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Coffee exports down on poor Elgon arabica crop

A woman harvests coffee berries in Yangambi, DR Congo

Coffee exports fell for the second consecutive month in December, with arabica shipments down due to a small crop in the Elgon region and rains that delayed drying of new harvests

Uganda Securities Exchange Weekly Trade Briefing

Bank of Baroda branch on Iganga Road in Jinja town, 19 May 2020

Activity on the Uganda Securities Exchange was higher over the week, with more stocks active than in the previous week and the volume traded increasing

Community Pass Customer Summit in Uganda paves way for digital and financial inclusion with Mastercard

Five panelists, including two men and three women, at Mastercard's 2nd Annual Community Pass Customer Summit in Kampala, January 2024. The summit brought together more than 90 public and private sector partners and more than 20 thought leaders dedicated to creating sustainable solutions for digital and financial inclusion across Africa and beyond.

Mastercard’s second annual Community Pass Customer Summit brought together over 100 partners from the public and private sectors dedicated to creating sustainable solutions for financial inclusion in Africa and beyond

South Africa’s genocide case against Israel: what to expect from the International Court of Justice

Naledi Mandisa Pandor, South Africa's foreign affairs ministers as of January 2024

Three cases alleging violations of the Genocide Convention have been brought before the ICJ, the first in 1993; of these, the ICJ has only issued a final judgment in one case, 14 years after it was initiated

Uganda Securities Exchange Weekly Trade Briefing

Umeme's service centre in Jinja town, on Lubas Road

In the first week of 2024, 3,002,860 shares of locally listed companies were traded on the Uganda Securities Exchange, compared to 271,066 shares in the last week of 2023

Electricity prices drop by 1.6%

A row of steel lattice electricity pylons carrying power lines across a rural landscape during dawn.

Electricity tariffs to be charged by Umeme for the first three months of the year reduce by an average of 1.6 per cent

The conceptual roots of the debt crisis in the Global South

A map displayed in a shop in the US shows pins and currencies left by visitors from around the world. Based on the number of pins on the map, it seems that most visitors are from the United States, followed by Western Europe.

Growing debt crisis in the Global South largely the result of a flawed multilateral system, and also reflects inadequacies of the dominant analytical and policy frameworks

TotalEnergies hires investment banker to review land acquisition for Uganda projects

Lionel Zinsou is a French-Beninese economist and investment banker, and was the Prime Minister of Benin from 2015 to 2016. He has been hired by TotalEnergies to conduct a review of its land acquisition programme in Uganda and Tanzania for the Tilenga and oil pipeline projects. His review will assess land acquisition procedures, consultation conditions, compensation and resettlement of affected people, and grievance redress mechanisms. It will also assess the efforts made by TotalEnergies EP Uganda and the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) to improve the livelihoods of those affected by the land acquisition.

TotalEnergies has appointed an economist and former prime minister of Benin to review its land acquisition programme in Uganda and Tanzania for the Tilenga and Pipeline projects

Economic activity gauge jumps as demand grows

An overhead view of Kikuubo, Kampala's busiest market

A measure of private sector activity rose to a six-month high in December as an increase in demand led to a rise in new orders and output

Coca-Cola in Africa: a long history of shrewd marketing and political alliances

Billboard in Kampala advertising Coca-Cola. While Africa is largely absent from books on Coca-Cola, the company’s imprint on the continent is enormous. It is present in every nation. The story of Coke's arrival in Africa in the early 1900s is deeply, and often surprisingly, intertwined with key moments in African history. These include the end of Apartheid in South Africa and the emergence of postcolonial African nations. Coca-Cola is also what it is in Africa today because it became local, bending to the will of Africans in everything from sports to music to healthcare.

Coke’s history in Africa is deeply and often surprisingly intertwined with key moments, including the emergence of postcolonial nations and the end of Apartheid in South Africa