For quite a long time, the sprawling and magnificent Metroplex Shopping Mall, in the upscale Naalya suburb along the Kampala Northern By-Pass highway on the outskirts of Kampala city, has raised a lot of questions about its viability as a major real estate investment. A recent online debate on the X social media platform placed the shopping mall into a critical…
By Cem Perdar In February and March 2021, I visited Nigeria and Kenya respectively for business purposes. Among the important things that caught my attention during these visits was the…
By Michael Jjingo Change is real! Many people doubted the migrating of Television programs from analogue to digital, even after appreciating the spin offs that were to follow; crystal clear…
Uganda’s merchandise trade deficit widened by 50% from USD 269.25 million in April 2021 to USD 322.17 million in May 2021, reflecting stronger import demand. Compared to May 2020, the…
By Ronnie Mukundane Labour externalization was one of the subsectors of Uganda’s economy that were severely hit by the resurgent Covid-19. First, Uganda’s main destination countries for migrant workers like…
The following is a list of the banks ranked by total assets as of 31 December 2020. Balance sheet information is from financial statements published by the banks in March and April
The Covid-19 pandemic saw a rise in bad debts and provisions for loan losses. But this had little effect on balance sheets as banks turned from loans to other assets
Mobile money was the proverbial financial mask shiedling the entire country when movement was at its lowest and fear of infection at its highest. The life altering announcement by President…
By Nathan Were It has been one year since the Covid-19 pandemic hit the world. It has destroyed livelihoods, shuttered people’s dreams, and sunk businesses. The containment measures that followed…
It is now one year since you assumed leadership of the Ugandan unit of Coca-Cola Beverages Africa – what has the year been like? My time in Uganda so far…
