KABALE, June 17, 2026 — On a misty morning in Nyamiyanga Village, Kabale district, Kigezi Subregion, Mary Tukamushaba steps outside her home with a small basket in hand. Within a few strides of her kitchen door, she bends over neat rows of cabbage, sukuma wiki and carrots, carefully picking fresh vegetables for the day’s meal. …
ACCRA and LONDON, June 17, 2026 — Affinity Africa, Ghana’s leading digital banking platform, has released a new report in collaboration with the Mo Ibrahim Foundation and Yale’s International Leadership Centre examining the drivers and impacts of cash dependency in Africa and the steps required to address it. The research makes clear that Africa’s cash dependency is …
KAMPALA, June 17, 2026 — The World Bank Group and the African Development Bank Group have announced that Mission 300 has now connected more than 50 million people to electricity across 40 countries, marking a major milestone towards the initiative’s target of reaching an additional 300mln people by 2030. The programme is currently delivering electricity …
KIGALI, June 17, 2026 — The East African Community [EAC] has officially launched national consultations in Rwanda on the drafting of the Constitution for the EAC Political Confederation. The consultations are intended to provide citizens and stakeholders with an opportunity to share their views on how the Political Confederation should be structured and governed, and …
SOROTI, June 17, 2026 — Farmers in the Teso Sub-region have been urged to embrace government’s revised livestock vaccination policy, with officials stating that the fees being introduced will help government to respond quickly to diseases like control foot-and-mouth disease [FMD] and keep the livestock market active. The Ministry of Agriculture, Animal Industry and Fisheries …
AMOLATAR, June 17, 2026 — Amolatar district has launched a livestock vaccination campaign targeting more than 60,000 cattle and 120,000 goats and sheep in an effort to curb the spread of major animal diseases and strengthen household incomes. The exercise, launched on Tuesday, follows the delivery of vaccines against the contagious Lumpy Skin Disease [LSD] …
