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Ugandan agriculture exports face €2.75bn threat as EU tightens traceability rules

Shared-cost models between buyers and suppliers emerge as Uganda's best hope for meeting EU traceability standards that threaten access to lucrative coffee markets
Coffee beans being inspected in rural ugandaA man inspects coffee beans on a drying bed in a rural area Uganda; next to him are three other men
Opinion

EU/Africa: Modesty and realism should drive new partnership

The EU’s objective is to become Africa’s partner of choice, a goal set by European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen during our first visit to the AU’s headquarters in Addis Ababa in 2020
A young man welding items at a market in Bamako, Mali
Energy, Oil & Gas

Uganda among beneficiaries of EU’s €13m minerals grant

Uganda is among six beneficiaries of a €13m (Shs58b) grant from the European Union under the ACP-EU development minerals programme, a pioneering three-year, multi-country initiative, to build the profile and improve the management of development minerals in Africa, the Caribbean and the Pacific
Politics & Policy

Museveni mediation fails to bridge Economic Partnership Agreement differences

Negotiations for the agreement were finalised in October 2014, with Kenya and Rwanda acceding to it in 2015. Other EAC member states are yet to sign the agreement, with Tanzania the most vocal dissenter
Politics & Policy

Brexit triggered: here’s what happens now

Now that Theresa May, the British prime minister, has triggered Article 50, the process of formally negotiating Brexit can begin. Here’s what to expect in the next two years.
Politics & Policy

EU concerned over low social services spending, domestic borrowing

As development partners, we are committed to supporting Uganda’s efforts to generate private sector growth and decrease reliance on external funding. We have concerns however about whether the proposed budget is compatible with that scenario.