Uganda: Gold Exports Power Uganda's Mineral Economy As New Industry Heavyweights Emerge

Uganda's gold sector has moved to the centre of the country's export economy, with earnings hitting a record US$5.8 billion (about Shs21.1 trillion) in the year to November 2025,… Read more »

Uganda: Elections - Internet Shutdown Due in Uganda

The Uganda Communications Commission executive director Nyombi Thembo will at a special press conference Tuesday evening officially confirm a directive to all licensed Mobile… Read more »

Uganda: South African Netflix Star Thapelo Mokoena to Visit Uganda Next Month

South African actor, filmmaker, and entrepreneur Thapelo Mokoena will visit Uganda from 12th to 16th February 2026. Read more »

Uganda: Museveni Campaigns in Bukonzo East, Advocates for Commercial Agriculture and Tourism

President Yoweri Museveni on Monday campaigned in Bukonzo East, Kasese District, where he called on residents to embrace commercial agriculture, tourism, and manufacturing as key… Read more »

Africa: Local Capital Sparks Africa's Startup Funding Comeback

Africa's startup ecosystem is emerging from two difficult years with renewed momentum, buoyed by a funding rebound that is increasingly being driven by local venture capital. Read more »

Uganda: Museveni Campaigns in Kole, Emphasizes Fish Farming and Cattle Restocking

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni on Thursday campaigned in Kole District, where he outlined key priorities of the National Resistance Movement (NRM) ahead of the 2026 elections,… Read more »

Uganda: Uganda's Political Elite and the Dangerous Myth of Wealth

Uganda is awash with money, yet starved of production. This is not a rhetorical flourish; it is a measurable, lived contradiction. Walk through Kampala, Hoima, Gulu, or Mbarara,… Read more »

Uganda: EC Hands Presidential Candidates Copy of the National Voters Register

The Electoral Commission, through its Political Parties Unit, commenced the issuance of copies of the National Voters Register to representatives of presidential candidates. Read more »

Africa: What Challenges Does the World Economy Face in 2026?

From trade tensions and high debt burdens to fears of an AI stocks bubble, the global economy will face an array of risks that could dampen growth in the new year Read more »

Uganda: Private Sector Ends 2025 With High Hopes for Further Expansion

Following a 10-month period of job creation, Ugandan companies saw a broad stagnation in employment levels and higher input costs during December; nonetheless, driven by other… Read more »

East Africa: Uganda Breweries Learning for Life Program Celebrates 140 New Graduates

140 young people have graduated from Uganda Breweries Limited (UBL)'s Learning for Life program. This program has trained and equipped participants with essential business and… Read more »

Africa: Stanbic Bank Uganda's Agutamba in Africa's Top 100 Corporate Communication Leaders

Africa PR Week, the continent's leading platform for public relations and strategic communications professionals, has named Stanbic Bank Uganda's Kenneth Agutamba among the Top 100… Read more »

Africa: When African Conservation Crosses Borders

On the edge of the Okavango Delta,a where seasonal rains soften northern Botswana and the air carries the scent of wet grey earth, a quiet hotel in Maun became, for four days, the… Read more »

Uganda: Kpis Versus Keeping People Inspired - Colleague, Have You Achieved Your Target?

The year has come to an end, but for our working people, the 2025 KPIs had them at chokeholds, and the hustle and bustle will spill over to 2026. Read more »

Uganda: Silent Crisis - Uganda's Rising Lake Nalubale (Victoria) Water Levels

The water levels of Lake Victoria - that the locals call Lake Nalubale - have risen dramatically in recent years, displacing communities, destroying livelihoods, and causing… Read more »

Uganda: The Tragedy At Uganda Airlines

As the new year begins during the last two weeks of a presidential election, I feel it is necessary to ignore politics for a moment and focus on the tragedy unfolding before our… Read more »

Africa: Africa's Industrial Future Depends On Ties That Work

For decades, Africa has been described as the continent of the future -- a phrase that captures both hope and frustration. Read more »

Uganda: Museveni Tackles Traffic Congestion, PDM Theft in Mukono

President Yoweri Kaguta Museveni has pledged to fast-track alternative road networks around Kampala to ease traffic congestion while vowing to crack down on the theft and… Read more »

Africa: IMF - Africa to Become World Leader in Economic Growth in 2026

Most of the fastest-growing economies, with gross domestic product growth rates exceeding 6%, will be on the African continent in 2026, according to Africanews, citing data from… Read more »

Uganda: Museveni Pledges Second Constituency for Buvuma, Addresses Key Island Issues

President Yoweri Museveni, the National Resistance Movement (NRM) presidential candidate, has made significant pledges for the development of Buvuma Island, including the… Read more »

East Africa: Inside Israel's Foray Into the Horn of Africa

When Israel announced on Dec.26 that it had formally recognised Somaliland as an independent and sovereign state, it triggered diplomatic shockwaves far beyond the arid plains of… Read more »

Uganda: Zawedde Warns Against Misuse of Ai Ahead of General Elections

A senior Ugandan official on Friday warned the public against the misuse of artificial intelligence (AI) as the country heads toward general elections scheduled for Jan. 15, noting… Read more »

Africa: The African Rebirth - Ibrahim Traore and the Audacious Return of a Continent to Itself

Africa is not a sleeping giant; it is a suffocated one. Its lungs have long been pressed by the weight of imperial duplicity, its arteries drained by extractive economies… Read more »

East Africa: Uganda Bets On Agro-Industry and Fiscal Discipline to Expand Growth

The World Bank projects that poverty will keep falling through 2026 and 2027, extending a trend that resumed as growth picked up Read more »

Uganda: Museveni Vs Kyagulanyi - Minds

Yoweri Kaguta Tibuhaburwa Museveni and Robert Kyagulanyi Ssentamu, aka Bobi Wine, are two wide contrasts of each other. Both minds come from different eras. Museveni was born in… Read more »