In December 2023, Uganda Bureau of Statistics (UBoS) launched the 2024 National Household Census. This was presided over by H.E the President in a ceremony held at Kololo Ceremonial grounds. The above-mentioned nationwide exercise will begin on the night of 9th May, 2024, and the next day, 10th May, 2024, will be observed as a public holiday to enable a large number of Ugandans to be counted.
In October 2023, the EAC Secretariat with French Government signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU). The objective of the MoU is to establish a framework of cooperation and facilitate the Parties’ strategic partnership to draw on expertise and support collaborative initiatives to sustain the EAC Integration Agenda.
In November 2023, Parliament passed the Petroleum Supply (Amendment), Bill 2023, giving the Uganda National Oil Company (UNOC) exclusivity to import and supply all petroleum products destined for Ugandan Market. The Petroleum Supply (Amendment), Bill 2023 is aimed at eliminating the middlemen in the oil supply chain that are said to be the cause of fluctuations in oil pump prices.
In this policy paper, corruption is sighted as one of the factors crippling human development, economic growth, and poverty reduction across the 36 African countries Uganda inclusive. No doubt strong and committed leadership is necessary if meaningful progress is to be made in fighting corruption. But as with any attempt to change the status quo, it is equally important that the policy be accepted and enforced by ordinary citizens.
Uganda’s debt has been on a rise since 2010, ever since the country changed its focus from poverty reduction to development. This paradigm shift witnessed a frontloading of infrastructure projects to address deficits in the road and energy sectors. This trend has continued with disbursements from the multilateral and bilateral creditors to finance COVID-19 mitigating measures. Indeed, COVID-19 has re-emphasized the importance of debt management.
Uganda’s debt has been on a rise since 2010, ever since the country changed its focus from poverty reduction to development. This paradigm shift witnessed a frontloading of infrastructure projects to address deficits in the road and energy sectors. This trend has continued with disbursements from the multilateral and bilateral creditors to finance COVID-19 mitigating measures. Indeed, COVID-19 has re-emphasized the importance of debt management.
This police brief does signify the links between effective governance, peace, security and development in Africa. It does make mention of how greater international investment and support for nationally led efforts, stressing “Africa knows best” as some of the best channels to resolve violence and building the capacity for peace and growth across the East African Community and the African continent as a whole.
East and Horn of Africa’s peace and security outlook still remains bleak. This is attributed to complex geopolitical and socioeconomic dynamics across the aforementioned regions.
This report does shed light on intersecting complexities in the global governance architecture. It offers a comprehensive roadmap for course correction in a divided world embattled by violent conflict, fragility, hyper-nationalism, refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs), pandemics, climate change-fueled crises, unchecked proliferation of artificial intelligence (AI), and growing tools of cyber-warfare.
Being third in series, the 2023 report authored by African Peer Review Mechanism on behalf of the African Governance Architecture (AGA) presents an analysis of the influences, causes, drivers and triggers of Unconstitutional Change of Government (UCG) in Africa. The analysis is identified by organs of the African Union (AU) and verified by an elaborate process of country targeted reviews.
