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Bethuel Karanja, Head Global Markets, Stanbic Bank Uganda.

How Uganda’s economy can withstand global turmoil

By Bethuel Karanja From Washington to Beijing, the global economic weather is turning unpredictable. Trade rules that once anchored international commerce are fraying under the strain of protectionism, geopolitical rivalry and economic

February 10, 2026

Business & Markets·Economy & Policy·Thought Leadership

A photo collage of President Museveni, and U.S Secretary of State, Marco Rubio. The two held a phone conversation on trade, commercial and migration cooperation.

U.S. Courts Museveni to Deepen Commercial and Trade Ties with Uganda

The United States of America has moved to reset relations with Uganda, with Secretary of State Marco Rubio speaking by phone with President Yoweri Museveni about “opportunities to deepen U.S.–Uganda cooperation on

August 22, 2025

The Big Story

Agnes Neptune with clients at her Buto, Bweyogerere factory outlet.

LIFE AFTER AGOA BAN⎮Agnes Netunze, Uganda’s top leather products exporter speaks out on her next move

Arise Kollections manufactures and distributes high-end leather and textile fashion accessories such as handbags, footwear, jewellery, and hand-woven items to several foreign and local markets. Mrs. Kitumba’s luck came in 2012 when she

May 11, 2024

News & Analysis·The Big Story·Women In Leadership

Ugandan President, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni (left) and U.S. President, Joe Biden.

Beyond U.S. threats to end AGOA and a defiant Museveni⏤ a detailed analysis of the U.S.-Uganda trade ties. Can Uganda survive without American business?

U.S. – Uganda bilateral relations took a nosedive at the end of October when U.S. President Joe Biden issued a statement that seeks to terminate Uganda’s membership under the Africa Growth and

November 30, 2023

Business & Markets·Politics & Goverment·The Big Story

Samuel Obedgiu is an Agricultural Scientist and Environmental Activist

Geopolitics and Africa’s Inability to be Food Independent: The Paradox with WTO

By Samuel Obedgiu Agricultural Scientist and Environmental Activist Recently, the BBC put up a tweet which carried a story about how “a ship carrying Ukrainian grain had docked in the east African

October 3, 2022

News & Analysis

Mivumba clothes: Will ‘tiny’ Rwanda outlast ‘mighty’ America’s bullying?

Is Rwanda just obstinate? Or is there something that the Kigali administration is seeing in this used clothes ban that the rest of the regional lot can’t? What is it that is

April 4, 2018

The Big Story