Industry & Trade

Africa is building a digital highway for cross-border trade after the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat and Ghanaian technology company Quest Ghana Limited signed a joint venture agreement …

Africa is putting US$3.1 billion behind one of the most practical requirements for making its continental free trade ambitions work: modernising the customs systems through which goods cross its borders. …

Uganda’s hospitality sector has added 181 new hotel rooms and suites with the official opening of Kampala Marriott Hotel in Nsambya, boosting the capital’s capacity to host business travellers, tourists …

Industrial property, led by warehouses, is fast becoming the most attractive segment of Uganda’s real estate sector, even as office space struggles with oversupply and retail landlords adjust to shifting …

President Museveni on Tuesday commissioned Roofings Group’s US$125 million (about Shs460 billion) Phase IV Cold Rolling Mill Complex at the Kampala Industrial and Business Park, a facility that doubles the …

Somewhere in the mountains of Wyoming this Friday, a man named Kevin Warsh will step up to a podium and start talking about payments, policy, and financial innovation. It sounds …

Wakiso district has emerged as the epicentre of Uganda’s real estate activity, with new data showing prices climbing sharply as demand spills over from Kampala into the surrounding metropolitan area. …

Why does a country that grows cotton still dress itself in other people’s discarded clothes? Why do used Japanese cars dominate Uganda’s roads, while refurbished phones have become a major …

It sounds counterintuitive. A 20-foot container can travel nearly 8,000 kilometres from Shanghai, China, to the Port of Mombasa for less than the cost of moving the same container roughly …