Bank of Uganda (BoU) Governor Michael Atingi-Ego has advised Ugandans who believe they have been defrauded through mobile money to first report the matter to their service provider and, if…
Christine Aber wakes before the sun does in Northern Uganda. She sets up her modest stall and begins the daily grind – selling a humble mix of millet flour, rice,…
Imagine Amina, a young mother in Kampala, waiting every month for money sent by her brother working abroad. That money pays for her children’s school fees, medicine, and food. But…
Every month, tens of thousands of Ugandan households receive life-sustaining remittances from family members living abroad. These funds, estimated at over USD 1.4 billion annually according to the Bank of…
Uganda’s central bank is set to commence buying gold almost a year after announcing its domestic gold purchase programme, marking a significant shift in the country’s approach to reserve management…
As Uganda’s economy gains momentum in its post-pandemic rebound, a quiet contradiction is taking shape in the financial sector. On the surface, there’s cause for celebration. Mobile money volumes are…
In a fiscal climate where many economies are gasping under debt and tax collection fatigue, Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) has pulled off a remarkable feat. It has beaten its revenue…
Imagine a young software developer in Kampala. He’s just finished building a smart-contract application that could help farmers track produce payments without relying on brokers. He’s hopeful, energized, but frustrated….
Uganda’s biggest Fintech, MTN Mobile Money (MoMo), is moving out of the family home. Long treated as just another product line within the telecom’s machinery, MoMo is being carved out…
“Counting people should never cost a country its ability to make people count.” These words, first voiced during a 2015 keynote address by South African statistician Pali Lehohla at a…
