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Bank of Baroda executive director resigns

Bank of Baroda's headquarters on Kampala road, Kampala

Bank of Baroda Uganda on Wednesday announced the resignation of its executive director, Bhati Prithvi Singh, after more than four years in the role

President Museveni bids farewell to outgoing World Bank country manager, Mukami Kariuki

President Yoweri Museveni is pictured with Mukami Kariuki (right), the outgoing World Bank country manager for Uganda, and Qimiao Fan (second from left), the World Bank country director for Kenya, Rwanda, Somalia and Uganda, at State House in Entebbe on 28 July 2025. To the feft of Mr Fan is an unidentified woman.

Ms Kariuki, who assumed her role on 1 August 2021, has led the World Bank’s engagement with the Ugandan government, overseeing the implementation of key development programmes

Land conflicts: do populist state measures actually fix problems?

Uganda's president Yoweri Museveni, gestures, while smiling, and seated, in an October 2023 photo

Do populist state measures – especially when launched by a politically powerful leader – deliver improvements for the stated beneficiaries?

Coffee exports rose to a fresh high in June, report says

Jute bags containing coffee beans in a café storage area

Uganda’s coffee exports hit a new record in June, driven by a good harvest in most coffee-growing regions, particularly in the Greater Masaka area and the south-west of the country

Enimiro gets One Acre Ventures investment

Coffee beans being inspected in rural ugandaA man inspects coffee beans on a drying bed in a rural area Uganda; next to him are three other men

One Acre Ventures said it will invest in Enimiro Uganda, an agribusiness company that works with smallholder farmers, to finance its expansion into coffee processing

Meet the eight finalists of the 10th edition of the Stanbic Nationals Championship

A student explains their prototype to the Stanbic NSC implementation team during an appraisal visit earlier this week. The implementation team, from Stanbic Bank Uganda, have their backs to the camera

Excitement and anticipation are mounting as eight outstanding schools from across Uganda prepare for the grand finale of the 2025 Stanbic National Schools Championship

MTN Uganda: Post extraordinary general meeting notice

MTN Uganda Limited hereby informs its shareholders and the general public that the following resolution was passed at the company’s hybrid extraordinary general meeting on Tuesday, 22 July 2025

Burn Manufacturing secures funding from AfDB to expand electric cooking in East and Southern Africa

A woman sits in a kitchen while someone else tends to a wood-fired, open, three-stone stove behind her.

Burn Manufacturing, the Kenyan producer of clean cookstoves and carbon developer, has secured a $4mn grant from the African Development Bank to roll out electric cooking solutions in Uganda, Kenya, and Zambia

Experts say new UN declaration must protect rights of world’s poorest to nutritional benefits of milk and meat

A group of cows grazing in a green field during the day

Experts have warned that a draft UN declaration aimed at eliminating trans-fatty acids from global diets could inadvertently deny the world’s poorest people the nutritional benefits of milk and meat

Why bartering Africa’s minerals for security is a bad idea

Four men working in an open-pit mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo

A US-brokered peace deal between the DRC and Rwanda binds the two nations in a worrying arrangement: one where a country signs away its mineral resources to a superpower in return for vague promises of security