Government has taken a decisive step toward digital sovereignty with the launch of the National IP Peering Exchange. The platform is expected to reduce internet costs, improve speeds, and keep...
The Public Relations Association of Uganda (PRAU) has successfully held its 50th Annual General Meeting (AGM), marking a significant milestone in its journey of advancing public relations excellence in Uganda....
By Ankit Jangla, Bruno Kalibbala and Bruno Edwin Amanya The Excise Duty (Amendment) Bill, 2026 introduces a series of revisions to the rates applicable to various excisable goods and services....
By Ankit Jangla, Bruno Kalibbala and Bruno Edwin Amanya The Ugandan tax landscape is on the brink of a significant transformation. With the tabling of the Income Tax (Amendment) Bill,...
By Philip Karugaba and Shaidu Mafabi As Ugandan Advocates, we have watched with a mixture of admiration and envy as our Kenyan neighbours conduct their judicial appointment processes in the...
The story of Bro-Group is your typical Ugandan ingenuity and resilience against all odds, strung together by a dose of optimism for a better new day. In 1990, two brothers,…
FutureLink Technologies and gnuGrid CRB have launched Uganda’s first Savings and Credit Cooperative Organization (SACCO) Industry Dashboard and Credit Score. The innovative Dashboard allows SACCOs and Microfinance Institutions (MFIs) to refine their growth strategies and develop relevant financial products by utilising real-time industry data. Additionally, the SACCO Credit Score, created in partnership with gnuGrid CRB, streamlines the lending decision process…
dfcu Bank kicked off its customer engagement program this week with a customers’ dinner held at Hotel Triangle in Mbarara City. The initiative seeks to foster and cement meaningful connections with its clientele through a series of dynamic meaningful engagements aimed at propelling business growth. The engagements which started in Western Uganda, will be held countrywide, with emphasis on the…
Uganda’s banking industry in 2023 continued growing across all fundamentals such as deposits, lending, income as well as assets. It however grew slower than it did in 2022. Total industry…
The African Development Bank Group has commended Rwanda for making significant progress in the growth of its road network, education needs and energy access which has proved to have last mile impact on its citizens over the last five years. Rwanda is a beneficiary of the African Development Fund – the Bank Group’s concessional funding window – secured in November…
MultiChoice Africa Holdings B.V and Uganda’s Ministry of ICT and National Guidance have announced a new cooperation agreement geared towards establishing stronger partnerships in digitalisation, enhancing the local content sector, intellectual property rights protection and skills development within the applicable legal frameworks. The signing ceremony took place in Johannesburg, South Africa – for purposes of technical facilities benchmarking- and was…
Liquid Intelligent Technologies, a pan-African technology group has announced a distribution partner agreement (DPA) with Eutelsat Group that seeks to make the enterprise-grade Low Earth Orbit (LEO) satellite services available in Africa. The French Eutelsat Group is the world’s first satellite operator with an integrated Geostationary Equatorial Orbit and Low Earth Orbit infrastructure. On a continent where satellite technology is…
MTN Uganda has contributed UGX 42.5 billion to the Uganda Communications Commission’s (UCC) Universal Service and Access Fund, aimed at developing telecommunications services in underserved areas. The funding marks a significant increase from last year’s contribution of UGX 36 billion. At a press briefing held at the UCC headquarters in Bugolobi, a Kampala city suburb in the Ugandan capital on…
Godfrey Sebaana, the incoming Chief Executive Officer of Diamond Trust Bank Uganda (DTBU) has committed to building on the foundation left by his predecessor, Varghese Thambi to create an even…
It all started with a call from a recruitment agency executive. At the time, Thambi had spent 30 years in the banking industry, rising to become a Senior Vice President…
