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How AI Is Reshaping the Graphic Design Profession — And Where It's Headed Next

Graphic design has weathered technological upheavals before — the shift from hand-lettering to desktop publishing, the move from print-first to digital-first t…

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Finding Its Wings: How Uganda Airlines Is Rebuilding Under Girma Wake

Finding Its Wings: How Uganda Airlines Is Rebuilding Under Girma Wake

Six months into his tenure, Wake has already put a mark on the airline that matches the scale of the ambition Uganda has long held for its national carrier.

From Bean Exporter to Global Brand: Inside Uganda's Bold Coffee Rebrand

From Bean Exporter to Global Brand: Inside Uganda's Bold Coffee Rebrand

That story changed on June 25, 2026, when the Ugandan government stood on a stage in Brussels and gave the country's coffee something it has never formally had: a name of its own.

Who Really Owns Uganda's Growth? A Hard Look at Foreign Investment and Profit Repatriation

Who Really Owns Uganda's Growth? A Hard Look at Foreign Investment and Profit Repatriation

The same BoU reports, tells a more complicated story: while foreign-owned companies operating in Uganda posted higher profits in 2024, they also sent record amounts of money back home.

The Tenfold Bet: Uganda's Blueprint for Greatness

The Tenfold Bet: Uganda's Blueprint for Greatness

Oil flows for the first time. Boeing jets are ordered. A railway is rising from the red earth. With the biggest budget in Uganda's history, Kampala has placed an extraordinary wager on the next fourteen years.

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"No More Sleep": Can Uganda's New Term Finally Defeat the Corruption That Has Stolen Its Development?

"No More Sleep": Can Uganda's New Term Finally Defeat the Corruption That Has Stolen Its Development?

Anyone who has followed Ugandan politics for the last two decades will recognise the rhythm. Museveni's fifth term carried the tagline Kisanja Hakuna Mchezo

Beijing's New Compass: What China's Global Governance White Paper Means for Uganda and the Global South

Beijing's New Compass: What China's Global Governance White Paper Means for Uganda and the Global South

The post-1945 order built around the United Nations, the Bretton Woods institutions & a rules-based system is buckling under the weight of great-power

Beyond Concrete and Steel: Turning Uganda's Mega-Projects Into a Human Development Dividend by 2031

Beyond Concrete and Steel: Turning Uganda's Mega-Projects Into a Human Development Dividend by 2031

Uganda is, without question, in the middle of the most ambitious building programme in its modern history. But a nation is not measured only by cranes

The Bold Steps Uganda Is About to Take After President Museveni's State of the Nation Address

The Bold Steps Uganda Is About to Take After President Museveni's State of the Nation Address

A nation that has already multiplied its economy seventeen times is now accelerating — driven by first oil, 50,000 megawatts, a continental railway, AFCON 2027 and the deepest regional trade integration in Uganda's history.

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Uganda Power List - Top 20 CEOs in Business

This list ranks Uganda's top 20 CEOs of top companies, assessed by the scale of the institutions they lead, the strategic significance of their sector, and the verifiable impact of their leadership decisions.

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01
Sylvia Mulinge
90%
02
Kenneth Mumba Kalifungwa
89%
03
Proscovia Nabbanja
89%
04
Fabian Kasi
88%
05
Dr. Sudhir Ruparelia
88%
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How AI Is Reshaping the Graphic Design Profession — And Where It's Headed Next

How AI Is Reshaping the Graphic Design Profession — And Where It's Headed Next

Graphic design has weathered technological upheavals before — the shift from hand-lettering to desktop publishing, the move from print-first to digital-first thinking. But the current wave, driven by generative AI, is different in kind

The Responsible Child Tax: Why Uganda's Most Reliable Sons and Daughters Are the Poorest Rich People You Know

The Responsible Child Tax: Why Uganda's Most Reliable Sons and Daughters Are the Poorest Rich People You Know

How an unwritten family contract is quietly stalling a generation's wealth and what it would take to rewrite it.

Don't Just Survive — Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad

Don't Just Survive — Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad

Twelve years ago, this piece was born at kLab in Kigali - Rwanda's flagship innovation hub and at the time one of the clearest proofs on the continent that a tech ecosystem could be built on purpose rather than by accident.

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Uganda's Oil Moment: The $15 Billion Bet That Could Make Africa's Newest Petrostate

Uganda's Oil Moment: The $15 Billion Bet That Could Make Africa's Newest Petrostate

After two decades of delay, Uganda is weeks from first oil. The numbers behind the boom show why this is no longer a story about barrels — it's a story about whether a $69 billion economy can absorb a windfall without losing itself in the process.

Uganda's $5 Billion Oil Pipeline Enters Final Stretch — What It Means for Every Ugandan

Uganda's $5 Billion Oil Pipeline Enters Final Stretch — What It Means for Every Ugandan

The East African Crude Oil Pipeline, stretching 1,443 kilometres from Hoima to Tanga, is now 78% complete. Today.ug travelled the route to examine the communities, contracts, and transformations reshaping Uganda's economic future.

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Kira Lights the Way: What Uganda's Electric Bus Story Can Learn From the World's Great Transport Revolutions

Kira Lights the Way: What Uganda's Electric Bus Story Can Learn From the World's Great Transport Revolutions

It is a statement that Uganda's own engineers, at Kiira Motors Corporation, can design and manufacture the machines that move a nation

The "5-Hour Rule": The Simple Daily Habit Behind the World's Richest Minds

The "5-Hour Rule": The Simple Daily Habit Behind the World's Richest Minds

The idea is almost embarrassingly simple. Set aside one hour a day, five days a week — five hours weekly, in total — purely for deliberate learning.

TikTok Overtakes WhatsApp as Uganda’s Most Popular Social Media Platform

TikTok Overtakes WhatsApp as Uganda’s Most Popular Social Media Platform

Uganda’s social media landscape is undergoing a major shift, with TikTok overtaking WhatsApp as the country’s most subscribed social media platform, according to the latest market data from the Uganda Communications Commission (UCC).

Uganda’s Digital Number Plate System: A Tale of Missed Opportunities!

Uganda’s Digital Number Plate System: A Tale of Missed Opportunities!

So, when I learned about Uganda’s Ministry of Works and Transport’s ambitious project promising RFID (Radio Frequency Identification)-embedded digital number plates, I was initially excited. This would have been a significant leap forward for our region’s transport technology infrastructure.

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