2025/26 budget strategy to focus on four pivotal sectors
The Government is outlining an ambitious strategy for the 2025/2026 fiscal year, aimed at steering the country towards a fully monetized and formalized economy.
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EABC wants uniform Common External Tariffs
The East African Business Council (EABC) has urged regional governments of the East African Community (EAC) to uniformly apply the EAC Common External Tariff (CET) in a…
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Climate Change Crisis: Is Government really serious?
On June 13, Hon. Matia Kasaija, the Minister of Finance, Planning and Economic Development, delivered the budget speech for the financial year 2024/25 under the theme…
Stop budgeting for corruption, CSOs tell MPs
In a stirring call to action, Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) want Members of Parliament to eliminate budget allocations that enable corruption.
Activists applaud UGX 516 Bn climate allocation
In a decisive move to address the escalating climate crisis, the Government has earmarked UGX 516 billion for climate change mitigation efforts in the next financial…
Coffee exports anxiety after UGX32 bn budget cut
The Uganda Coffee Development Authority wants Parliament to intervene following the Government’s decision not to provide the UGX32.5 billion required for the…
Kiira Motors seeks UGX524 billion to fund 5-year plan
Kiira Motors Corporation, a budding indigenous vehicle building enterprise, has presented a UGX524 billion proposed business investment budget to the Presidential…
Excitement as Nigeria’s Dangote refinery starts production
The Dangote Oil Refinery, the largest on the continent at 650,000 barrels per day (bpd), has begun producing diesel and aviation fuel, the company said on January 13.