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The economic pain caused by Covid-19 shows we need to reshape African cities

In Africa, lockdowns to control the spread of the Covid-19 coronavirus outbreak will hurt urban families -- most of who depend on informal sector jobs -- the most. Therefore, reshaping African cities in the pandemic’s aftermath to ensure they can be engines of economic growth in the future, will be key
Boda boda cyclists on a Kampala road
OpinionPolitics & Policy

Why don’t young people vote? In Uganda, the law doesn’t want them to

The elections take place in January/February 2021. Scores of young voters will be ineligible to vote – despite meeting the age requirement at the time of the election. Considering that over 75% of Uganda’s population is below 30, the implications could be significant
Four young men walking down a road in Kampala
Politics & Policy

Museveni replaces Doris Akol as URA head, appoints new BoU deputy governor

President Yoweri Museveni has replaced the head of the Uganda Revenue Authority, two years into her second term, and also appointed a new deputy governor for the Bank of Uganda to replace Louis Kasekende whose contract expired in January
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni
EconomyPolitics & Policy

Covid-19 could break Africa. But it also offers an opportunity to reboot the continent’s economic policies

Africa’s ability to use monetary and fiscal policies to mitigate the pandemic’s economic impact is limited. Whereas governments and central banks around the world have adopted robust and often unprecedented short-run stimulus measures, most African countries lack the policy space and capacity to do so, or are constrained by monetary arrangements that prevent them from implementing national strategies
Female worker in a garments factory
EconomyPolitics & Policy

Coronavirus: Uganda restricts travel abroad and public gatherings, to close schools

Uganda will close schools, restrict public gatherings and travel abroad in order to limit the spread of the coronavirus, which has not yet been confirmed in the country, President Yoweri Museveni announced Wednesday in a national address
Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni
Politics & Policy

Big African infrastructure projects often benefit global financiers at the expense of locals

There is evidence that the infrastructure that global financiers want to fund in Africa, such as toll roads, is not the kind that is most desperately needed by the majority of the population
Aerial photograph of the Kampala-Entebbe Expressway
EconomyPolitics & Policy

Coronavirus will hit vulnerable households particularly hard

For vulnerable families, lost income due to an outbreak can translate to spikes in poverty, missed meals for children, and reduced access to healthcare far beyond COVID-19
Coronavirus: Flyers at an American airport wearing facemasks
Politics & Policy

Rwanda confirms first case of coronavirus

An Indian citizen has tested positive for the COVID-19 coronavirus in Rwanda, six days after he entered the country, and is being treated at a health facility in isolation, Rwanda's health ministry said on Saturday
Government officials holding a meeting in a boardroom
Politics & Policy

IMF, World Bank set aside $60bn for coronavirus response in developing countries

The International Monetary Fund and the World Bank are allocating more than $60 billion in emergency funds for developing countries to combat the coronavirus outbreak
Politics & Policy

Uganda-Rwanda crisis: Tough choice for Museveni on Rwandan dissidents

Rwanda's Paul Kagame wants President Museveni to kick out Rwanda National Congress dissidents, or – in Kagame’s view – ‘terrorists’. Whether Museveni will do that is the question
Presidents Yoweri Museveni and Paul Kagame shake hands
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