By Henry Okurut Uganda has intensified its push to attract foreign direct investment, hosting a delegation of more than 40 Chinese investors keen on exploring opportunities in key sectors of the economy. The delegation, led by Uganda’s Ambassador to China Olive Wonekha, was received by the State Minister for Investment and Privatization Evelyn Anite, who positioned Uganda as a peaceful and profitable destination for global capital. Speaking during the engagement, Anite assured the investors of government support, emphasizing Uganda’s stability, investor-friendly policies and ready market. “We welcome our visitors from China to Uganda, the Pearl of Africa. This is a…
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By Henry Okurut Uganda’s aquaculture sector has received a significant boost with the unveiling of a climate-smart project at the Buginyanya Zonal Agricultural Research Development Institute, aimed at revolutionizing fish feed production using Black Soldier Fly larvae. The initiative, funded by the World Bank under the Uganda Climate-Smart Agricultural Transformation Project and implemented through the National Agricultural Research Organisation (NARO), seeks to provide a sustainable and affordable alternative to traditional fish feed ingredients such as mukene. Valued at 250,000 US dollars (approximately 370 million shillings released so far), the three-year project will focus on scaling up the production of Black…
By Henry Okurut The race for Uganda’s Speaker of Parliament has taken a dramatic turn, with Persis Namuganza reaffirming her bid and injecting fresh uncertainty into an already heated contest marked by political rivalry and sharp exchanges. Namuganza, an independent legislator who leans toward the ruling National Resistance Movement (NRM), insists she is still firmly in the race, drawing optimism from recent remarks by President Yoweri Museveni during a meeting in Kyankwanzi. The President urged restraint among supporters and indicated that all interested candidates would be given an opportunity to present their case, signaling that the contest remains open. “I…
By Henry Okurut Uganda’s urban transformation agenda has entered a new phase with the rollout of the Uganda Cities and Municipalities Infrastructure Development program (UCMID). It is a continuation and expansion of the earlier USMID phases that significantly reshaped the country’s urban landscape. The new program, spearheaded by the Ministry of Lands, Housing and Urban Development, is designed to position cities and municipalities as engines of economic growth, job creation and national transformation. It builds on the gains recorded under the first and second phases of the Uganda Support to Municipal Infrastructure Development (USMID), which delivered visible improvements across several…
By Henry Okurut The African Union has declared water and sanitation the defining priority for 2026, elevating the resource from a basic service to what leaders describe as the cornerstone of Africa’s transformation. Speaking at a media briefing at the African Union Commission headquarters in Addis Ababa on February 12, Commissioner for Agriculture, Rural Development, Blue Economy and Sustainable Environment, H.E. Moses Vilakati, laid out the urgency behind the decision. “It is estimated that over 400 million people in the African continent lack water for their daily livelihood and over 800 million still lack basic hygiene services,” Vilakati said. He…
By Flight Captain; Mike Mukula The assumption that multiparty democracy is the inevitable pathway to prosperity and progress in Africa deserves serious re-examination. While multiparty politics has delivered stability and growth in some societies, its transplantation into African contexts has often produced the opposite: political fragmentation, social regression, and weakened state capacity. To insist that one political model is universally valid, regardless of history, social structure, or stage of development, is both misleading and intellectually lazy. Africa’s political challenge has never primarily been the absence of elections; it has been the absence of cohesion, effective authority, and development-oriented governance. Multiparty…
By Henry Okurut A renewed African-led effort to end decades of instability in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) took centre stage in Uganda on Tuesday as the African Union, East African Community and SADC Panel of Facilitators held high-level talks with President Yoweri Museveni at State House Entebbe. The delegation, led by President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbé of Togo, formed part of a joint continental and regional initiative aimed at advancing dialogue and forging a comprehensive, African-owned solution to one of the continent’s longest-running conflicts. Addressing the meeting, former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo, a key member of the facilitation…
By Henry Okurut Uganda’s ambition to deliver faster, cheaper and more transparent public services is steadily being realised through the expansion of the National Backbone Infrastructure (NBI), a flagship government project that is now entering its most ambitious phase yet. Launched in 2006 ahead of the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM), the NBI has evolved over nearly two decades through multiple phases, gradually laying the digital foundation upon which government services, innovation and the private sector now depend. According to Dr Hatwib Mugasa, the Executive Director of the National Information Technology Authority–Uganda (NITA-U), the country is currently implementing Phase…
By Henry Okurut As the National Resistance Movement marks 40 years of liberation, Minister Hellen Adoa has credited the government under President Yoweri Museveni for bringing peace to Uganda, calling it the nation’s greatest achievement. In a candid interview, Adoa reflected on her personal experience growing up amid insecurity, recalling nights spent in bushes with her siblings during times of unrest. “The biggest achievement President Museveni and NRM have brought to Uganda is peace,” she said. “Peace allows people to wake up, go to their gardens, run businesses and send children to school even if government support is limited.” Adoa,…
By Henry Okurut A state-of-the-art ethanol manufacturing plant in Luwero District is emerging as a flagship example of Uganda’s push to stop exporting raw materials and instead add value locally, in line with recent directives by President Yoweri Museveni. PRO Industries, a family-owned investment under the Oswal Group, is producing Extra Neutral Alcohol (ENA) and ethanol from maize grain a first of its kind in East Africa, where most ethanol plants rely on molasses. According to the company’s Director, Riddhi Oswal, maize-based processing delivers the highest purity alcohol currently available in the region. “DNA, the highest purity alcohol you can…