A hungry nation with failed agricultural promises and policies.

Our exceptional climatic conditions, fertile soils and two planting seasons make us such a potential agricultural rich country. We live in a country where 75 percent of our citizens male, female and youth are engaged in agriculture-related businesses. 72 percent of our sisters, wives and mothers are employed in agriculture and this even gets higher for the rural Ugandan woman.

The Oil Presidential Handshake a true image of a Patronage led economy.

The quality of a country’s policies and governance depends on the strength of its Institutions and those appointed to led in those institutions. The ongoing Parliamentary inquiry into the Presidential Handshake tells you how easy it is for a patronage system to misuse institutions to share or loot resources meant for the entire nation. As…

And my thoughts on oil: Curse or Blessing? – Nandala Mafabi

In Uganda, corruption is on the increase despite the extensive institutional mechanisms aimed at curtailing the vice because of the lack of will by those in power. Uganda is now the second most corrupt country in East Africa after Burundi

Energy finds in Africa highlight shifts in sector – DHL report.

This is according to Steve Harley, President of the Energy Sector, for DHL Customer Solutions & Innovations (http://www.dhl.com). Harley says that these energy finds provide many possibilities for local businesses, to echo the express operator’s own marked increase in the transportation of energy-related material in the region. Harley says that forecasts expect African oil supply…

CMT’s 2nd Palm Oil Africa Explores If Africa is Ready to Emerge as the Next Palm Oil Hub

Centre for Management Technology, with supporters OLAM and Gabonese Ministry of Agriculture will host 2nd Palm Oil Africa on 17-19 Oct, 2013 in Libreville, Gabon, a fast emerging key palm oil investment hub. It will unravel challenges as Gabon aspires to become the largest agriculture producer by 2020. Africa is tipped to emerge as a…

Oil Proceeds will be kept in the Consolidated Fund – Maria Kiwanuka

Today I was privileged to be part of the conference organized by Global Rights Alert and Oil in Uganda on Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative – EITI a mechanism that fosters transparency amongst oil companies and oil producing countries. This is meant to create an avenue where the people of a given country see through the…