Kampala Cement: How a $100m Ugandan cement dream fell apart
detailed breakdown of the Kampala Cement collapse, tracking how 82 million dollars in debt, high transport costs from raw material locations and an internal boardroom rup...
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Tropical Bank pushes former minister Banyenzaki into tight corner over Shs 600m loan
The High Court has dismissed an application filed by Henry Banyenzaki, a former minister and MP, over a disagreement he has with Tropical Bank regarding a loan facility h...
Mbale factories create jobs for school dropouts
Before Mbale city fully wakes, the Mbale-Tirinyi road, which leads to Mbale-Sino Industrial Park, is alive with activity. Hundreds of young men and women move from either...
NWSC Restores Karuma Water Supply as PSC Inspects 600MW Power Plant
The National Water and Sewerage Corporation (NWSC) has announced the successful completion of emergency repair works on a key water transmission pipeline serving Karuma T...
Labour Day: Inside Mbale park’s daily influx of young workers
At the break of dawn, before Mbale City fully wakes, the Mbale-Kampala road, which leads to Mbale-Sino Industrial Park, is already alive.Thousands of young men and women...
South Korean grandmother, 90, jailed for laundering drug money
She was accused of laundering money for her son serving a prison sentence in Cambodia on drug trafficking chargesA court in South Korea sentenced a 90-year-old grandmothe...
Uganda’s impeding debt crisis
In a recent podcast of Bad Natives, I argued that there is a real risk of Uganda defaulting on her domestic bonds in two to three years. It makes little sense to judge a...
BREAKING! Gov’t Cracks Down On Constructors Employing Timber Composite Building Method in Kampala
The National Building Review Board, (NBRB) has intensified a crackdown on illegal construction in Greater Kampala Metropolitan, focusing mainly on the prohibited Steel Ti...
KARUMA CASH CRISIS! UEGCL Profits Drop, Debt Soars to 81.6% as Power Plants Rot —Who is Sleeping on the Job?
Eleven years at the helm. Billions borrowed. Mega dams commissioned with pomp and glory. Yet today, hard questions are exploding over the management of Uganda Electricity...
M7 EXPLODES @ KISOZI! Secrets why top Water Ministry, NEMA officials could soon be jobless
When President Yoweri Museveni summoned officials from the Ministry of Water and Environment and the National Environmental Management Authority (NEMA) to his Kisozi farm...