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The World Bank Headquarters, Washington DC.

World Bank approves Shs182bn loan for Uganda’s desert locust response

May 21, 2020 Uganda Business News

The World Bank said on Thursday its board approved a low-interest loan to support Uganda’s desert locus response and strengthen its emergency response systems

Abidjan's central business district, with the headquarters of the African Development Bank visible

Coronavirus profiteers: Protecting Africa from vulture funds

May 20, 2020 Daniel D. Bradlow

Some $117 billion of Sub-Saharan African countries’ roughly $150n in long-term debt to private creditors is in the form of bonds, with debtor countries owing the bondholders about $8bn per year. But markets are clearly not confident that these countries will meet their obligations

Garden City Mall in Nairobi during the coronavirus outbreak

Lockdown update: Easing to begin next week

May 19, 2020 Uganda Business News

President Museveni said Tuesday that the lockdown easing he announced yesterday will not come into effect until a week later, after the health ministry issues guidelines on the face masks required to go out in public

Museveni lifts lockdown — or did he?

May 19, 2020 Uganda Business News

Going into President Museveni’s 18th speech on the Covid-19 pandemic, there was wide expectation that he would announce a relaxation of lockdown measures instituted in March and April

The army and violence: handling of coronavirus crisis hints at change

May 12, 2020 Sylvie Namwase

In recent months Uganda’s army has shown professionalism and discipline in dealing with a number of crises, including a desert locust invasion and a national electricity outage. The inter-agency COVID-19 taskforce is led by the army, although it was set up expressly to support the health ministry

Aid helps, but ensuring stable access to affordable food is more sustainable

April 19, 2020 Astrid R.N. Haas

Governments must focus on keeping food supply chains working during Covid-19 lockdowns, and ensure that sufficient food reaches urban markets and that it remains affordable

World Bank Group headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Africa’s big asks at this year’s IMF and World Bank spring meetings

April 16, 2020 Danny Bradlow

The scale of the economic onslaught wrought by the coronavirus pandemic will dominate discussions at the International Monetary Fund (IMF)/World Bank spring meetings scheduled to take place – for the first time ever virtually – on 17 to 19 April

The offices of the Ministry of Finance in Kampala.

Government to spend extra Shs304.4bn to counter coronavirus

April 3, 2020 Uganda Business News

Uganda will spend Shs304.4bn ($80.6m) over the next three months on its coronavirus pandemic response, according to a supplementary budget request presented to parliament this week

The economic pain caused by Covid-19 shows we need to reshape African cities

April 3, 2020 Astrid R.N. Haas

In Africa, lockdowns to control the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak will hurt urban families — most of who depend on informal sector jobs — the most. Therefore, reshaping African cities in the pandemic’s aftermath to ensure they can be engines of economic growth in the future, will be key

Why don’t young people vote? In Uganda, the law doesn’t want them to

March 31, 2020 Muneinazvo Kujeke

The elections take place in January/February 2021. Scores of young voters will be ineligible to vote – despite meeting the age requirement at the time of the election. Considering that over 75% of Uganda’s population is below 30, the implications could be significant