Tag Archives: Uganda

By Angella Abushede and Muthoni Karubiu 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 the 27th of June. The event was organized in conjunction with the Uganda National Chamber …

By Stephen Kafeero 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. GEMS, the largest K-12 private education operator in the world has a global network educating 130,000 students from over …

By Hashim Wasswa Mulangwa It requires the GDP per capita to double in the next four years; from current US$500 to US$1,000 President Museveni, in his State of the Union Address today on June 6, made the same claim he has made numerous times before; that Uganda will be a …

By Muthoni Karubiu Ms Lilianne Ploumen, the Netherlands Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Corporation, embarked on a short trip to Uganda this week. Ms Ploumen met with several parties interested in a strong Ugandan-Dutch development relationship, including the Ugandan Ministers of Foreign Affairs, Trade, Agriculture, Energy, and Justice. The …

By Sarah Namulondo Uganda has selected IBM and Water fund to bench mark infrastructural development in the water sector in an agreement signed between the ministry of water and environment and Waterfund and IBM on May 23. This agreement makes Uganda the first African country to become a member of …

By Haggai Matsiko Uganda police abused its power and the law by closing two independent newspapers and radio stations in the wildest media attack, The African Centre for Media Excellence (ACME) has said. Armed police raided and closed down The RedPepper, a tabloid, Uganda’s largest independent newspaper, The Daily Monitor, …

By Julius Businge World Bank Group President Dr. Jim Yong Kim and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon will make a historic joint visit to Africa’s Great Lakes region from May 22 to 24 in support of a recent landmark peace agreement and to push for economic development in one of …

By Julius Odeke The Japanese Government on Tuesday April 30 announced it was providing a total of US Dollars 21.2 million to four UN agencies to support their collective response to the refugee situation in South-west Uganda, as well as the critical climate-related health, nutrition, water and sanitation challenges affecting …

By Joan Akello `We will punish you’ Energy officials accused of eating bribes In the March issue of the international business magazine, Forbes, the billionaire Sudhir Ruparelia is asked in an interview what he thinks is the biggest weakness of the Uganda economy. Sudhir answers:  “The left doesn’t know what …

By Ronald Musoke Park Jong-Dae, South Korea’s Charge d’Affaires shares his views on his country’s rapid economic development with The Independent’s Ronald Musoke. How did South Korea (officially the Republic of Korea) emerge from the depths of despair of the 1940s to its current industrialised status? Korea’s feat in its …