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MTN Mobile Money loans on track to reach Shs 2.5 trillion

MTN Mobile Money loans on track to reach Shs 2.5 trillion

2025 has been of both challenges and opportunities. We’ve continued to deepen access to our services and extend financial inclusion to the underserved. By the end of this year, we’re looking at over 14.5 million individual users, which is a significant jump from 13.8 million in 2024. Our targ

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Kadaga Pins Museveni’s Busoga Comeback on Sugarcane Prices, FPU Exit

Kadaga Pins Museveni’s Busoga Comeback on Sugarcane Prices, FPU Exit

Kadaga, who is heading Museveni’s vote-mobilisation team in Busoga, says one of the biggest challenges that affected the ruling party in 2021 was the sharp decline in sugarcane prices. At the time, prices fell to as low as 50,000 Shillings per tonne, forcing many farmers to either give away the

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Uganda targets $10 billion in coffee revenue with new industrial park

Uganda targets $10 billion in coffee revenue with new industrial park

Uganda’s coffee exports soared 38% in October 2025, reaching $185.56 million, driven by robust Robusta and Arabica shipments. Read the full report on top buyers and the $2.4 billion annual earningsKAMPALA, Uganda — President Yoweri Museveni has approved a 572 billion shilling investmen

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Inside Uganda’s billion-dollar struggle to quit charcoal

Inside Uganda’s billion-dollar struggle to quit charcoal

Uganda faces a multibillion-dollar deadlock as charcoal remains the primary fuel for 82 percent of Kampala households.KAMPALA, Uganda — Behind the heavy scent of woodsmoke that hangs over Kampala every evening lies a multibillion-dollar economic deadlock. Despite a flurry of executive or

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What Museveni, Bobi must show to win Kampala, Wakiso

What Museveni, Bobi must show to win Kampala, Wakiso

In Kampala and Wakiso, politics has narrowed to something brutally simple.Voters are no longer weighing ideology or history. They are measuring clinics without drugs, schools without teachers, roads that flood, and services that exist on paper but not in life.For President Museveni,

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UPC’s Akena calls for unity, vote protection in 2025 Christmas message

UPC’s Akena calls for unity, vote protection in 2025 Christmas message

Apac, Uganda: As Christians across the country marked Christmas with prayer and family gatherings, Hon Jimmy Akena, the President of the Uganda People’s Congress (UPC), spent the festive day fishing on the calm waters of Akokoro Sub-county before delivering a pointed political message that sign

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OPM starts beneficiary identification for UGX 76bn cattle restocking plan

OPM starts beneficiary identification for UGX 76bn cattle restocking plan

Reader modeOPM starts beneficiary identification for UGX 76bn cattle restocking plandailyexpress.co.ug9hCattle graze in northern Uganda, where communities affected by war and displacement await implementation of the UGX 76 billion national restocking programme.A

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Works Ministry Halts Motor Vehicle Registration over Network Outage

Works Ministry Halts Motor Vehicle Registration over Network Outage

The suspension comes during the Christmas holiday period, a typically busy time for vehicle transactions and licensing, and may delay registrations, transfers and issuance of number plates.Uganda’s Ministry of Works and Transport said on Wednesday it had temporarily suspended motor vehic

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Ssemakadde Defends Endorsing Bobi Wine, Lashes At Senior Lawyers

Ssemakadde Defends Endorsing Bobi Wine, Lashes At Senior Lawyers

Ssemakadde’s remarks drew attention not just for their content, but for their style—an unrelenting mixture of legal reasoning, political argument, and rhetorical flourish. He described the Bar’s failure to embrace citizen responsibility as “a collective failure of moral courage” and cal

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MP Ochwa pledges to lobby power extension to Aleles Bridge TC.

MP Ochwa pledges to lobby power extension to Aleles Bridge TC.

Pallisa, Uganda: Agule County Member of Parliament David Ochwa has pledged to lobby government for the extension of electricity to Aleles Bridge Trading Centre in Chelekura Sub-county, describing the area as a future commercial hub linking Pallisa and Ngora districts.Speaking to residents,

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