With the long-awaited Final Investment Decision behind us, Uganda's oil sector is entering a critical phase of infrastructure development.
Artisanal and small-scale miners in Busia and Namayingo districts are reporting record yields following new geological surveys.
Kigali's push for responsible artisanal mining is attracting ESG-focused funds from Europe and North America.
Gold mining at Okemer in Abim district is set to resume, following a high-level government meeting on March 31, 2026 in Kampala. Convened by the State Minister for Mineral Development, Phiona Nyamutoro, the meeting brought together representatives from the Uganda People’s Defense Forces (UPDF), the …
Uganda’s government will kick off consultative meetings in the gold-rich districts of Busia and Kasanda in May as it seeks to publicise a set of regulations that will govern the operation of mineral markets. While meeting the Parliamentary Committee on Natural Resources on April 1, 2026 Agnes Alaba,…
“Why do we discuss the same things over and over again and yet we see no change?” David Sebagala, a senior inspector of mines at the Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development, asked delegates at a mining sector tax dialogue in Kampala recently that sought to examine solutions to prevailing sector c…
By Kenneth Asiimwe As the voice of over 500,000 artisanal and small-scale miners (ASMs) across Uganda, I speak from the deep gold shafts of Mubende, Kassanda and Busia, the quarries of Karamoja, salt ponds of Katwe, tin plains of Isingiro and iron ore heaps of Kigezi. For ASMs are the heartbeat of t…
By Kenneth Asiimwe A quiet but unstoppable shift is underway in global mining. Mega-projects are taking longer to launch, costing more to finance, and facing greater pushback to operate. This is not a temporary slump. It is a structural squeeze, and it is forcing the world to rethink how minerals wi…
With donor budget support no longer guaranteed, Uganda continues to make deliberate moves to improve the performance of its extractive sectors to boost domestic revenue mobilization. Today, minerals and oil and gas are positioned as key sectors that must translate into broad-based economic activitie…
When Uganda joined the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) in August 2020, it chose to expose its most politically sensitive and economically consequential sectors to public scrutiny. Today the country has produced four EITI reports, with the latest covering the 2022/23 fiscal year.…
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