Business / Trade in Uganda
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TURKEY, 2016/06/04
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Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan is on a four-day east African tour this week, during which he is visiting Kenya and Uganda. This trip is his tenth visit to a sub-Saharan African country in less than 18 months.
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BOTSWANA, 2016/05/13
The collapse of virtual borders is one of the majority remarkable things to have happened in our lifetimes. In the world of cyberspace, time and distance have become almost peripheral considerations at the same time as it comes to doing business. Services from software development to accounting can be delivered across the world in the blink of an eye. Next business leaders will struggle to imagine an era at the same time as communication was neither immediate nor virtually free.
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DJIBOUTI CITY, 2016/04/04
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KENYA, 2016/01/30
Uganda has the majority improved business environment in Africa, according to the Doing Business 2016 statement released in October by the World Bank.
The east African country’s improvment- measured on the basis of number of reforms and development in relieve of business scores - was outmatched only by Costa Rica globally. Its in general ranking rose to 122 (out of 189 nations), gaining 13 positions compared to 2014, thanks in large part to three business reforms throughout 2015.
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UGANDA, 2015/12/12
The Uganda-based Nordic Business Association was established three years ago to promote investments from Sweden, Norway, Finland, Iceland, and Denmark into the East African country. It offers support to new Nordic businesses entering the Ugandan market, in addition to consultancy, business development services and lobbying.
How we made it in Africa spoke to Rikke Adamsen, chairperson of the Nordic Business Association in Uganda, about the national of trade relations between the two regions, challenges Nordic business face in East Africa and how they can thrive.
How would you describe trade relations between East Africa and the Nordic region?
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ITALY, 2015/09/13
Mistrust has emerged part the East African Community partner states over Tanzania's commitment to the Economic Partnership Agreement that would give the region's goods business-free access to European markets.
Tanzania is likely to delay the signing and ratification of the EPA document on the grounds that it was rushed through. Dar es Salaam has threatened not to sign the transaction before its concerns on contentious issues are addressed. The region has until December 31 to sign the transaction with the European Union or go back to the negotiating table.
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UGANDA, 2015/01/30
Researchers are to 3-D print cheap, custom-made prosthetics for child amputees in the developing world next winning CAD$112,000 (US$90,000) from the Canadian government.
The money is coming through the Grand Challenges Canada fund, which supports health-related innovation in developing nations.
"There are additional than ten million people in the world with amputations, most of whom live in developing nations," says Mitch Wilkie, director of international programmes at Christian Blind Mission Canada (cbm), the NGO leading the project. "Around 300,000 of them are landmine survivors and this number is growing by about 26,000 people annually."
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UGANDA, 2013/07/11
KCB Uganda and the Uganda Small Scale Industries Association (USSIA) have entered an enterprise skills training partnership that will see over 260 disadvantaged rural and urban cottage industry entrepreneurs acquire skills to run their enterprises better.
The trainings which are aimed at boosting the 'Made in Uganda' brand target selected small-scale entrepreneurs, particularly the youth and women to enable them run businesses to produce local products.
'There is need to develop small, medium and the cottage industry as these contribute to increase of the economy in terms of employing the youth, women and nurturing a new crop of entrepreneurs in Uganda,' Albert Odongo, the KCB Uganda Managing Director, said in a press statement.
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SOUTH KOREA, 2013/06/01
Uganda and South Korea have signed a memorandum of cooperation on Thursday at the Blue Building, South Korea’s seat of power in the capital Seoul, the presidency said Friday in Kampala.The signing ceremony on Thursday was witnessed by President Yoweri Museveni and his host Guen Park.
Speaking at a luncheon hosted in his honour, President Museveni hailed the leaders of South Korea for transforming a backward national into a modern one.
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UGANDA, 2012/10/18
A storm is brewing between Uganda, Rwanda business communities and Kenyan Government over compensation following the 2008 Post Election related violence.
