Analysis & Opinions

Youth being trained on how to turn waste into clean-burning briquettes in Namugongo In Kampala, where waste and poverty remain pressing challenges, two Ugandan women are leading a quiet but impactful transformation. Scovia N. Swabrah, Communications and Research Specialist at FINCA Uganda, and her colleague Justine Nabawanuka, a Marketing and

By Christopher Burke Across Uganda, millions of people live and work on land held under customary tenure. Families have cultivated, inherited and depended on this land for generations, remain locked out of one of the most powerful tools for economic empowerment: access to formal credit. Despite the growing recognition of

Walk-to-Work protests led by Dr. Kizza Besigye in 2011 were a result of politically induced inflation By Julius Businge In 2011, monetary policy briefings at the Bank of Uganda Boardroom, Level 7, delivered by the late Prof. Emmanuel Tumusiime Mutebile and often flanked by his deputy, Dr. Louis Kasekende and

The Kiteezi disaster has left the land fill closed awaiting decommissioning  In the Kiteezi trial, the prosecution’s next line of argument leans heavily on a series of internal audit reports and technical warnings allegedly “ignored” by the Executive and Deputy Executive Directors. But beneath the legal posturing lies a deeper

By Christopher Burke, Senior Advisor, WMC Africa In the early morning, the sounds of life pulse through the narrow lanes of Kasonkoso, five kilometres from the centre of Kampala. Pedestrians weave between tin-roofed houses, vendors set up makeshift stalls and the scent of charcoal mingles with hope and hustle. Beneath

Business owners have expressed optimism that business will grow in the next quarter due to election-related spending. This is contained in latest findings released by the Economic Policy Research Centre in their Uganda Business Climate Index UBCI) for the April to June quarter. Released on Wednesday, the UBCI report shows