Someone in your WhatsApp group mentioned Airtel Uganda shares are up over 100% this year. Someone else says MTN is where the real money is. You half-listen, assume it’s for people with connections at a bank, and go back to your day. That assumption is the only thing standing between most Ugandans and a market … Read more
Beatrice registered her import business in January. By June she had a shop in Kikuubo, three staff, and a supplier relationship in Guangzhou that took months to build. By November she had closed. Not because the products did not sell. They did. She closed because every time she checked her bank balance against what she … Read more
Two things happened to Uganda’s fish export market within weeks of each other. On 10 January 2026, the EU’s new digital CATCH system became mandatory for EU importers submitting catch certificates. On 28 January 2026, Uganda’s farmed fish sector was granted EU market access for the first time. Exporters who already had EU buyers are … Read more
Quick answer: MTN charges UGX 12,500 to withdraw UGX 1,000,000 in cash, plus a UGX 5,000 government tax, UGX 17,500 in total. At Owino Market in Kampala, a secondhand clothes trader sends her supplier in Jinja UGX 100,000 for a fresh bale of stock. She dials *165#, confirms the transfer, and pays a UGX 1,000 … Read more