By Denis Jjuuko If you drive along our highways early in the morning, you are most likely to see women with hoes going to till the land. On a certain highway, I counted about 20 women and only two men in a radius of about 20 kilometres. The figures are
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A lot has been written in the print media about how Uganda’s oil tax regime is delaying our prospect of joining the club of oil producing countries. During the Uganda-Tanzania business forum in Dar es salam last week, Tanzania President John Pombe Magufuli is reported to have asked president Yoweri
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Food security is a critical concern as the global population expands and natural resources dwindle. Smart solutions for more efficient farming, hardier crops, alternative sources of nutrition, and safer food packaging and storage are essential. No other single country – certainly not one as young and as tiny as Israel
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It was excitement among Ugandans when the news of working abroad first hit the waves in the mid 2000s. Around 2004, a number of Ugandans were recruited by private security companies to work in war ravaged Iraq and later Afghanistan. These were being hired by Americans then. Private security agencies
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The burgeoning African gaming market has been spearheaded by a number of countries in recent years with South Africa, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania widely deemed as the leading markets on the continent. Thanks to a concoction of budding technological hubs, increasing online access and digital penetrations rates, as well
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Japan cannot stop China from owning Africa. When it comes to votes of African nations in international agencies, that is. It’s too late. China already owns the votes of most Africa nations. Japan has a new mission in Africa: to save it from China’s “debt trap,” the prospect that some
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Without technological constraints, more people from across Africa are free to innovate and create on the global stage; democratisation of energy is necessary to enable Africans to move into the digital age. The term ‘Democratisation of Technology’ has become synonymous with the digital age. In a nutshell, it means that
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The Stanbic Purchase Managers Index (PMI) for August posted a slight decline in its headline registering 57.5 in August, down from the reading of 58.2 in July. However, the PMI still scored above the average since the survey began in June 2016. The survey, sponsored byStanbic Bank and produced by
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The Bank of Uganda (BoU) Governor, Prof. Emmanuel Tumusiime-Mutebile has revealed that the Central Bank has stepped up efforts to address weaknesses that led to the most recent commercial bank failures. “Although bank supervision and regulatory structures broadly follow international best practices, BoU has stepped up the strengthening of commercial
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In September 2018, Jennifer Musisi, the then Executive Director, KCCA at Kampala Capital City Authority (KCCA) unexpectedly announced resignation from the fatty job. It was shocking because President Yoweri Museveni had just renewed her four-year contract, having first been first appointed in that position in 2011. Consequently, Eng. Andrew Kitaka
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