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    Forum for Democratic Change

    A Photo collage of NRM’s Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, NUP’s Robert Kyagulanyi, and FDC’s Nandala Mafabi. Uganda enters election season with big promises, but the real test is whether manifestos align with NDP IV and the 10x10 strategy—now the nation’s roadmap for disciplined, transformative economic growth.

    Manifestos vs Vision: Do Presidential Candidates Align with the 10x Growth Strategy?

    Jeff WintersThe Big StoryNovember 13, 2025November 17, 2025

    Every election season in Uganda blooms with promises of transformation. Candidates unfurl manifestos brimming with pledges to create jobs, industrialize, end poverty, and modernize agriculture. Yet beneath the familiar rhetoric…

    A collage of NRM’s President Museveni, NUP’s Robert Kyagulanyi, and FDC’s Nandala Mafabi. The three parties’ manifestos promise on business differ. For large contractors and foreign investors, NRM’s continuity and scale may feel safest. For SMEs and startups, NUP’s promise of a level playing field is potentially the most transformative, while for agribusiness and rural financiers, FDC’s cooperative-driven model could expand markets and liquidity.

    Manifesto Economics: Which Promises Survive Contact with Uganda’s Business Reality?

    Jeff WintersThe Big StoryOctober 22, 2025October 22, 2025

    Markets in downtown Kampala remain lively, yet many traders quietly admit sales are slowing and loan costs are biting harder. It is the classic squeeze: weak consumer demand meeting tighter…

    Central to the FDC manifesto is a sharp critique of Uganda’s rising public debt, which the party traces to under UGX 20 trillion in 2016, but had by June 2024 risen to more than UGX 90 trillion.

    FDC Puts Forward a Production-Led Vision for Uganda’s Economy

    CEO East Africa MagazineThe Big StoryOctober 1, 2025October 10, 2025

    When the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) unveiled its 2026–2031 manifesto, attention quickly turned to its economic agenda. The party, one of Uganda’s largest opposition forces, is promising what it…

    UGANDANS EXCELLING ABROAD: Anne Mugisha celebrates 10 years at United Nations

    CEO East Africa MagazineNews & AnalysisJune 30, 2022July 18, 2022

    Anne Mugisha is the Communicator, Programs Manager & Chief Information Support Management at United Nations – UNSOS “Ten years today! How did that happen? Yup! It is my ten-year anniversary…

    PROFILE: Anita Among – Uganda’s second female speaker of Parliament since independence

    CEO ReporterNews & AnalysisPolitics & GovermentWomen In LeadershipMarch 31, 2022April 1, 2022

    On March 20, 2022, Uganda was saddened by the death news of Speaker of Parliament, Jacob Oulanyah who succumbed to cancer in Seattle, USA. Hardly a week after, in respect…

    FDC’s Amuriat Promises Five Percent of Oil Revenue to Bunyoro Kingdom

    URNThe Big StoryNovember 27, 2020

    Patrick Amuriat Oboi, the Forum for Democratic Change (FDC) Presidential candidate has promised to offer 5 percent of the Oil revenue to Bunyoro Kitara Kingdom if he is elected President…

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