By Eriasa S. Mukiibi One issue that has preoccupied Ugandans since the launch of the East African common market is what they could sell to their regional counterparts in order to compete successfully. Dr. Bernabas Kiiza, an agricultural economist at Makerere University, believes the answer to this puzzling question is …
Read More »Fire outbreaks: Insurers divided on insuring informal businesses
By Eriasa S. Mukiibi Joseph Musoke is a distressed man. On Tuesday July 31, he woke up to the news that all the merchandise in his shop, which took him eleven years to build, had evaporated in a plume of smoke following the fire that gutted Kisekka Market that fateful …
Read More »Uganda faces telecom price war as Kenya, Tz, Rwanda cut call rates
By Eriasa S. Mukiibi Kenya has made drastic cuts in mobile telephone call tariffs, posing a huge challenge to her Great Lakes regional counterparts on how to cope with the competitiveness in the sector following the launch of the East African Common Market. Kenyans have been calling at an equivalent …
Read More »Bank systems leave homes unwanted
By Eriasa S. Mukiibi Real estate developers want banks to change mortgage rules Joseph Kironde’s house in Kansanga, an up-market residential suburb of Kampala, looks somewhat misplaced amid the storied multi-roomed properties behind high wall fences and fancy gates. Kironde’s house is a four-roomed affair, with whitewashed walls, sitting on …
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