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URA sees 10% reduction in tax objection cases..
Feb 21st, 2025Pedson MumberePeter
The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has reported a 10% decline in tax objections filed during the 2023/2024 financial year - reducing from 45% to 35%. ..

Government woos French investors to Uganda..
Feb 21st, 2025Pedson MumberePeter
Uganda’s Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury, Ramathan Ggoobi, has invited French investors to explore Uganda’s lucrative business e..

Watu unlocking livelihoods with electric bodas..
Feb 20th, 2025Business Edge ReporterPeter
Musa Lukwago, a resident of Kyengera on the outskirts of Kampala, started his delivery business in 2016. For a while, business was good—until he beg..

WWF gives women UGX300m anti-climate change bo..
Feb 18th, 2025Pedson MumberePeter
Western Uganda has increasingly faced the devastating effects of climate change, with prolonged droughts, unpredictable rainfall, and floods threateni..

Soroti blind kids get hi-tech MTN computer lab..
Feb 18th, 2025Business Edge ReporterPeter
MTN Uganda, through its MTN Foundation, in partnership with Sense International Uganda, has handed over a fully equipped computer laboratory to St. Fr..

Agro-tourism set to boost visitor numbers, rev..
Feb 17th, 2025Pedson MumberePeter
Agri-tourism, the type of tourism that combines agriculture and tourism, is emerging as a key frontier to diversify Uganda’s tourism industry beyon..

Austrian firm moots $500m carbon market deal..
Feb 12th, 2025Pedson MumberePeter
President Yoweri Museveni has reaffirmed Uganda’s commitment to leveraging its vast natural resources to tap into the global carbon market. ..

Atingi-Ego appointed Mutebile successor at BoU..
Feb 11th, 2025Pedson MumberePeter
President Yoweri Museveni has appointed Dr. Michael Atingi-Ego as the substantive Governor of the Bank of Uganda (BoU), replacing the late Tumusiime M..

Boda loans transforming Uganda’s livelihoods..
Feb 11th, 2025Business Edge ReporterPeter
When Andrew Mujuni lost his job as a security guard, his world turned upside down. After eight years of dedicated service, he was suddenly retrenched ..

Farmers cry out as UCDA demise blunts coffee a..
Feb 6th, 2025Pedson MumberePeter
When Robert Kabushenga quit his posh CEO job at Vision Group to focus on his Rugyeyo Farm, he thought he would become a living example of how coffee f..

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URA sees 10% reduction in tax objection cases..
The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has reported a 10% decline in tax objections filed during the 202..
Government woos French investors to Uganda..
Uganda’s Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury, Ramathan Ggoobi, has invited French in..
Watu unlocking livelihoods with electric bodas..
Musa Lukwago, a resident of Kyengera on the outskirts of Kampala, started his delivery business in 2..

MTN offers girls’ skilling initiative UGX270..
Smart Girls Foundation, a Kasangati-based girls’ skilling initiative, is set to receive an additio..
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MTN scoops fastest internet award..
Ookla, the global leader in internet testing and analysis, has announced MTN Uganda as the Fastest M..

BoU to review StanChart’s exit plan from Uga..
The Bank of Uganda (BoU) is set to assess a proposal from Standard Chartered Bank Uganda regarding t..
Anxiety as donor aid taps shrink further..
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Kidepo National Park to get posh airport, hote..
The Government of Uganda has reached an agreement with the Sharjah Chamber of Commerce and Industry,..

URA sees 10% reduction in tax objection cases..
The Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has reported a 10% decline in tax objections filed during the 202..
Government woos French investors to Uganda..
Uganda’s Permanent Secretary and Secretary to the Treasury, Ramathan Ggoobi, has invited French in..
Watu unlocking livelihoods with electric bodas..
Musa Lukwago, a resident of Kyengera on the outskirts of Kampala, started his delivery business in 2..

Uganda among top 20 FDI destinations in 2024 ..
Uganda has been named among the top 20 investment destinations on the African continent in 2024...
Uganda, South Sudan moot joint dam projects..
Pal Mai Deng, the South Sudanese minister of Water Resources and Irrigation, has submitted a memo to..
Uganda, 15 countries set for electricity trade..
The Eastern Africa Power Pool (EAPP), an intergovernmental organization that was established to prom..

WTO boss Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala given second term..
The General Council of the World Trade Organization (WTO) has agreed by consensus to reappoint Dr. N..
Likely implications of Trump return for Africa..
Across Africa, Donald Trump’s forth-coming second term holds various implications for the continen..
Optimism as Uganda nears full BRICS nod..
Uganda has become one of the two African countries that have been admitted into the BRICS alliance i..