, India’s largest mobile telecom operator revealed Tuesday that it t has entered into a definitive agreement with United Arab Emirates-based Warid Group to acquire...
African middle class family in Lusaka, Zambia. PHOTO/Georgina Smith/The Guardian A raft of trickle-down economic policies adopted by East African governments to fight poverty seems to...
(Reuters) – Uganda’s sole state pension fund said on Wednesday it would start investing in Kenyan debt and equities and establish a private equity fund to...
East African financial institution, the Kenya Commercial Bank has announced another round of layoffs. This comes 2 years after the bank started reducing on staffing costs...
(Reuters) – Uganda plans to build an inland port on Lake Victoria near its capital Kampala to reduce its near-total dependence on Kenya’s Mombasa, plagued by...
(Reuters) – Zambia’s mines and energy said on Monday the government would revoke oil exploration licences of companies that had been awarded them but had not...
(Reuters) – Kenya and Uganda said on Monday they were looking for a strategic private investment partner to build and operate a pipeline to transport refined...
Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil Uganda and Kenya are both individually expected to introduce new licensing for oil and gas exploration in 2013. Uganda first...
By Christmas Eve of 2012, it was apparent that on top of a general paucity that comes with being one of the world’s poorest countries, Ugandans...
A view of Auckland, New Zealand from Nigeria’s satellite – the NigeriaSat-X Economic Boom Fuels Ghana’s, Nigeria’s, Kenya’s —and Continent’s—dream of building telescopes and satellites to...
Rebels in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo have started withdrawing from two towns captured from government troops, following a deal brokered by Uganda, their military leader...
(The East African) – Uganda’s electricity distributor, Umeme, will launch the country’s biggest initial public offer (IPO) on Monday, October 15, hoping to attract investors across...
Bujagali Hydropower Plant (Business Wire) – Completion of project showcases successful public-private partnership for infrastructure development, bringing together the Government of Uganda, Industrial Promotion Services (IPS...
A Uganda air force pilot, is rescued from the wreckage of a helicopter on Mount Kenya. Rescue teams were searching on Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2012 for...
Stephen Kiprotich of Uganda celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the men’s marathon in the London 2012 Olympic Games August 12, 2012. PHOTO/Reuters...
Almost all prominent or successful business people in the Great Lakes Region [loosely Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, East Africa including Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Rwanda...
(Reuters) – Uganda’s sole power distributor Umeme plans to list this year on the Uganda and Nairobi stock exchanges as it looks to raise capital to...
Massive landslides induced by torrential rains destroyed three villages in the mountainous district of Bududa in eastern Uganda, killing scores of people but possibly hundreds, officials...
(Reuters) – Planned investment in Uganda more than tripled in the first quarter of this year from the preceding three months, buoyed by increasing interest in...
Uganda troops hunt for Joseph Kony. PHOTO/Rodney Muhumuza/AP A Ugandan army official says Ugandan forces have captured a senior commander of Joseph Kony’s Lord’s Resistance Army...
Tullow Oil says that it has found even more oil at a site in northern Kenya discovered in March. Tullow said previously that 20 meters (about...
(Reuters)- China’s Gingko Energy Company plans to invest US$100 million over a five-year period to revive production at Kilembe copper mine in western Uganda, the east...
Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni. PHOTO/File Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni will step down in 2016 if his ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM) party asks him to. Museveni...
Six of the world’s fastest growing economies are in sub-Saharan Africa, among them Uganda and Ethiopia, according to UK-based economic experts Ernst & Young. According to...
Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil (Reuters) – A worldwide rig shortage is delaying oil drilling in East Africa, which is slowing growth and pushing up...
The African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) as met with its African member states, as part of its continental fundraising efforts. The consultations on the fringes of...
Kenya President Mwai Kibaki on Monday announced the discovery of oil in Turkana county, located in the country’s arid north-western region. The President said successful drilling...
Joseph Kony. PHOTO/AFP The African Union (AU) said Friday it will send 5,000 soldiers to join the hunt for notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony, a new...
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni. PHOTO/Findlay Kember/AFP Two Ugandan opposition lawmakers started a petition to impeach Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni, accusing him of abuse of office, the...
(Bloomberg) — Inflation in East Africa may slow this year as food prices ease, while rising oil costs will probably boost imports and widen trade deficits,...
Oil rig in Uganda. PHOTO/Tullow Oil (Reuters) – British oil firm Tullow Oil said a long-awaited US$2.9 billion deal to bring in French oil major Total...
Oil prospecting in Uganda. PHOTO/File The recent signing of new oil agreements between Uganda and Tullow has paved the way for the farm-down to partners Total...
(Reuters) – Nakumatt Holdings, Kenya’s leading supermarket chain, expects to grow sales 20 percent in its 2012/13 year, helped by expansion into east Africa’s fast-growing middle-class...
The Ugandan parliamentarian who first introduced an anti-gay bill that carried the death penalty for some homosexual acts reintroduced the bill on Tuesday, raising concerns among...
Economies of the East African Community (EAC) member states grew by more than five per cent last year, making the region one of the fastest growing...
Uganda has introduced an electronic tax collection system that is set to cut evasion and help boost domestic revenue collection. The country’s revenue collection equivalent to...
(Reuters) – Ugandan police fired tear gas before bundling opposition leader Kizza Besigye and several allies into police vans on Thursday, witnesses said, shortly before planned...
Plans to construct a pipeline to transport South Sudan’s oil through Uganda and Kenya in a bid to reduce over-reliance on Sudan’s infrastructure are at an...
Traders in Kampala, Uganda on Wednesday started a- three day sit down strike protesting commercial banks’ refusal to lower interest rates on loans given to them....
Construction of the US$4.7 billion railway line linking Rwanda, Burundi and Tanzania will begin in 2014, after the three governments finalize fund raising activities. Tanzania and...
According to a new and innovative approach to estimating the future growth potential of countries, designed by professors at Harvard and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),...
Uganda, Tanzania raise the red flag against Khartoum’s practice of Sharia law, treatment of women. Khartoum’s application to join the East African Community (EAC) was on...
Uganda President Yoweri Museveni has indicated to parliament he is not likely to delay approval of Tullow Oil‘s long proposed partnership with Total and the China...
Sidney Nsubuga Enoch (L) the man suspected to have murdered Ugandan gay rights activist David Kato. PHOTO/Daily Monitor/Johnson Mayamba A Ugandan court has sentenced a man...
The Kiira EV model developed by Makerere University Students. PHOTO/FAISWAL KASIRYE /DAILY MONITOR Uganda’s Makerere University has today released a new electric vehicle – named the...
Ugandan opposition leader Kizza Besigye was arrested Monday, the latest in a series of police clampdowns blocking his protest against rising food prices, police said. “He...
Dr. Adan Hassan Hillow, center-left, and Dr. Ali Omar Salim, center-right, appear in courtroom. (Photo: The Standard) Kenyan police have arrested a Muslim cleric on a...
Businesses in East Africa have continued to thrive and grow despite a global downward economic trend, a report by a UK based research organization indicates. The...
Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni said Sunday that U.S. military “personnel” being sent to Uganda to help fight the rebel group the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA) will...
Kenyan military forces moved into southern Somalia on Sunday, an official and residents said, a day after top Kenyan defense officials said the country has the...
The speaker of Uganda’s parliament has recalled the national assembly from recess for an emergency session to debate the tax disagreement between the government and London-listed...
The former vice-president of Uganda, Dr. Gilbert Bukenya (pictured), has been remanded in prison after an anti-corruption court ruled that he was involved in fraudulent practice...
Ugandan police say they have arrested a man who wrote a book criticizing the longtime president and the ruling party. Police spokeswoman Judith Nabakooba said Tuesday...
KAMPALA, Uganda — A Ugandan judge has convicted two suspects over bombings last year that killed 76 people in the East African nation. Judge Owiny Dollo...
Uganda‘s Security Minister Wilson Muruli Mukasa has accused the opposition of using social media in a “grand plan” to topple the government. His comments came as...
