By Our Reporter Emirates, which flies daily direct from Entebbe to Dubai, has promoted Commercial Manager Mohammad Al Attar to the role of Country Manager for Uganda. Al Attar, whose…
By Our Reporter After several months of a lull, concrete works have resumed at the 600MW Karuma Hydropower project. Works had been halted to examine probable causes and definitive remedies…
By Our Reporter Uganda Communications Commission (UCC) has stopped Airtel’s move to block incoming and outgoing calls to Uganda Telecom Limited (UTL) saying it affects customers and operators whom the…
By Juliet Hildah Namulundu. Dfcu Bank has commenced the integration of former Crane Bank assets and liabilities enabling it to serve both Dfcu and former Crane Bank customers across its…
By Philip Wafula Uncertainty and apprehension has gripped Crane Bank employees following the Bank’s take-over by Development Finance Company of Uganda (DFCU) Bank. On Friday 27th, while quoting Section 95…
By Juliet Hildah Namulundu. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) Managing Director (MD) Christine Lagarde arrived in the country yesterday ahead of her four-day visit to Uganda that ends this Friday…
By Our Reporter Hima Cement has broken ground on the construction of a US$ 40 million grinding station in Tororo with the plant scheduled to commence production in the first…
By Our Reporter The Up Accelerate program, a UK Aid-funded program launched last November, has selected four young start-up teams which will be supported to develop their ideas into transformative…
By Silvia Nyambura Egyptian firm Qalaa Holdings has confirmed that preliminary negotiations are ongoing with several prospective local and international investors for the sale of its stake in Rift Valley…
By Phillip Wafula Albert Saltson has been appointed the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Standard Chartered Bank Uganda. This follows the transfer of the bank’s former CEO Herman Kasekende…
