Infrastructure

EconomyInfrastructure

Uganda gets $252.8mn road construction loan from African Development Bank

Roads, both to international borders, will help connect rural areas and facilitate regional integration
The African Development Bank headquarters building in Abidjan, Ivory Coast
Digital EconomyInfrastructurePolitics & PolicyTechnology sector

Uganda seeks $146mn Chinese loan for national fibre-optic project

China also funded the first three phases of the national fibre-optic backbone infrastructure project
Servers in a data centre
Energy, Oil & GasInfrastructure

Mahathi Infra Uganda secures investment from the Africa Finance Corporation

Investment by the Lagos-based multilateral development finance institution will bring the Lake Victoria fuel transportation project closer to completion
A self-propelled barge on a lake
InfrastructurePolitics & Policy

Africa’s free-trade area: removing tariffs not enough to unlock growth

Tariffs – which are already low – are not the main impediment to continental trade, faster industrialisation, and structural transformation in Africa
Uganda's border with Kenya at Busia
InfrastructureOpinionPolitics & Policy

Getting the right institutions in place to run Africa’s rapidly growing cities

Historically, cities have been the drivers of productivity and engines of economic growth. But urbanisation in many sub-Saharan African countries is not delivering the benefits of people and firms clustering together
Downtown Kampala
Energy, Oil & GasInfrastructure

Journey to oil production mired in uncertainty as govt and oil firms haggle over pipeline

By now, Uganda, Tanzania and the oil companies active in the former's petroleum sector should have finalised negotiations on the development, construction, and operation of the Uganda-Tanzania crude oil pipeline
Map showing the East African Crude Oil Export Pipeline route.
EconomyInfrastructure

Uganda’s 2017/18 economic growth beats forecasts

Uganda's gross domestic product growth rebounded strongly in the 2017/2018 financial year on the strength of a pick-up in investments and exports, according to the World Bank
A mobile phone mast
Infrastructure

Eight Chinese, European consortiums bid for $1bn Kampala-Jinja road deal

Eight consortiums of mostly Chinese and European companies on Monday submitted bids to the Uganda National Roads Authority for pre-qualification to construct the proposed Kampala-Jinja Expressway.
The Entebbe Expressway, which was officially launched this year
EconomyInfrastructurePolitics & Policy

Museveni bullish about economy in State of the Nation address

President Museveni said the economy will grow faster in the next fiscal year because of his government’s sustained investment in physical infrastructure