A Ugandan registered company, H₂ Agro Uganda Limited has secured a government node to start a hydrogen industrial complex at the Karuma Hydropower Plant. The hydrogen park is expected to take advantage of the electricity produced at the dam to power a petrochemical industry that will mainly be based on
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A keynote speech by Lyle Horsley, Head of Fintech at the South African Reserve Bank and Chairperson of the Inter- governmental Fintech Working Group, at the 8th Africa Fintech Summit last November in Cape Town, South Africa. The Africa Fintech Summit is pleased to announce that its 10th edition will
Read MoreThe Minister of State for Finance (General Duties), Henry Musasizi Government is set to borrow Euro500M equivalent to Shs2.008Trn to finance the 2022/2023 national budget in a move that will see Uganda’s public debt rise further. MPs on the joint Parliament Committees of National Economy and Finance were left furious
Read MoreThe Minister of State for Higher Education, John Chrysestom Muyingo The Attorney General, Kiwanuka Kiryowa has assured both the local and international community not to reject degrees and masters attained by students from Uganda education institutions, saying there is no legal provision that provides for the expiry of courses, but rather,
Read MoreTwo joint partners in Kenya’s quest for oil in Turkana have quit the project, exerting new pressure on the main operator Tullow Oil, which has been unable to take the exercise off the ground after the British oil explorer ran out of cash. Africa Oil says it abandoned the Kenya
Read MoreThe National Council for Higher Education- NCHE has said that the qualifications of graduates who pursued courses that expired, but with prior accreditation are valid. In a statement released on Tuesday, Professor Mary Okwakol, the Executive Director of NCHE, emphasized that despite the possibility of the programmes being due for
Read MoreLow & Middle-Income Countries, 78.6% High-Income Countries Experiencing High Food Price Inflation – Study
Domestic food price inflation remains high around the world. Information from the latest month between January 2023 and April 2023 for which food price inflation data are available shows high inflation in most low- and middle-income countries, with inflation higher than 5% in 64.7% of low-income countries, 81.4% of lower-middle-income
Read MoreAttorney General, Kiryowa Kiwnuka (2nd L) chats with other MPs when the House was suspended for a break. He withdrew the bill on a new pension fund Government has withdrawn a new pension Bill that was recently tabled in Parliament. The Public Service Pensions Fund Bill,2023 introduced on 14 March
Read MoreThe plan by the Opposition MPs to warn Parliament on how unviable the proposal by Ministry of Finance Planning and Economic Development to spend Shs12.7Bn for the purchase of bicycles for Parish Model Development (PDM) Chiefs and payment of rent for their offices, was rejected by their counterparts on ruling Government, who
Read MoreTullow Oil, the global independent oil and gas firm says it is to assume a 100% stake in Kenya’s South Lokichar Basin project. On Tuesday, Tullow Kenya said it has been informed by its two minority partners of their intention to issue notices of withdrawal from Blocks 10BB, 13T, and
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