Mauritius to host Africa’s own credit rating agency
Ratings influence who lends to African governments and at what price, and the Africa Credit Rating Agency is the continent’s bid to build its own assessmentsNearly half of Uganda’s gold exports come from firm Bloomberg links to sanctioned network
Bloomberg says Thaba, behind nearly half of Uganda’s gold exports, shares suppliers with a sanctioned refinery, a claim Thaba and Alain Goetz deny
Ticking bomb in Mpigi: a 320-million-litre oil terminal beside an open-air landfill
A $310mn petroleum terminal meant to bolster Uganda’s fuel security rises in Mpigi beside an open-air landfill mired in legal dispute
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Uganda Airlines faces potential disruption as Airbus orders software fix for A320 jets
Airbus has ordered an immediate software update for about 6,000 of its A320 family aircraft — roughly half of the global fleet — after discovering that intense solar radiation can corrupt critical flight control data
