Zambia’s GDP Is Likely to Leapfrog: Why the GDP Rebasing Exercise Could Transform the Country’s Economic Profile

Uganda Oil Production Set for 2027 as World Bank Urges Reforms for Job Creation

KAMPALA, UGANDA – As commercial Uganda oil production moves closer to reality with extraction expected to begin in 2027, a new World Bank report emphasizes that the nation’s greatest opportunity lies in implementing structural reforms to translate economic growth into sustainable job creation. According to the latest Uganda Economic Update, the country’s economy expanded by []

“A Friend I Can Always Count On”: Ssekandi Salutes Gen. Salim Saleh as Kyanamukaka’s Long Wait for Development Begins

MASAKA DISTRICT, UGANDA — In Uganda’s drive toward economic transformation, few public investments have as direct an impact on everyday life as roads, electricity and other essential infrastructure. They connect farmers to markets, children to schools, patients to health facilities and businesses to new opportunities. Against this backdrop, Presidential Special Envoy and Vice President Emeritus [] The post “A Friend I Can Always Count On”: Ssekandi Salutes Gen. Salim Saleh as Kyanamukaka’s Long Wait for Development Begins appeared first on Watchdog Uganda.

EM Advisory proposes tri-pole economy to ease pressure on Accra

Policy advisory firm EM Advisory Limited has called for a fundamental restructuring of Ghana's economic landscape, arguing that the country's long-standing concentration of economic opportunities in Accra lies at the heart of recurring challenges such as flooding, traffic congestion, housing shortages and mounting pressure on public infrastructure. In a presentation titled Decongest the Economy, Decongest Accra: A Tri-Pole Economy Model for Ghana, the firm contends that while engineering interventions remain necessary, they cannot permanently resolve the capital's urban challenges unless economic opportunities are deliberately decentralised.

The Analogue Gap Putting Kenya’s Agricultural Supply Chain At Risk

By Lucas Molefe, Cybersecurity Expert at ESET The Kenyan agricultural sector accounts for 23.2 of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP) and employs more than 40 of the population. It is also responsible for around 65 of the country’s export earnings. Thriving since COVID-19, despite some downturn over the past year, Kenya is also considered []

Serbia possesses great potential for cooperation with BRICS countries — minister

The vector of economic development is increasingly shifting toward the East and the BRICS nations, Nenad Popovic noted