It is hard to believe today, but just 12 years ago access to electricity was reserved for urban dwellers. Under the government run Uganda Electricity Board, power outages were expected rather than a surprise and...
There is an ongoing push to put pressure on government agency, NITA-U, to give Chinese company telecommunications company, ZTE a bid to complete the final phase of the National Backbone infrastructure (NBI). It has been...
According to the Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBoS),Micro Small and Midsize Enterprises (MSME) are categorised based on meeting any one of the criteria relating to the number of employees or total assets. The classification of...
While events to mark 50 years of Uganda's political independence, were going on, two prominent theatre companies, Afri-Talent and Bakayimbira Dramactors wrote and staged a play; 'The State of the Nation' (Ejjirikiti), which was an...
Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SMEs) are an important segment in Uganda’s economy. According to the Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives, the SME sector employs over 2.5 million people (90% of the entire private sector)...
Dear Jajja Museveni, I have just completed the unenviable and painful task of labouring through the statement that was purportedly written by you in response to my brother Robert Kyagulanyi, a youthful legislator, musical genius...
Life expectancy is growing in Uganda but the country continues to struggle with communicable diseases like HIV and malaria, as well as neonatal ailments that kill infants. Globally, countries have saved more lives over the...
Every time, we scroll through our social media timelines and read newspapers, we got shocked by the atrocious stories of girls going through prostitution and human trafficking and our hearts break. We read about girls...
OPINION by Eric Schwartz. In recent years, the West has become obsessed with the problem of refugees — and generally not in a good way. The United States and other wealthy countries have been unkind at...
The Bank of Uganda (BoU) has defended its monetary policy stance of inflation targeting lite, saying it is having the desired effects. The BoU introduced the inflation targeting lite monetary policy stance in response to...
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