LONDON, July 1, 2026 — Matteo Patrone, Vice President for Banking at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development [EBRD], is visiting Nigeria from July 1-3, to open the Bank’s first office in Lagos. The opening of the office – which will also be attended by Nigeria’s Finance Minister, Taiwo Oyedele – represents an important …
KAMPALA, July 1, 2026 — Uganda’s economy registered a mixed performance in May 2026, with new government data showing improvements in income per person, investment, exports and business registrations, while the country also experienced rising fuel prices, worsening air quality, higher malaria prevalence and a widening trade deficit. The findings are contained in the May …
TORORO, July 1, 2026 — The Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Marksons Oboth, has urged communities in the Bukedi Sub-region to harness the economic potential of coffee and cocoa production as a means of breaking the cycle of household poverty. Speaking at the official launch of the Coffee and Cocoa Household Poverty Eradication Initiative, Oboth described …
JAKARTA, July 1, 2026 – Indonesia has scaled back basic military training for prospective managers of President Prabowo Subianto’s flagship village cooperative programme following the deaths of five participants in the opening weeks of the exercise, and amid growing calls for the scheme to be scrapped. The defence ministry, which is overseeing the programme, confirmed …
KITGUM, July 1, 2026 — Mucwini Coffee Growers’ Co-operative Society Limited in Kitgum district, Northern Uganda, is transforming coffee seedling scarcity into surplus, with an ambitious target of producing 140,000 seedlings annually for farmers across Kitgum and the wider East Acholi sub-region. Just two years after its formation in 2024, the cooperative has grown from …
KAMPALA, July 1, 2026 – Global average gross agricultural income per worker is projected to rise by 9 per cent by 2035, driven by productivity improvements and broadly stable agricultural prices, according to a new report released on Tuesday by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations [FAO] and the Organisation for Economic …
