World Bank blacklist forces Uganda to raid domestic money market to finance budget
The central bank, opposition politicians and government officials say soaring debt service costs have been eating into funds needed to finance critical needs. The extra borrowing will likely put pressure on interest rates, the ministry said.
Homosexuality, election fraud land Uganda, Zimbabwe leaders US stiff visa restrictions
In June, the US State Department imposed visa restrictions on Ugandan officials after the passage of the law. The State Department also previously put visa restrictions on Ugandan officials following the country’s 2021 elections, which it called “flawed.”
Weak currency, high taxes and high fuel cost shrink Kenya’s private sector activity further
The Federation of Kenya Employers said last month that 70,000 jobs have been lost in the past year due to the jump in business costs. The survey also pointed to a gloomy near-term, with only 17% of responding companies expecting growth.
UK home secretary arrives in Kigali, ready to sign controversial asylum treaty with Rwanda
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is under intense pressure to cut net migration, which hit a record 745,000 last year, and end the flow of asylum seekers who pay people smugglers for their Channel crossings, often in overcrowded, unseaworthy boats.
More than 70 killed, 5,600 rendered homeless by floods and landslides in Tanzania
Climate change is causing more intense and more frequent extreme weather events, according to climate scientists.
The flooding comes on the back of the worst drought to hit the region in 40 years. Dry soils are less able to absorb water, increasing the risk of flash flooding.
What’s the endgame of East African Community: East African federation or East African confederation?
When Ugandans voted 65 per cent for federal system of government in a nationwide constitutional change initiated by President Museveni’s National Resistance Movement (NRM) in the early 1990s, they sincerely wanted a federal government of Uganda.
Kenya’s doomsday cult leader to appeal 12 months jail sentence for illegal film production
Mackenzie’s lawyer James Mouko said he would appeal against the ruling. Local media reported Mackenzie was convicted and fined for a similar offence in 2017.
Crossdisciplinarity: Kenya’s bungling and bumbling minister needs hands-on-the-deck to drive new education curriculum
The prevailing confusion is so much so that even Education Cabinet Secretary, Prof Ezekiel Machogu, does not seem to understand the aims and objectives of the new education curriculum and how it should be midwifed to producing an all-round professionals capable of fitting in any work environment. CBC lays emphasis on versatility.
Kenya, Tanzania and Zambia among countries targeted by multilaterals for debt relief for nature conservation
Institutions have until Friday to confirm they will join, but those expected to do so also include the World Bank, European Investment Bank (EIB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), the Beijing-headquartered Asian Infrastructure Development Bank and a number of others, the sources added.
While in other countries environment is the centre-bolt of the economy and governance, it’s peripheral in Uganda
We know that it is the craze for industrialisation, simultaneously with the resurgence and proliferation of the nomadic-pastoral human energy system, that jointly pose the greatest danger to our diverse ecologies and agroecological systems of Uganda. In effect diverse ecologies and agroecological systems of Uganda constitute its environmental governance. If we enhance environmental governance, we automatically enhance the staying power of the diverse ecologies and agroecological systems of Uganda.
