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Uganda to Host Inaugural Development Finance Summit

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda is set to host the inaugural Uganda Development Finance Summit from September 1-2, 2025, at the Speke Resort Convention Centre in Kampala. Convened by the Uganda Development Bank (UDB), the country’s national Development Finance Institution, the summit will gather over 400 high-level delegates from …

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Uganda hosts EAC insurance regulators’ summit

Delegates acknowledged the region’s challenges — including limited public awareness, economic instability, and political unrest Kampala, Uganda |  THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda’s Insurance Regulatory Authority (IRA) hosted a week-long meeting of the East African Insurance Supervisors’ Association (EAISA), drawing senior insurance regulators from across the East African Community (EAC). The event, …

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Alliance of the ‘isolated’

The recent Putin-Kim summit has roots in an earlier 1950s alliance when Moscow and Pyongyang took on the US COMMENT | ROBERT BARNES | The Russian president, Vladimir Putin, recently spent two days in Pyongyang, meeting with the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, and signing a “comprehensive strategic partnership”. Few details …

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It begins with the soil

For Africa to feed its ever-growing population, govts must `listen to the soils’ ANALYSIS | RONALD MUSOKE | Africa’s soils upon which millions of smallholder farmers depend to grow food are dying and need urgent revival if they are to continue supporting the continent’s most important economic activity: agriculture. That was …

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Africa’s bold pledge: Leaders commit to triple continent’s fertilizer usage by 2034

Africa holds 60% of world’s arable land but struggles with crop productivity Nairobi, Kenya | RONALD MUSOKE | In a bid to eradicate persistent hunger across the continent, African leaders who met recently in Nairobi, pledged to increase domestic production and distribution of high-quality fertilizers by threefold within the next ten …

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Huawei holds Cloud Enterprise Summit for SMEs

Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | On May 2, tech giant, Huawei Technologies held a Cloud Enterprise Innovation and SME Summit 2024 in Kampala where over 100 industry startups, fintechs, venture capitals, government organizations, and key strategic partners unanimously agreed that SME development is only possible when technology is embraced. Charles …

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Italy unveils US$ 6bn plan for Africa

Speakers at inaugural Italy-Africa Summit demand treatment as equals NEWS ANALYSIS | RONALD MUSOKE | Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s call for “a new Italian partnership with Africa” has been put under tough scrutiny by analysts with some calling it a design for a new form of colonialism. On Jan. 29 …

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