Graft claims, cost overruns, slow works mar Shs2trillion World Bank project
By Frederic Musisi & Yahudu Kitunzi In April 2019, the government and the World Bank signed a $200m (Shs753b) financing...
Build Uganda Buy Uganda: How Chinese firms are taking advantage of local content policy
Kampala: Sometime in 2014, Uganda’s Ministry of Trade, Industry and Cooperatives came up with a novel policy. Buy Uganda Build...
EXCLUSIVE! EAC Force deployment into volatile DRC crystallises
The East African Community’s troop deployment to combat hundreds of militias, regional proxy armies and mercenaries roaming the vast green...
Poor mothers bleed to death as unscrupulous health workers sell blood
It’s 9am and Rosette Kamuntu is at home in Ntinda preparing a snack after dropping her kids to school. She...
Counting the Cost: Covid-19 Dents Aspirations of Small Scale Irrigation Farmers in Kenya and Uganda
By Dicta Asiimwe and Ruth Keah Until 2017, Tabitha Kisinga a mother to a set of triplets and seven other...
Inside 25 years of GMOs in Africa: Looking to the future
In the 25 years since the first genetically modified (GM) crop was introduced in Africa, most of the continent has...
Fears of deadly consequences cloud Africa’s attempts to embrace GMOs
In the second installment of this three-part cross-national investigation into Africa’s GMO industry, Andiswa Matikinca, Arnaud Ouedraogo and Benon Herbert Oluka look...
Inside 25 years of GMOs in Africa
A quarter of a century has passed since South Africa became the first country in Africa to farm genetically modified...
Children and the pandemic: the story of Uganda’s child labour crisis
By Ezaruku Draku Franklin The unprecedented economic impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, together with school closures and inadequate government assistance,...
Covid -19 variants threatens Uganda’s ailing health systems
Uganda’s ailing health sector could creak under the strain of a second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic as health officials...
