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    Nandala Mafabi

    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…

    Alliance for National Transformation, led by Gen Gregory Mugisha Muntu, promises to steer the country away from what it calls a “consumption-driven, debt-laden model” towards a production-led economy.

    ANT’s Bold Economic Plan: Jobs, Industry, and Inclusive Growth

    CEO East Africa MagazineThe Big StoryOctober 2, 2025October 10, 2025

    The Alliance for National Transformation (ANT) has an ambitious plan to reset Uganda’s economic trajectory. In its manifesto, the party, led by Gen Gregory Mugisha Muntu, promises to steer the…

    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…

    Parliament Directs Bigirimana to Publish lists of beneficiaries of unclaimed UGX18.3b bail cash

    Thembo Kahungu MisairiBanking & Financial ServicesApril 22, 2021April 22, 2021

    The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament has directed the Permanent Secretary of the Judiciary Pius Bigirimana to, with immediate effect, publish the lists of people whose bail cash totaling…

    Nandala Loses ICPAU Council Vote, Faces Off With Institute over License Renewal

    URNBanking & Financial ServicesJuly 31, 2020

    Budadiri West MP Nandala Mafabi has lost a vote to become a council member of the Institute of Certified Public Accountants of Uganda (ICPAU) on the technicality that his 2020…

    Bank of Uganda is not above the law and must be audited- Kadaga

    Muhereza KyamuteteraBusiness & MarketsLegal & JusticeNews In PicturesThe Big StoryThought LeadershipMay 17, 2018

    The Speaker of Parliament, Rt. Hon Rebecca Alitwala Kadaga has ordered that the forensic audit into bank of Uganda by the Auditor General of Bank of Uganda’s takeover of Crane…

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