A decade ago, Africa’s fintech revolution began as a response to one of the continent’s most persistent challenges: access to finance. In 2011, only 23% of people in sub-Saharan Africa…
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,…
It’s just after sunrise in the hills of Kapchorwa, eastern Uganda. A smallholder farmer, barefoot and bent over with age, tends to her coffee shrubs. She’s been growing the crop…
“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…
For the past nine years, Siddy Latabu has been trading in fish, supplying silver fish and smoked fish in Kitgum Main Market to sellers in Kitgum and neighboring districts including;…
The last 24 months have been some of the most volatile and unpredictable for several African markets. From steep currency fluctuations, persistent inflationary pressures and oscillations in consumer expenditure. There…
PostBank Uganda driven by its purpose of Fostering Prosperity for Ugandans has completed UGX 6 billion disbursement of the first tranche of the GROW loan to 353 women entrepreneurs, a…
Over the past decade, the banking industry has been part of the digital age continuously adapting the latest technology innovations to redefine how customers interact with banks. The digital age,…
Finance Trust Bank has launched a UGX 23 billion kitty in GROW loans to over 3000 women during a financial literacy training program at UMA Multi-purpose hall in Kampala. Ms…
The 2024/2025 financial year is here and the Government’s fiscal strategy aims at attaining inclusive economic growth, while maintaining a stable macroeconomic environment and preserving debt sustainability; it will require sh72 trillion. As an infrastructure financing enthusiast, I am happy with the Government’s goal of achieving fiscal strategy through continued investment in public infrastructure for inclusive growth — that is…
