L-R: Sally Jepkorir, a Shareholder, Equity Group Chairman, Prof. Isaac Macharia, Equity Group Managing Director and CEO, Dr. James Mwangi and Daniel Kimotho, a Shareholder, during the Full Year 2024 Investor Briefing event. Equity Group Holdings Plc continues to deliver solid financial results, underpinned by the Group's strategic focus on
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Coffee is Uganda's key foreign exchange earner Uganda’s coffee exports in February 2025, amounted to 555,756 60-kilo bags, worth US$ 167.68 million (Shs614.85bn), the Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries, has said. In its monthly report for February 2025, MAAIF says this comprised of 466,691 bags of Robusta valued
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Women in attendance at the Abakyala Ku Ntiiko Lira Women in small and retail businesses have been advised to embrace digital marketing tools and networking as ways of promoting their products and business. Speaking at the Equity bank’s Abakyala Ku Ntiiko women initiative held at Lira Hotel, in Lira City,
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The Uganda Registration Services Bureau (URSB) has intensified its efforts to enforce compliance with the Companies Act, 2012, by striking off and deregistering non-compliant companies from the register. In 2023, the Registrar of Companies struck off 297,697 companies from the register that failed to file annual returns for five consecutive
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Otafiire (L) interacts with State Minister, Gen David Muhoozi during the meeting of the committee As country gears up for the 2026 general elections, the Uganda Police Force (UPF) is seeking Shs157 billion in the 2025/2026 financial year budget to cater for recruitment of probation police constables (PPCs). Uganda is
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Tumwebaze before the Committee of Parliament recently. The Opposition has expressed concern over the government’s increasing reliance on foreign funding for the agriculture sector, revealing that in the 2025/26 National Budget, external financing is set to rise from UGX 929.26 billion to UGX 1.048 trillion, while government expenditure on
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Parliament has approved the government’s request to borrow $190 million (UGX 699.938 billion) from Stanbic Bank to finance the buyout of Umeme, despite recommendations from both the Auditor General and the Committee on National Economy to halt the process until the actual buyout amount is established. The decision, made during
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Kenneth Barigye, the Managing Director at Mountain Harvest SMC Ltd, has been marketing and promoting Uganda’s coffee. His company, Mountain Harvest, has won several quality awards Uganda’s coffee quality is ranked third best globally, according to beanpoet. The 2020 ranking was based on coffees from around the world harvested from
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From Left to Right: Judy Waruiru, Regional Managing Director for East Africa Acquiring at Network, and Bobby Koshy Regional Manager, East and South Africa at flydubai during the partnership announcement. Network International (Network), a leading enabler of digital commerce in the Middle East and Africa, has extended its partnership with
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Robert Nash, Helpware CEO Helpware, a global leader in Business Process Outsourcing (BPO), has welcomed Uganda’s newly launched BPO policy, hailing it as a transformative step in positioning the country as a major outsourcing hub in Africa. Speaking at a media briefing in Kampala, Helpware CEO Robert Nash said the
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