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    A Pebuu field supervisor supports an authorised bank agent at a local market, a scene that captures the quiet infrastructure behind Uganda’s agent banking boom. As trillions of shillings move through kiosks and trading centres each year, Pebuu’s on-the-ground teams ensure compliance, visibility, and operational discipline across Africa’s expanding last-mile financial networks.

    Who is Pebuu: The Ugandan Company Quietly Powering Africa’s Largest Agent Banking Networks

    Muhereza KyamuteteraThe Big StoryMarch 4, 2026March 4, 2026

    Across Africa, the banking hall is no longer the epicentre of financial services. It is the agent kiosk in a trading centre in Arua. The POS terminal inside a hardware…

    Steady Vision, Bold Growth: Peter Makhanu’s Four-Decade Insurance Journey and the Rise of Liberty Uganda

    CEO East Africa MagazineThe Big StoryMarch 2, 2026March 2, 2026

    By Sharon Kyatusimiire After more than four decades in insurance, a journey that began in 1984, Peter Makhanu speaks with the composure of a man who has seen cycles, crises,…

    Olive Zaitun Kigongo (left) and Alison Gallagher, mother and widow of the late Cedric Ndilima Babu, respectively, are seeking court declarations that KCB breached its mortgage agreement, an injunction blocking foreclosure of the Kololo condominium, a write-off of the outstanding loan, return of the property title, damages, and legal costs.

    Olive Kigongo, Cedric Babu’s Widow and KCB Bank in UGX 1.2b Kololo Property Fight

    CEO East Africa MagazineThe Big StoryFebruary 20, 2026February 24, 2026

    A high-value property in Kololo purchased at a value of UGX 1.2 billion has become the subject of a legal showdown between businesswoman Olive Zaitun Kigongo, her co-administrator Alison Gallagher,…

    With only a few days’ fuel in reserve, limited storage leaves Uganda exposed to shipment delays, regional disruptions, and sudden price shocks, turning minor supply hiccups into national energy crises.

    How Storage Gaps Continue to Threaten Uganda’s Fuel Security

    Jeff WintersThe Big StoryFebruary 3, 2026February 3, 2026

    Fuel supply is working better than it used to, but only just, according to data from the Office of the Auditor General.   The numbers suggest progress, yet they also…

    Chairman and Director Conflict Resolution Tim Fletcher, CEO and Managing Partner Brent Williams, and Kenya Managing Partner Sammy Ndolo anchor Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr’s rise in in both South Africa and East Africa, combining strategic leadership, execution discipline, and local insight as the firm quietly steers the region’s most complex, multibillion-dollar cross-border transactions.

    Who is Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr, the law firm advising the $3 bilion Vodacom-Safaricom and Nedbank-NCBA Bank Deals?

    Jeff WintersThe Big StoryJanuary 30, 2026January 30, 2026

    When two of East Africa’s largest corporate transactions, together valued at nearly $3 billion, required legal advisers, the mandates converged on a single firm. That firm is Cliffe Dekker Hofmeyr…

    Giles Aijukwe, CEO of Letshego Uganda says that research only matters when it changes something. He notes that Insights must shape products, pricing, communication, and customer experience, not sit idle in reports.

    Listening Before Launching: How Research and Gen Z Insights are Shaping Letshego Uganda’s Next Chapter

    CEO East Africa MagazineBanking & Financial ServicesJanuary 29, 2026January 29, 2026

    Most financial products do not fail because they are poorly designed. They fail because they are launched before institutions truly understand the people they are meant to serve. Uganda is…

    The Tax Appeals Tribunal has upheld URA’s $100,000 penalty against TotalEnergies EP Uganda for delayed transfer-pricing disclosures, affirming enforceable audit deadlines. The decision signals tougher scrutiny for multinationals in the extractives sector as commercial oil production nears.

    TotalEnergies EP Hit With $100,000 Penalty Over Delayed Tax Audit Disclosures in Uganda

    CEO East Africa MagazineThe Big StoryDecember 22, 2025December 22, 2025

    The Tax Appeals Tribunal has upheld a $100,000 (UGX357 million) penalty imposed on TotalEnergies EP by Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) for failing to provide transfer pricing information within prescribed timelines…

    Saving Smart: Stanbic’s Israel Arinaitwe on How Ugandans Can Build Wealth from Any Income Level

    CEO East Africa MagazineBanking & Financial ServicesNews & AnalysisDecember 17, 2025December 17, 2025

    Stanbic Bank’s Head of Personal Banking, Israel Arinaitwe, often returns to a lesson Adam Smith captured in The Wealth of Nations: economic progress depends on a society’s stock of capital….

    Vodacom Tanzania’s first-half 2025/26 results show a business investing through earnings, not slowing down. While headline profit dipped slightly due to accelerated network investment, underlying performance tells a stronger story—double-digit revenue growth, positive free cash flow, and surging digital and M-Pesa revenues. The numbers point to a company trading short-term optics for long-term competitive advantage.

    Vodacom Tanzania’s Philip Besiimire’s Three-Year Scorecard: Growth, Discipline, and Dividends

    CEO East Africa MagazineThe Big StoryDecember 17, 2025December 17, 2025

    Vodacom Tanzania has reported strong operational and financial momentum in the first half of 2025/26, underpinned by double-digit revenue growth, expanding cash flows, and accelerating performance in its core digital…

    Uganda Airlines, Jenifer Bamuturaki, and the reckoning of 2025

    Paul MurungiEast AfricaThe Big StoryDecember 15, 2025March 3, 2026

    When veteran journalist Andrew Mwenda posted a video of weary passengers stranded at Entebbe International Airport, his words cut deeper than the images themselves. “The tragedy happening at Uganda Airlines…

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