KARENGA, July 9, 2026 — Women councillors from Karenga district in the Karamoja Sub-region have pledged to fight corruption, strengthen accountability and promote effective service delivery following the conclusion of a three-day training on how they can effectively legislate. The commitment was made at the close of the training under the Women’s Amplified Voice for …
KAMPALA, July 9, 2026 — Restructuring gets the summits; debt management gets the training workshops. Yet in a low-income country, the debt office is crisis-prevention and early-warning infrastructure, not a narrow technical function – and a fundamental institutional reform is overdue. All four G20 Common Framework applicants [Chad, Ethiopia, Ghana and Zambia] had passed through …
KAMPALA, July 9, 2026 — Cooperatives and coffee have emerged as key pillars of Buganda Kingdom’s development agenda after the Kingdom unveiled a Shs 409.315 billion budget for the 2026/27 financial year, representing a 27.7 per cent increase from the previous year’s Shs 320.508 billion budget. Presenting the budget, the Kingdom’s Treasurer and Second Deputy …
KAMPALA, July 9, 2026 — African Export-Import Bank [Afreximbank] through its development impact investment arm, the Fund for Export Development in Africa [FEDA], has appointed One Street Studios as the Co-General Partner of the Pan African Film Fund. This Fund aims to mobilise up to US$1 billion for Africa’s film and creative industries. Launched in …
LONDON, July 9, 2026 — A global cooperative fund established to promote peace and support cooperatives recovering from crises is seeking to raise more than US$ 600,000 by the end of 2026 as it expands its international membership. The Fund for International Development, a multistakeholder cooperative headquartered in the United Kingdom, was founded in December …
KAMPALA, July 8, 2026 – Four Ugandan farmers have filed a case before the High Court in London seeking to stop the East African Crude Oil Pipeline [ EACOP ] from commencing operations by asking the court to apply Ugandan environmental and climate laws against the project’s UK-registered operating company. The 1,443-kilometre pipeline, which is …
