Anti-Homosexuality Act Archives

LIFE AFTER AGOA BAN⎮Agnes Netunze, Uganda’s top leather products exporter speaks out on her next move

by Paul MurungiNews & Analysis The Big Story Women in Business Women In LeadershipMay 11, 2024May 17, 2024

Arise Kollections manufactures and distributes high-end leather and textile fashion accessories such as handbags, footwear, jewellery, and hand-woven items to several foreign and local markets. Mrs. Kitumba’s luck came in 2012 when she met Ms Susan Muhwezi, former Uganda AGOA Country Head. She admits that her success under AGOA was born out…

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Uganda Shilling drops more than UGX130 in 2 days after World Bank reacts to Anti-Homosexuality Act

by Muhereza KyamuteteraIndustry & Analysis The Big StoryAugust 10, 2023August 10, 2023

As Uganda comes to terms with the suspension by the World Bank of any future lending to the country over its recent passing of the Anti-Homosexuality Act (AHA) and what that could mean to a number of Bank-funded infrastructure and social service projects, another victim of the expected international pushback…

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