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Business conditions improve for first time in four months

Downtown Kampala, where wholesale and retail trade are the dominant economic activities, close to the Old Taxi Park and St Balikuddembe Market

September PMI data shows Uganda’s private sector strengthened for the first time in four months

Inflation ticks up, but underlying prices are muted

Vegetables and fruit on a stall at Mercat de la Boqueria, Barcelona.

Inflation picked up pace in September, rising to its highest level in 14 months, driven by a surge in food crop and related item prices

Stanbic Uganda Holdings Ltd: Book closure and interim dividend payment

Crested Towers in Kampala, with the shorter tower housing offices of Stanbic Bank

An interim dividend of UGX 2.73 per share for the year 2025 has been approved by the Board of Stanbic Uganda Holdings Ltd and is hereby declared

Coffee prices drag down earnings despite export uptick

Uganda’s coffee exports rose at the slowest pace in nine months in August, while falling global prices—especially for robusta beans—led to the first drop in earnings since March 2024

Focusing on M23 allows ADF insurgents to expand in eastern DRC

UPDF combat vehicles and soldiers cross to Burasi in the Democratic Republic of Congo using the newly installed ferry at the Haibale landing point on the Semliki River in February 2022. Presiding over the opening ceremony at the Burasi landing site in DRC, the Operation Shujja commander, Major General Kayanja Muhanga, noted that the crossing into Congo using this access route marks the beginning of the second phase of the operation. Maj. Gen. Kayanja revealed that the road from Burasi to Boga, a stretch of about 50km that was previously impassable, is being worked on jointly by both the UPDF and the FARDC (Congolese national army)."

The capture of Goma and Bukavu by the M23 early this year has put further strain on the DRC’s already weak national army, creating a security vacuum that the ADF has exploited to expand its operations

Uganda’s deal with the US to take asylum seekers: what is behind it, and what is at stake?

A group of people, mostly women, watch a woman place a steaming saucepan on a stove.

Uganda has agreed to accept an unspecified number of third-country nationals who have applied for asylum in the US, but who cannot return home due to safety concerns

Stanbic Incubator and GIZ launch capacity-building programme for women-led green enterprises

A man is standing on a dais, facing the camera and gesturing towards someone in the audience, who has their back to the camera.

To support women entrepreneurs in Uganda’s green economy, Stanbic Business Incubator Limited has teamed up with the German development agency GIZ to launch a new four-month training programme

Despite dwindling funds, Uganda continues to offer sanctuary to refugees

Children attending school in a refugee settlement in northwestern Uganda in 2019. Some children are sitting on a mat at the front of the class, while others are seated at wooden desks. A female teacher is leading the crowded class.

The UNHCR recently reported that, by the end of July, it only had sufficient resources to support fewer than 18,000 individuals with cash and essential relief items for just two months, at the current rate of new arrivals

Private sector activity slows in August

Street scene outside a luggage shop in downtown Kampala

Business activity in Uganda’s private sector continued to expand in August, albeit at a slower pace, according to the latest purchasing managers’ index produced by S&P Global

DRC’s latest peace deal is unravelling, and it isn’t the first. What is going wrong?

Rwanda's President Paul Kagame meets with President Félix Tshisekedi of the Democratic Republic of Congo Ahead of the 74th UN General Assembly, 24 September 2019

Despite almost three decades of peace efforts and interventions at local, regional and international levels, the mineral-rich east of the country remains unstable