This is the largest loan that the country has borrowed from Beijing for a single project NEW ANALYSIS | MUSINGUZI BLANSHE | Uganda has started paying back a $1.44bn loan to China. However, the flagship 600MW Karuma hydropower project that the government paid for is not finished, an official tells The …

Rich countries shouldn’t export pesticides with active ingredients categorised as highly hazardous COMMENT | SILKE BOLLMOHR AND LAYLA LIEBETRAU | Pesticide residue can be found everywhere: in the air we breathe, the food we eat, and the water we drink. A growing body of evidence suggests that herbicides, insecticides, and …

WHO ups risk assessment | PATRICIA AKANKWATSA | As the Ebola cases in Uganda continue to surge, World Health Organization (WHO) warned on Nov.02 that Ebola’s arrival in the Ugandan capital highlighted the high risk of further spread of the deadly virus, calling on neighbouring countries to boost their preparedness. …

The answer why may be hidden in our skin SPECIAL HEALTH REPORT | THE INDEPENDENT | It’s impossible to hide from a female mosquito — she will hunt down any member of the human species by tracking our CO2 exhalations, body heat, and body odor. But some of us are …

A farmgate price of Shs 11,640 per kilo of parchment coffee, is “needed to enable living incomes for Arabica coffee farmers | THE INDEPENDENT | Fairtrade International has unveiled a living-income reference price for arabica coffee in Uganda, part of a broader effort to boost incomes for smallholder coffee farmers …

The policy frames these mega-projects as key to attracting the private sector interest needed to fuel economic growth, increase exports and alleviate poverty | GEDIMINAS LESUTIS | People’s responses to large infrastructure projects – railways, bridges, highways – are rarely neutral. To some, these projects represent powerful social and political …

The company manufactures antiretrovirals, artemisinin-based combination therapies (ACTs) and Hepatitis medicines to treat HIV/AIDS, malaria and Hepatitis | THE INDEPENDENT | Cipla Qaulity Chemicals Ltd, the East African nation’s drug manufacturer, has said net profits surged nearly five times to Shs 13.9 billion for the six months ending September driven …

MTN Uganda has declared an interim dividend of Shs 5.4 per share, a total of Shs 120.9billion, after its net profit surges 21% to Shs 292.7billion for the nine months ending 30th September 2022. | THE INDEPENDENT | This is the second time that MTN Uganda has declared interim dividends …

The hidden environmental, human cost and solutions to the Great Lakes regional peace, security, stability and development In 2007, a global consortium of 31 universities and colleges across the world took part in developing a 5-Seater plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, the Vision 200, targeting the Indian market. This innovation was …

Chinese President Xi Jinping opened the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China (CPC) by celebrating the destruction of Hong Kong’s autonomy, reiterating the goal of “reunification” with Taiwan, praising the zero-COVID policy, and stressing the importance of economic “self-reliance.” What he did not do was allow the …