June 28

• Uganda: Will World Bank Buy Peace in DR Congo? [analysis]

  The recent joint visit to the Great Lakes Region by the UN secretary General Ban Ki-Moon and World Bank President Jim Yong Kim to support a peace deal in DR Congo and promote... Read more »

• Uganda: Next Big Fight Is On Generic Pharmaceuticals [opinion]

  After winning extension on enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights, LDCs are targeting pharmaceuticals 2016 deadline Read more »

• Uganda: How Museveni Nearly Quit NRM

  On Friday October 22, 2010, President Yoweri Museveni held a heated meeting at State House, Entebbe, with a little-known former aide of his, Capt. Daudi Ruhinda Maguru. Present at... Read more »

• Uganda: Standard Chartered's Interest Rate Gamble

  Second largest commercial bank shakes up loan market with 13 percent cut in interest rate Read more »

• Uganda: EPAS Will Spur Regional Trade - EU [interview]

  Kenya's Vice President William Ruto recently said his government is trying to expedite negotiations to sign EPAs before the October 2014 deadline. The Independent's Joan Akello... Read more »

June 27

• Uganda: PTA Bank Aspires for More Business in Uganda

  The Preferential Trade Area Bank (PTA), also known as the Eastern & Southern African Trade & Development Bank, held a Bank Business Seminar at Sheraton Hotel in Kampala on... Read more »

June 26

• Uganda: Kazinda to Spend Five Years in Luzira

  The anti-corruption court has sentenced former Principal Accountant in the Office of the Prime Minister Geoffrey Kazinda to 5 years in prison. Last week he was found guilty of 1... Read more »

June 25

• Uganda: AfDB Lists Sh12.5billion Bond On Use

  The officer in charge of the African Development Bank (AfDB), Jason Mosomi Mochache says the 2 year local currency bond that attracts 25 percent yield will finance infrastructure... Read more »

• Uganda: 5,000 to Receive Free Surgery

  In a drive to bring specialist health services nearer to the masses, the Association of Surgeons of Uganda has today received a donation of Shs5 million from Umeme Uganda Ltd as a... Read more »

• Uganda: A New International School to Open in Uganda

  GEMS Cambridge International School is set to join the growing list of international schools in Uganda and will open its first Ugandan campus this September in Butabika, Kampala.... Read more »

June 21

• Uganda: Dealing With Respiratory Tract Infections

  The hospitalisation of former South African President, Nelson Mandela has once again drawn attention to the medical challenge posed by lung infections among the elderly. Mandela is... Read more »

• Uganda: Executive Style - Adding Value, Creating Wealth [interview]

  Snowmans Uganda Ltd has since 1997 been supplying milk handling equipment, packaging for dairy and food products among other types of equipment. The Chief Executive Officer Taj... Read more »

• Uganda: Engineering Ways to Feed the Nation [opinion]

  Appropriate technologies are required to ensure the rapidly changing climate is tamed and our fast growing population is fed Read more »

• Uganda: Nostalgia: Striking Balance Between Contemporary, Traditional African Art Elements

  When you walk into the running exhibition at AKA Gallery in Kampala, the raw African culture and tradition on display immediately feels you with a feeling of nostalgia. Read more »

• Rwanda: Housing Worries in Kigali

  Many foreigners, especially those from African countries sing praises of Rwanda's very well-organised building system, with good structures in place. Talk of the paved roads, and... Read more »

• Uganda: Chicken Opportunity

  Gerald Mukalazi, a small-holder poultry farmer, owns over 1, 000 local chickens and earns about Shs 100, 000 from eggs daily during peak seasons. Read more »

• Uganda: Don't Underestimate Muhoozi, Museveni Tells Top Commanders

  It was in the last part of his speech to the UPDF High Command, but President Yoweri Museveni's comments about his son, Brig. Muhoozi Kainerugaba, have become the talking point... Read more »

• Uganda: Kiwanuka's Budget Strategy

  A day after Finance Minister Miria Kiwanuka presented 2013/14 FY budget, a meeting of the Private Sector Foundation of Uganda (PSFU) on June 14 praised her for factoring in 76% of... Read more »

• Uganda: Tullow Downs Heritage

  When Tullow won its case against Heritage in the High Court in London, there were other parties celebrating than the oil company. In his judgment dated June 14, Justice Burton... Read more »

• Uganda: Bralirwa Moves to Contain High Business Costs

  Bralirwa, Rwanda's leading beer and soft drinks brewery, has raised factory prices on three out of its five locally brewed beer brands to offset the rising business costs resulting... Read more »

• Uganda: Budget - Private Sector Optimistic

  Finance Minister Maria Kiwanuka is always calm in public. But if there is anything that has tested her resilience, it's the 2013/2014 Budget, her third in two years. Kiwanuka's... Read more »

• Uganda: The Missing Intellectual Voice [opinion]

  I am inclined to believe countries get leaders they deserve. I am also inclined to believe that countries don't get leaders they deserve. How does one reconcile this apparent... Read more »

• Uganda: Sleeping At the Wheel

  Calling coincidence or whatever but the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention in the U.S. has released a new report on sleeping. Not in parliaments across the world, although... Read more »

• Uganda: Karuma Finally On Course

  After delays over jitters of bribery amongst bidders and ministry of energy officials, government has contracted Sinohydro Corporation, a Chinese firm to construct the 600MW Karuma... Read more »

• Uganda: Tips for Sleeping Ministers, MPs [opinion]

  Whenever someone is delivering a very predictable message, the audience is always going to nap Read more »