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New Vision (Free subscription) | yesterday
By David Muwanga ROOFINGS expects $10m (about sh16.3b) from exports to southern Sudan this year, the chief executive officer, Sikander Lalani, has predicted. Lalani said the building materials manufacturer had already exported items worth $4.7m (sh7.6b) to southern Sudan in the first six months of this year. “There is a lot of construction and reconstruction going on in southern Sudan,”...
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New Vision (Free subscription) | yesterday
By David Muwanga THE Rwanda government is seeking a third national telecom operator after the duopoly period for the current operators expired in June. The Rwanda Utilities Regulatory Agency (RURA) in a statement explained that Rwandatel and MTN Rwandacel were granted duolopoly licences in 2003 to provide fixed and mobile communications. “The duopoly expired in June and the government...
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New Vision (Free subscription) | 07/17/2008
By David Muwanga and Florence Ntegeka UGANDA needs more investors in renewable energy since it protects the environment, investment state minister, Prof. Semakula Kiwanuka, has said. “The rising prices of fossil fuels worldwide make it imperative for the Government to promote development and utilisation of renewable energy and the associated technologies,” Kiwanuka said. “The technologies...
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New Vision (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
MICROSOFT and a local firm, Comtel Integrators Africa, have signed a sh2b agreement to develop localised software and provide related services, writes David Muwanga.“We are investing sh2b in this project that will produce software for the whole of sub-Saharan Africa and the medium information technology (IT) market in the region,” Microsoft’s director for communications, John Creed, said....
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All Africa (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
East Africa: Kagame Takes Over EAC Chair (Kampala)Els De Temmerman And David Muwanga in KigaliKampalaRwandan President Paul Kagame has been inaugurated as the new chairman of the Summit of Heads of State of the East African Community.In an official ceremony marking the ninth Summit of the EAC Heads of State in Kigali on Thursday night, he replaced President Yoweri Museveni, who served...
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New Vision (Free subscription) | 06/26/2008
By David Muwanga and Els De Temmermanin Kigali President Yoweri Museveni yesterday cited peace, security, infrastructure and tax incentives as some of the key factors to improve the business climate in East Africa. In a remarkable plea for private enterprise, the former Marxist revolutionary also called for less red tape and intervention by politicians and bureaucrats. He was opening...
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New Vision (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
THE private sector of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) should be facilitated to sign agreements for open visa policies.
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New Vision (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
By David Muwanga A TOTAL OF 417 business- people and institutions from 35 countries are to participate in the first East African Investment Conference in Kigali, Rwanda. The conference, which will be held under the theme: “Leveraging the East African Market through Trade and Investment,” is aimed at promoting business opportunities in the East African Community (EAC). The conference,...
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New Vision (Free subscription) | 06/15/2008
By David Muwanga THE Uganda Revenue Authority (URA) will effective this week start attaching properties of tax defaulters. “The tax defaulters we are targeting are those who delayed to take advantage of the tax amnesty that was given by the finance ministry in the current financial year,” Paul Kyeyune, the public and corporate affairs manager, said. The amnesty run from July 1 to December...
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New Vision (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
By David Muwanga UGANDA Investment Authority (UIA) has signed a sh9.7b contract with Spencon Services Limited to construct the road network in the Kampala Business and Industrial Park in Namanve near Kampala. The park would be occupied by light-clean industries. It has been zoned, with the commercial area close to Jinja Road. It will have exhibition areas, shopping malls, petrol stations...
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New Vision (Free subscription) | 06/04/2008
By David Muwanga THE East African Community (EAC) should develop a policy to address barriers to free movement of services, the executive director of the Private Sector Foundation (PSFU), Gabriel Hatega, has suggested. “Lack of this policy would hurt the sector since there are several barriers to free movement of services that include requirements for work permits and local incorporation...
