A leading Chinese Newspaper has penned a strongly worded editorial condemning the United States’ latest move to advance a massive arms sales package to Taiwan, describing it as a dangerous escalation that undermines the very foundations of China–US relations. In the editorial, The China Daily notes that the reported US$11
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President Museveni has insisted that Uganda must get rid of exporting raw minerals like this one. "I banned the export of minerals from Uganda and personally I banned them," he said When President Yoweri Museveni imposed a ban on the export of unprocessed minerals, his message was blunt and
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Financial institutions approved loans to a tune of UGX1.930Trn in October 2025, with personal loans taking the biggest share. This is according to the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development’s the Performance of the Economy Monthly Report for November 2025 that was released last week. “The value of credit
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President Museveni addressing a campaign rally in Dokolo in 2024 where the voters and politicians raised concerns about the Fisheries Protection Unit President Yoweri Museveni has ordered the end of the Fisheries Protection Unit (FPU) and landing site committees. This comes after years of protests from fishing communities, legal
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Alhaj Kaddunabbi Ibrahim Lubega officiated at the launch of Certificate in Takaful, Insurance for Non-Insurance Professionals. For decades, Uganda’s insurance sector has struggled with persistently low penetration, hovering around one percent of GDP. Despite steady growth in the number of licensed insurers, large segments of the population remain uninsured due
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By Emmy Hashakimana - Managing Director at Coca-Cola Beverages Uganda The phrase “Culture eats strategy for breakfast” is often quoted by writers, consultants and organisational culture experts. As I settled into my role at the helm of Coca-Cola Beverages Uganda (CCBU), I found this statement both true and profound. Strategies
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With funding (Shs850bn) from World Bank, the GoU is continuing to use the PSFU-implemented GROW project to avail low-cost loans (at just 10% interest per annum) to hundreds of female entrepreneurs to enable them sustain, grow, expand and diversify their businesses while breaking into areas that hitherto were male-dominated.
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President Museveni launching the GROW Project For these five years (2021-2026) of government, the government of Uganda's focus has chiefly been economically transformation millions of Ugandan households through Parish Development Model (PDM), an intervention through which each of Uganda's 10,717 parishes is given Shs100m per year. The money is to
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Scavenger birds fly from cages on Lake Victoria. Photo by Wambi Michael At Masese landing site, on the Jinja side of Lake Victoria, the lake tells a different story from a decade ago. Where open waters once stretched uninterrupted, hundreds of floating cages now dot the surface as far as
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Canine crew display tracking skills/UPF picture Twelve years ago, the Uganda Police Force decided to stop relying on imported sniffer dogs and instead breed its own. Today, at the Naggalama Police Canine Breeding Centre in Nakifuma County, Mukono District, that decision is paying off, both financially and operationally, while reshaping
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